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Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting!

Michael is a self-confessed Vespa man and since he purchased the Vespa 50 Special when he was a teenager he’s had plenty of scooters. “Some of the models I’ve had over the years I wish I’d have kept, but times move on and at the time when you sell them you think what you’re doing is right. It’s only later when you look back with hindsight you kick yourself.”

It’s athought and feeling I should imagine most of us have had, but we move on and we use the opportunity to develop other things, which in the past we might never have considered.

In Michael’s case, in 2003 he bought a Vespa P200, which he wanted to develop

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