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AJS 7R (1956)

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7R riders went just a little faster because they looked nicer.
 
BSA Rocket 3 (1980)

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Boom! Riding a Rocket: Their finest hour.
 
Honda 500 V-4 Grand Prix Racer (1979)

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Separating the 32-valve, oval-pistoned fact from the fuel-injected fiction.
 
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.
 
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.
 
MZ Road Racer (1964)

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The two-stroke master pattern.

 
Norton Commando Production Racer (1969)

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We Sample A 130-mph Speedster, Try Ourselves, And Track-Test Two Tracks.
 
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.
 
Yamaha TZ750E (1979)

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Showdown with the fastest roadracer around.
 
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