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RIOTOUS RIDES

What fun to see not just one but two accounts of horror-filled spins back in the care-free 1970s in recent issues of RC. I really could empathise with Stu Thomson’s trip on scooters over the Alps to Grindelwald, and Paul Phillips’ recollections of riding an ailing Norton to Ireland in arctic

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