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Ninja Yama

An unusual feature of this bike is that it had 12 speed gears whereas 5 or 6 speed gears were the norm on bikes with 20 inch wheels.

Yama is Japanese for mountain.

I have been trying to find information about Ninja bikes without any success. Were they...

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Ninja Kokoro.

This was my first bike when I was 5 years old. There seems to be no information about it or the manufacturer anywhere. It appears to be from the early 1990s but it wasn't new when I had it.

It was a very agile and comfortable bike. I could ride it effortlessly...

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There hasn't been much fanfare over the 40th anniversary of Children's BBC. A few videos on YouTube but little else.

A bit of a shame really because it must have been a defining moment in the history of children's television in Britain. People of my generation took it for granted that Children's...