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I enjoyed the archive feature in issue 52, the motorcycle shows in those days really were multi-discipline and the top off-road riders of the day would go along as guests. The early electric bike trials on an indoor course created from a few yards of dirt, some rocks and shrubs from the local garden centre,…

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With reference to your Curtis story, Yamaha were never intimately involved in the HL project. Hallman and Lundquist initially experimented with a Husqvarna frame and a standard XT engine before having Profab build them frames and Tom White supply them with a White Bros engine performance package. After Bent Aberg had proved the concept worked,…

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Thanks for the Elsinore Honda piece in issue 52, which I enjoyed. I thought you would like to see my 1974 Elsinore which I found amongst loads of other off-road machinery at AP Incorporated in Ashbourne. The Rickman reunion was also covered in the same issue and in a previous life I worked for Rickman…

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