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you want to know exactly how it drive only to find that I’d screwed after all, supposed to be a café
works, then you will have to ask up my calculations. It could be racer from the start). Then there
him. The one question you are made to work with a chain and was the runner-up championship
naturally asking is, does it work? sprocket—but the bike would place at Pecquencourt last year (a
Yes, it does. I could tell you how, run in reverse… I had it mocked show known not only for its wide
of course, but I prefer to maintain up in cardboard on the bench range of top quality European
a childlike innocence about such wondering what to do now when builds, but also for radical
things. Honest. Hector the Collector just happened motorcycles) and Best in Show
Okay, okay, I did ask him after to call by and asked, ‘Are you at the Kickback show at Prescott
all. So, young Ger Conlon, why did doing another friction drive?’ The Bike Festival. One gets the idea
you go for friction drive? “Well, answer was, ‘Yes I fecking am’!” that Tweety has only just started…
Dan had talked about hydraulic Anyway, Tweety—to no- So, what about that name? Dan
drive,” says Ger. “But I have no one’s surprise—took the Best explains; “I already had a yellow
experience with that sort of thing Innovation trophy at the RDS in chopper built by Ger that was
and I didn’t want to waste weeks Dublin in 2017 and then returned called Big Bird, so Tweety became
playing around with it only to find to win it again in 2019. It’s also the younger sibling.” I have a
it might not work. So I decided taken Best Café Racer at the Cork feeling that the little brother has
to convert the CX to chain drive. Bike Show in 2018 (which must just become the high flying star of
I bought in the XS right angle have made Dan smile as it was, the family.
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