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Cycle News 1985 10 02

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ersinceour victo at ow prn ~.,~ .peop e ave een 1 ee ustos our tu secrets" ;.... · v Dennis Smith, 'Ieam Cycle'Iune 1. Replace stock FZ750 exhaust with one tuned for racing. J The most remarkable thing aboutTeam Cycle Tunes race-winning FZ wasn't how trick thebike was. It was how trick the bike wasn't. It hadnospecial racing frame.No one-offengine. No magnesium wheels. No nothing, in fact, except for a racing slick up front, a little suspension tuning and the obligatory racing exhaust. And yet, thisYamaha FZ won both the heavyweight superbike class and finished first overall in the twenty-four hours ofracing. All ofwhich not only says a lotaboutTeam CycleTune's ability to go fast, it says a lot about an FZ's ability to go fast. Or as Cycle World put it, theYamaha FZ750 putsout"enough power todemolish every sportbike in its class" "a The rest ofthe field • A atWIllow wouldn't argue. Built forthe fun of it 11 MAMA

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