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LITTLE BIG BIKES

“Our mums feared the worst. Our dads were just glad to get rid of us for the weekend”

SIZE doesn’t matter, or does it? When I was a wee boy, I used to think that having a big bike was the only way to have fun. The bigger, the better.

So I aspired to more numbers on my side-covers until eventually they reached the magic 1000. I found that indeed the

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