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The special construction of dirt track with the Yamaha TZ engine and a chassis adapted XS, top rider Kenny Roberts
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Yamaha TZ 700/750 in the typical yellow-black livery of the U.S. team, lead rider Kenny Roberts
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Imagine a GP bike of the past, two-stroke inline four-cylinder liquid-cooled, with no electronic aids available and in providing anything but tame a hundred Horse and over, robbed the extensive bodywork and has a high handlebars, no front brake and a driving position suited to the dirt track, that is that typical American who sees specialties turn the bike on the dirt oval tracks and consistently across a every turn. Now open your eyes and look at the pictures above: Once you grow more admiration for Kenny Roberts (Senior), who agreed to tame such a beast, even for a short period and between a gp and the other in speed (his line was more or less: Do not pay me enough to do it!
). It was then stated that the U.S. federation banned as a result of that experiment in the late 70's and 80 the use of weapons like that, rightly thinking about some kind of tragic consequences would have led authorize groped for common mortals to emulate King Kenny!
Now do not get strange ideas come, because we have only one Pellacchia!
Read more:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_TZ_750
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