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Tanks for everything

I read the article “Petrol – The Truth” with interest, hoping it would give me some hope for the future. I particularly noted, with a wry smile, the line “fibre glass tanks are particularly prone to the effects of ethanol”. I would have been a little more strident – fibre glass tanks will absolutely, definitely and without a shadow of a doubt be utterly destroyed by the evil stuff.

I was the proud owner of a BSA A65

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