You're a cheeky bugger Tiggy, wasn't me, I'm much better looking and my pipes different!
Good thread there though, riding some of those routes on the side of a bloody mountain with a foot clutch - yikes!
Quite like old American bikes, they have a sort of minimalist appeal that I guess the chopper boys try to re-create.
Also, I noted a couple of references to what appears to similar problems with access to areas that we have over here and look at the amount of space they have compared to us!
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