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The Flying KIWI

EVER had that niggling feeling that you wish you hadn’t sold a favoured bike in the past, or at least had a strong yearn to do it all again with something similar?

“I owned a McIntosh back in the mid to late 1980s,” Tony Bianco says. “It had been damaged by fire. I rebuilt it and rode it around for a couple of years.” Tony has owned more than 100 bikes over his lifetime, which means most of them got turned over to fund something else, and the McIntosh was no different. “Twenty year later, I wished I had it back, but McIntoshes

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