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Big thanks to Ralph Ferrand for the very interesting article about the JIS fasteners and dedicated drivers. I discovered the whole JIS thing about 10 years ago when I got back into bikes after a 20-year gap away from them. It still surprises me on Facebook groups how many people still don’t know about them, so hopefully your article will help spread the word.

One thing that amuses now is that when we were young and first starting out working on Japanese bikes we all came to the same conclusion as you

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