Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

"I had a little bit of problem in Germany because I didn't get enough practice time because it was raining. They have a long straight - it's a real fast track, and it's a stupid track, I don't know, the Germans designed it - and they run you down this long straight. and then it's sixth gear - it's probably 160 mph before you hit the first chicane. They used to have a big tum there so you would have been going 160. probably 170 miles an hour tum there with guard rails, and it kept going. So. they put a chicane in it which made it naturally slower because you h

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