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Offline jeffg

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Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« on: August 14, 2015, 09:42:34 am »
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2015, 10:04:42 am »
that was good

hes not riding a yzr500 though , that is an OW48 .
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2015, 06:32:53 pm »
On Avons.
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2015, 06:42:32 pm »
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2015, 09:42:31 pm »
Here is a pic I hadn't posted before. Notice the surface of the track; you can see the different lines commonly taken through the turn. K.R. is clearly in the groove. ;D
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2015, 07:56:30 am »
Quote from: bwaller on August 14, 2015, 06:32:53 pm
On Avons.

just as well it was only one lap then !
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2015, 09:43:42 am »
Quote from: simon#42 on August 15, 2015, 07:56:30 am
Quote from: bwaller on August 14, 2015, 06:32:53 pm
On Avons.

just as well it was only one lap then !


That's what I was thinking.
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2015, 07:31:04 am »
Even ballsier was that night at the Indy Mile in 2009 (I think) when he road the TZ750 flat tracker.
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2015, 08:15:26 am »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on August 28, 2015, 07:31:04 am
Even ballsier was that night at the Indy Mile in 2009 (I think) when he road the TZ750 flat tracker.
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I saw a vid of that too, it was the first time I heard a TZ750 run and it just blew me away.
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2015, 12:23:01 pm »
That guy doesn't pussyfoot around.  To not ride a motorcycle for a year and then get on a TZ750 Death Machine and rip it around the Indy Mile in front of thousands takes uncommon skill and balls.
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2015, 04:55:27 pm »
You should have seen the look on Ben Bostrom's face after he took it for a couple laps later....priceless!
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2015, 05:41:36 pm »
Saw Kenny Roberts in the subject line and that got my attention.   I enjoyed seeing Roberts ride again.  I have a print of him riding the TZ700 dirt tracker hanging over my couch.  I am smiling for the rest of the evening.
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2015, 06:05:33 pm »
I noticed Valentino Rossi in the Indy Mile vid too, I wonder if he took the TZ for a spin as well ..... or maybe Yamaha wouldn't let him get on it.
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2015, 07:18:05 pm »
No he didn't, and no they wouldn't.  ;D
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Re: Kenny Roberts rides YZR500 Laguna seca
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2015, 07:02:47 am »
Yeah.  The story is that Valentino was going to take the TZ750 for a lap after KR, but decided it was Kenny's night.  Whoever made the decision, it was the right decision.
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