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Ollie’s ODDJOBS

Most people can remember their first bike, often with considerable affection. Mine was an MZ TS150 Eagle, which was the posh one in lustrous black with the rev counter and the chrome tank panels. It cost me £349.99 and I loved it. It took me everywhere, and I mean everywhere. I went from Land’s End to John O’Groats on it and won a long-distance award for riding from Exeter to a rally in Buxton. In February. It only ever broke down after I’d tried to do any work on it. And then I stuffed it into a grass

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