Classic Bike Guide

FRANK WESTWORTH

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Frank looks, in his sideways way, at the pastime of buying, then rebuying bikes.

WHY DO WE ALWAYS MAKE THE SAME mistakes? Do we never learn? Life can be perplexing...

Two years ago, almost exactly, I sold a motorcycle. Nothing unusual there, you might suggest, except that I sold it because I had replaced it with a similar motorcycle, a modern model from the same manufacturer which was better in almost every way. As you would indeed hope, progress being what it is.

I was entirely sensible about this, not

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