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Pip’s clear out!

ne keeps on reading the copies of CMM which pop through the letterbox, inevitably finding some items of more interest than others. Such must be expected since you began featuring more ‘buying’ articles on secondhand Japanese bikes and maybe less on the ‘mechanics’. No problems, there, enough on the latter appears to keep me happy, and one can always be curious as to whether a picture will ever appear of Scoop in which he looks like anything other than the prototypical Mr. Grumpy? He writes good stuff though. Recently though, Pip Higham surpasses not only himself, but caps the lot of

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