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Originally Posted by Ferraripete
don't confuse the tame street version with a race version. the race bikes were fun and known to power wheelie @ 100 mph when they came on the pipe. greg esser use to tell me about the good times  |
No confusion Pete.
Miguel Duhamel held (and maybe still holds)the outright track record up here at shannonville on a tz250 (the real deal, not the TZR that shared its case).
Thats a pretty interesting fact given that not only had super bikes come into their own by that point in time, but also that Kenny Roberts sent Rich Oliver and the boys up here with a pair of YZR500s one weekend in one class, and his son under the supervision of Wayne Rainey's father, ran his TZ250 in our GP class. Thats the real deal tz250 though, yet Miguel holds the track record.
As for the TZR, aside from having raced against TZRs in a production class, why do I know about how closely related to the real TZ the TZR was? Well, because one of the guys got disqualified when it was rumoured that he was running a TZ motor in his TZR. Upon inspection the officials ran the numbers and agreed that he was running a TZ GP motor. It took a while to sot out but eventually a Yamaha rep set them straight and said both bikes had the same cases. (Not top end, but same cases. The street bike ran a GP bike case, not the other way around).
So much useless information in my head. Eventually it will all be gone and I can be happy
