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 IF YOU KNOW your motorcycling history then you’re already well aware that the likes of Bridgestone, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha all made their reputations manufacturing smaller capacity machines that punched well above their weight.

“For two grand you’re spoilt for choice; significantly less than double that delivers either an older restoration or a really tidy original example.”

Initially derided and ridiculed, these tiny terrors

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