Behind banks of snow along East Tudor Road, Lisa Albecker recently ran her mud-spattered Ford F-150 pickup through an almost empty car wash.

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Jezegabel's bike, built around a chrome-plated BMW R80 engine from 1984, stands nearby, ruggedly mud-spattered from a trail race in the south of France.

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The few walls still standing are spattered with mud.

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