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Offline heffay

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Re: Which year had the most HP?
« Reply #25 on: March 12, 2012, 04:08:41 PM »

WOW  :o  If that's a 750, then that guy has got to be what, 7 feet tall?!

 
Quote from: Hinomaru on March 12, 2012, 03:59:17 PM
1969 sales literature shows the quarter mile time as 12.6 with 68 horsepower ... 

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Offline Don R

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Re: Which year had the most HP?
« Reply #26 on: March 12, 2012, 04:12:05 PM »
All the magazine tests (OK maybe not all) but most of the time they got Pee Wee Gleason to ride the road/track tests. He was a little guy with a lot of talent and could wring more out of a bike than almost anyone. Someone once said 98 lbs and he's half nuts. Sorry, not PC.
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Re: Which year had the most HP?
« Reply #27 on: March 12, 2012, 04:14:18 PM »
Quote from: Don R on March 12, 2012, 04:12:05 PM
Someone once said 98 lbs and he's half nuts. Sorry, not PC.

Only one testicle?   :o Specially lightened for racing.
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