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The terrific T5 twins

For readers who grew up in the 1980s, Vespa’s T5 defined an era. Love them or loathe them the Mk1’s angular lines were groundbreaking and its performance came as a surprise to many who believed that only 200ccs would do. Because it’s a machine that’s so engrained in Scooterboy culture it’s hard to accept how much time’s passed since the final Millennium models rolled off the production line. At the risk of violently ripping those rose-tinted spectacles off your face we’d like to introduce Jay Thompson. While it may come as

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