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SILVER SHOTGUN

BRETT Spinucci has been riding motorcycles for 40 years, but his relationship with them goes back even further. “My older brother came home with a BSA 650 when I was about eight and somehow conned my parents into letting him take me for a ride around the block,” Brett says. “By the time we got back my heart was pounding, I had a dry mouth and my knees were knocking so hard I could barely stand up. I knew from that moment that there was going to be a motorcycle in my future.”

He was true to his word, owning more than 30 in the years since, many in partnership with his close friend Ralph. “At any time we would own three or

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