Classic Dirt Bike

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❝ The trademarked Ellgren moniker is actually a butchered amalgam of the name of the founder's son, Elliott Green ❞

And hello again from the column that helps distract you for a few surreal minutes from the realities of broken spokes, chipped gears and seized cotterpins in the more useful, practical, dirt-under-the-fingernail features in this worthy publication.

Was chatting on the phone to the redoubtable Alan Wright the other night when Wrighty let slip that he had unearthed a box of brand new 1980s Ellgren riding shirts, still in their polythene wrapping. And in true

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