The Classic MotorCycle

Negative thoughts can be bad news

Those of us who’ve owned umpteen motorcycles will be all too familiar with the purchases we made for completely the wrong reasons. They’ll probably include the impressive 650cc twin that never got out of first or second gear on club runs, the ‘fully restored’ bike that was nothing of the sort, the café racer whose riding position induced instant backache and cramp, and so on.

But there are also the bikes we didn’t buy for equally suspect reasons, and to give an

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