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SHOME MISHTAKE SHURELY?

Dear CR Classic Racer is my favourite magazine, however, while I’m not one to often make a comment on things, on page 53 there is a picture with the caption ‘Smart on the 750 Triumph Triple’. Sadly I need to educate you to the fact that this is in fact a picture of my best friend Bob Heath, and not a picture of Paul Smart.

This is quite a rare picture of Bob, who worked for BSA and actually did use to the ride the 750 BSATriple. Anyway I do realise this was not an article you actually wrote

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