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Buying a brand new bike is lovely, isn’t if? You know it hasn’t been down the road, there isn’t going to ICS be any tacky ‘go faster’ parts bolted to every extremity and if it goes pop, you have got every right to march straight into the shop you bought it from, puff your chest out and give them a piece of your mind. But you don’t half have to pay for the privilege, especially these days. Never mind rail fares, the cost of new bikes are going up faster than wages too, and because of this, there is a particularly buoyant used bike market in the UK today

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