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CORNERING ETIQUETTE

THE photographer emerged from the long grass with his camera and its enormous telephoto lens around his neck, and shouted to me “that was good, Jamie, but could you hang off the bike a bit more?”.

“Don’t listen to him, he’s a wanker,” said my road-testing partner in crime, who was there for the photo shoot with the other bike from our comparison test. “He wants every shot to look like you’re a Grand Prix star hanging off the side of the

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