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Kit Palmer
by: Kit Palmer
Cycle News Archives COLUMN Riding RJ’s Yamaha In my nearly 40-year tenure in the magazine business, I’ve been fortunate to ride a wide variety of motorcycles, but I’ve never ridden an honest-to-goodness “works” motocross bike. In the day, mainly throughout the 1970s, it wasn’t all that unusual for magazine editors to get the chance to test a factory rider’s works bike. I’ve ridden the same motorcycle as a famous pro a few times but never a true works bike. That’s mainly because works bikes were banned in 1986, just a few years after I landed a job here at Cycle News, so m ...
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Cycle News Archives COLUMN Riding RJ’s Yamaha In my nearly 40-year tenure in the magazine business, I’ve been fortunate to ride a wide variety of motorcycles, but I’ve never ridden an honest-to-goodness “works” motocross bike. In the day, mainly throughout the 1970s, it wasn’t all that unusual for magazine editors to get the chance to test a factory rider’s works bike. I’ve ridden the same motorcycle as a famous pro a few times but never a true works bike. That’s mainly because works bikes were banned in 1986, just a few years after I landed a job here at Cycle News, so m ...
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