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MADE O'GUBBINS
Back Street Heroes
|May 2021
OVER THE LAST YEAR OR SO, MANY OF US’VE HAD TO FOREGO THE JOY OF SEARCHING FOR PARTS AT AUTO-JUMBLES, SHOWS AND BREAKER’S YARDS, RELYING ON EITHER THE HIT-AND-MISS OF INTERNET AUCTION SITES, OR TURNING TO OUR OWN STOCK OF PARTS, WHEN LOOKING AT BUILDING OR MODIFYING A BIKE.
Simon Humphrey at Total Alloys in Scarborough’s the sort of bloke who, like so many of us, keeps things in case they’ll come in handy one day, and those things are many and varied – from old handlebars that can be cut up to use as spacers and brackets, offcuts of sheet steel and aluminium, various assemblies from bikes that've been disassembled, and even complete bikes that’ve turned up at a bargain price. This little flat-tracker was, essentially, built up using said bits lying around the workshop.
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SIZE O
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