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Having been actively looking for something to replace my 1957 VeloSolex (see last month’s column for the whys and wherefores), when I was offered a 1968 Puch MS50, I was more than delighted.

An MS50 is the first motorcycle I remember riding. Wind back to Leicester in the mid-1970s. I’m 10 and Sunday fun consisted of my father blocking the forecourt entrances to his garage with used cars and my brother and I riding round and round the petrol pumps astride a fiver’s worth of very second-hand Puch, until

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