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JJ’s Jet 200

Not wanting to go over old ground, the full story on the owner, for anyone who is interested, can be read in his first article. Within the original article and the details on the owner, it does state that Julian says that he has no emotional attachment to any of the machines that he owns and that he’s slowly, but surely, working his way through the back catalogue of classic Vespa and Lambretta scooters.

This is something that I personally don’t understand; if you search for something you really, really want and invest a lot of time, trouble and money to eventually get it, to just then move it on is a totally bizarre concept to me. But to be fair, it isn’t just Julian and I’ve known several different folk who do this. For some it must be the thrill of the chase; for others it’s the pleasure of sourcing rare original parts

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