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Cycle News 2006 Issue 12 March 29

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he had to decide between a develop- ment of the 2006 customer bike and a revised version of the Emo bike- The Brno bike is a special RC2llV wirh a chassis and swingarm optimized for better handlint. To make the engine flt the new chassis, a new layou! engine was developed - the same basac V-five concePt but more compaca, and Hondas engineers definitely feel thar this bike has more potential than lhe old one- There is some confusion as to whether Hayden decided he wanted to concentrat€ on the new bike or whether he was told to, but neverthe- less he has pretty much stayed on the Brno bike. The actual size of the machine is almost the same as the

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