close this book"I was too busy going bush" : a teenager in the 1940s
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Talks about motorbikes and how the military "pinched" all the good ones. Details first bike he bought, a 1929 BSA 350, and the first one he made. Tells of the local motorcycle club and where they raced. Describes buying bikes from the military after the war. Talks about shooting, pighunting, deerstalking and gun collecting