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K, so we have a ‘99-model KTM 380SX, and we’ve got a ‘99-model 250SX which is a Lee Hogan replica from back in the day, and that one’s pretty much a fully restored bike. The 380 is just an original bike. It’s got some Castrol graphics — we don’t particularly know the history of it but there’s a high chance it was an ex-Castrol bike. Unfortunately, there’s no real way of proving it. She’s pretty original. Got a couple more stickers to be made up for it to put on the rear guard. She was quite the basket case when I got her, as a lot of these things normally are. She was a bike from the Riff out in Penrith, and the guy who had it, he looked like he was from the Riff, so you can imagine the state of the bike. Nothing against Penrith boys — I

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