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BACK IN THE DAY...

This one is from Motorcycle Sport, April 1964, two selections from the section called SCENE. As usual, I have not changed the punctuation of this following at all, but I have quadrupled the number of paragraph breaks. I love this bit of text and the poem. I cannot imagine anything like it appearing in a more recent issue of MCS or MSL. Can you?

A tappet is the part of the valve actuation mechanism that allows for adjustment. A loose tappet is noisy and needs attention. It’s

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