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(Above) Doug Chandler was back to his old self during the Laguna Seca test, feeling comfortable, confident and fast.
(Below) Mat Mladln was also fast, but he says he still Isn't comfortable with the feeling he's getting from the front end of the
new Suzuki GSX-R750.
By
HENNY RAY ABRAMS
MONTEREY, CA, JAN. 22·25
inters in Northern California are
unpredictable at best, and this
one is no different. Over the course of
the four-day test on the Monterey
Peninsula, the weather was mostly
cold and windy, with rain on two of
the four days. On Monday the track
was wet and the riders didn't get
going until nearly lunchtime. What it
meant was that the amount of testing
done was negligible, at best.
"As far as we're concerned, it was
a total write-off. The weather wasn't
condudve to testing," Yoshimura
Suzuki's Mat Mladin said when the
test ended, in the rain, on Thursday
afternoon. "We didn't really get much
done. It was a pretty crappy day.
Essentially, we were finished by
about three. It got too windy and too
cold to achieve anything. We were
here to test a new bike and do some
good solid testing and weather wasn't
good for stable results."
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