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Down the years I have acquired defunct projects many times. Projects is the operative word here, in case you were wondering. I’m drawing an imaginary (but compulsory) line between a project involving rebuilding a bike and a special, which is something else entirely. If a project bike is closely related to an actual production model, a model for which spares should be available at

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