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our TO BE A BIG PRODumON.
It didn't take a collection of exotic after-market parts to win
the Overall Motorcycle Honors at the Parker 400.
All it took was a production 1983 Honda XR500R. The same
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>Of course, a motorcycle like the XR500R makes the word
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stock seem rather exotic. After all, no other
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It allows a higher compression ratio and
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ordinary designs. Which means more horsepower and torque. Honda's unique twin
carb system, meanwhile, provides smooth
power delivery from idle to redline.
And when a bike comes with a state-ofthe-art engine and suspension, there's
just no reason to change them.
So Bruce Ogilvie and
Honda's advanced RFVC
Chuck Miller didn't.
XRSOOR engine.
They merely
rode it as fast as they could. Which was very
fast indeed. In fact, it was fast enough for
first place.
Which is exactly what we expect our
production motorcycles to do. Produce.
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Chuck Miller & Bruce Ogilvie, First Place Open Class.
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Kent Pfeiffer
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BRAND NEW CRs END P IN THE
. SAME OLD PLACE.
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No matter how many things we improved on the 1982
CRs, there was one thing we couldn't improve. Their success.
So for 1983, the CRs still finish first. They just do it
faster and easier than last year.
In fact, at the Parker 400 only one motorcycle finished
ahead ofthe CR250R piloted by Kent and Scott Pfeiffer.
And that was the XR500R you just read about.
Which meant the Pfeiffers (another set ofriders who
happen to be racing a Honda for the first time) not only took
first place in the 250 Motorcycle Class, they took second
overall as well.
And while results like these may never change, they'll
never get old either.
