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    Gus Kuhn Commando

    May 23, 2022 5 minutes
    Words by Oli ‘Two Hats’ Hulme
    Photography by
    Gary ‘Look At My New Camera’ Chapman

    SHELAGH AND RONNIE MOORE BUILD AMAZING Norton-based specials. Tritons, ES2-based café racers, sporty Commandos and all manner of marvellous Bracebridge Street-born creations have graced their shed. At one point the couple were considering relocating to France to build the café racers that the Gallic biker seems to love so much. Even now buyers will happily wait for years for one of their creations to cross the channel.

    Both are long-term motorcyclists. As a teenager, Shelagh was too young to compete on the track so she borrowed her older sister’s identity to get a sidecar racing licence and would travel hundreds of miles across country to Snetterton to be a passenger in a racing outfit. Ronnie was a

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