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3 years ago

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Writer:

Colin Goodwin | Journalist

Date:

5 August 2021

Dear Colin, Branded clothing (car or motorbike); acceptable or not? Jeremy

Dear Jeremy,

Not. There used to be a bloke in Guildford who owned a Ferrari F40 who had the uniform to match. He used to come into the pub wearing all this Ferrari branded stuff and I used to think, ‘You own one of the best sports cars the world has ever seen, isn’t that enough?’ I did have a set of Heron Suzuki bike leathers when I was young but I grew out of them physically and mentally.

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