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Steve’s Yamaha AS1 Part eleven

few easy wins on a project such as my Yamaha AS1. Most of what’s been going seems to have been addressing years of abuse and decades of poor storage. Therefore I decided to play with some nice clean parts to boost my flagging morale. Instead of restoring the very manky switchgear that came with the bike, I’d managed to find some NOS bar switches for sensible money. Long story short, the seller only does sports mopeds and buys up parts lots; anything that doesn’t fit them he moves on ASAP in order to get some money back. Both units came bagged and tagged, replete with the correct screws. However, what should be an easy job was seriously

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