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Wed 03 Mar 2003My Bike and I
Joe Scales, clinical nurse manager
What was your first machine and how much did it cost? Honda 550k circa 1980. It cost £700. I loved the leaky old bike. I suppose you could call it character. I used it to commute to my job in St Itas, Portrane from Palmerstown. I also travelled a good bit of Ireland on it. It was good on long journeys but it hated the wet (and gravel forecourts in Clare if I remember correctly). It was happiest loaded to the gills with camping gear.
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