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In 1950, Britain sported the largest motorbike building industry in the world, with 1 in every 4 motorbikes on the road globally being the product of the Birmingham Small Arms Company alone, though with this domination came a fatal complacence that wasn't prepared for the meteoric rise of foreign rivals from Japan and Italy, that, through their incredible mixture of comfort, speed and mechanical reliability, were able to rise up and destroy Britain's near monopoly on the motorbike market, leading its indifferent management to half-heartedly attempt multiple comebacks that only served to further seal its fate, and by 1983 all of the UK's motorbike businesses were gone.

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