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THE ORIGINAL HYBRID

Classic Bike1959 PRE-UNIT TRITON

In the fifties and sixties in England there were the Mods and the Rockers. The mods dressed in clothes influenced by Italian or French fashion and rode Italian Lambretta and Vespa scooters often adorned with numerous lights whilst the rockers wore white T-shirts, jeans and Marlon ‘The Wild One’ Brando styled leather jackets emblazoned with pins and studs, engineering boots and a white scarf wrapped around their neck. For transport they rode BSAs, Nortons and Triumphs.

It was from the Rockers that the café racer was born. They would ride

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