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’74 spaceframe JP Norton

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’74 spaceframe JP Norton: lean, mean – and with more tubes than London Underground. Last of the Commando-based works racers and undeniably a thing of beauty – but sadly a battleaxe v a machine gun when up against the new breed of two-stroke 750s.

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