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Cycle News Issue 46 November 21, 2017

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YAMAHA SCR950 SUPER HOOLIGAN RACER P64 Feature standard 7/8-inch handlebars so all the controls and everything went right on the Renthal bar we used. The subframe is very dirt track-like anyway. Howard McKee made a seat for it, I fabricated a tail unit from fiber- glass and we got it painted by my buddy, Benny Flores. That part was easy, really. The hard- est thing we fabricated was just the new left-side clip peg mount, and not much else." Flat trackers have got to turn left and we found, just in the garage, that SCR would dig its left peg into the ground, which is either going to wreck the track, cause a crash, or both. The so- lution thus came from Cameron Brewer at Roland Sands Design, who'd already encountered this problem with their Bolt they built a while back. "Oddly enough we just took a WR450 shifter," Jeff says. "It fits perfectly. Based on the WR450 shifter, we kind of worked out where the footpeg would like to be. Cameron sent us the infor- mation on the bike that Roland had built, and it was right there. We just modified it and now we have a folding left-side peg and Rennie (right) battles it out with Super Hooligan regular, Jordan Graham. Jordan was just that little bit quicker than our man, but we'll get there next year…

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