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DOUGIE LAMPKIN

I was pretty much born on a bike. My father was World Motorcycle Trials champion in 1975 and I was born in ’76. When my mother announced that she was pregnant, the company that my dad rode for (Bultaco) gifted me a motorbike. The bike actually arrived before I did.

I was big into cars as a

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