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Cycle News 1979 11 28

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feetly. Pullback bars. teardrop tank. st~pped seat, aluminum wheels and shorty mufflers create The Imege. Good strong power in a cold-starting package. lyon California freeway rain grooves. Worse than anything we've ever ridden. The problem, we believe, is in the tire tread pattern, and Yamaha should give serious consideration to changing it. Disc brakes add a clean look to the Image while contributing to the tech· nological facet, too. There's a single . disc on each wheel. They work great, although the rear one squeals about it. The KYB forks and shocks are not among the outstanding highlights on the Yamaha, but there's nothing wrong with them either. Fitting the Image, the shocks are chromed; forks are standard unpainted alloy. Exhaust pipes decidedly are a stylists' exercise. They begin with a halfBritish/half-Japanese downward curve' from the cylinder head, sweep back in perfect complement to the chassis lines and end in shorty megaphone-looking mufflers. The mufflers sound good, too. Won't blow the neighbors out of bed when you slide in after curfew, yet Narrow profile compared to four-cylinder bikes. 17

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