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STREET RACING

“We hatched a plan to race for money anyone who was keen up the local mad mile”

ONCE upon a time there were two young men who were convinced that with enough balls and not much in the way of brains they could drink for free. So let me engage you in a tale of bikes, beers and big hairy blokes with patches.

It was the late 1970s and my mate Justin

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