Browsing: Road Race Tests

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7R riders went just a little faster because
they looked nicer.
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Boom! Riding a Rocket: Their finest hour.
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Honda 500 V-4 Grand Prix Racer (1979) |

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Separating the 32-valve, oval-pistoned fact
from the fuel-injected fiction.
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Honda 750 Full Attack Interceptor (1983) |

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Under the old Superbike rules, street bikes
were hot-rodded into racers with special pieces top to bottom. Under the new 750
Superbike rules, if you want to build a race bike, you'd better build one for
the street first. Honda did that. For starters.
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Mike Hailwoods Isle Of Man Ducati (1978) |

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Sometimes a road racer receives a premonition
of defeat in a practice outing; Phil Read was so afflicted in a short Mallory
Park session for Formula One machines.
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The
two-stroke master pattern.
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Norton Commando Production Racer (1969) |

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We Sample A 130-mph Speedster, Try Ourselves,
And Track-Test Two Tracks.
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Yamaha TZ750 - The Bumblebee Special (1978) |

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Think Ultimate Overkill for the street.
Picture Massive Retaliation on endless lines of slow-moving traffic. Imagine
blowing highway dawdlers back into the Stone Age. See a street-going TZ750:
looks like a bumblebee, stings like a B-52.
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Showdown with the fastest roadracer around.
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