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- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: 2-strokes (was: Re: REQUEST: short fella has a question
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 20:10:32 GMT
- Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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- In article <29004.89.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us
- (Dave Williams) writes:
-
- > Back around '74 or so, Yamaha was showing off a street version of the
- >TZ700, the F1 bike that was sooooo bad it could afford to give up 50cc
- >to the competition while still stomping it flat. Four chromed expension
- >chambers going into canister mufflers, styling sorta crossed between an
- >RD350 and a Radian. Yamaha mentioned it had been "detuned" down to
- >130hp or so, and weighed in at under 500 pounds.
-
- Fuel injected, too.
-
- They killed it because they decided it would have been too
- expensive; customers would have died of sticker shock and
- fallen in puddles of their own drool. Draw your own
- conclusions about product liability worries over producing
- a bike 40% more powerful than anything else then on the road.
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- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@pangea.stanford.edu
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