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Eventful times with my BSA C10

A letter by Alan Freke has reminded me of an event with my first motorcycle, a 1954 BSA C10L. It was 1962, I was 16 years old and purchasing my first motor vehicle, a used motorcycle.

My mother had suggested a bike, her parents had travelled around England for many years on a bike and sidecar. It seemed

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