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James’s Swift ‘classic’ racer

first clapped eyes on this bike back. It arrived in the office just like me – brand new, unproven and some months before we’d even sent the first issue of to the printers. It was a pre-production frameset for a bike that would become a stalwart of the SwiftCarbon range: the Ultravox. The bloke who brought it in and sat me down to explain it was Swift’s founder, Mark Blewett, a South African ex-pro who had

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