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Child’s play

What were you doing when you were aged 11? Probably starting secondary school, playing with friends, maybe even running through fields of wheat. When Lee Prescott was 11 he was building his first bike.

‘I had it all planned out from an early age. One of my first Christmas presents was a drawing board with a little parallelogram. It’s pretty much all I’ve ever wanted to do. My dad is a motorbike designer and fabricator so during the summer holidays I was taken to the scrap yard, told to

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