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KAWASAKI NINJA 1000 SX

couldn’t miss the smug looks on Carl and Boothy’s faces as I loaded the Kawasaki’s panniers, but the question was whether they were laughing at my choice of long- johns or the fact I’d ended up with the Ninja 1000 SX? Sure, it was the cheapest bike among this trio, the least powerful too, and as for comparable technology and aesthetic sex appeal, it was up there with your neighbour’s granny wearing moth-eaten lingerie from the 1950s. Still, I was trying

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