1973 Yamaha TZ350 Where Angels Fear To Tread - 3-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article For Sale

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1973 Yamaha TZ350 Where Angels Fear To Tread - 3-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article:
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Never ridden a Yamaha racer round a road circuit? Or at the dragstrip? Imagine the world\'s fastest lightswitch.

By now those of you who read a newspa-

per or any one of almost thirty publications

that deal with the sport of motorcycling

must know that Yamaha TZ 350s finished

first, second and third at Daytona, that a

Yamaha won the Imola race, and that all in

all, the TZ is quite an uppity little weapon.

If you have read our May issue, you know

that a crate-standard TZ yanked 63 horse-

power out of the unsympathetic Webco dy-

namometer and would have done still better

but for an overheating problem—which does

not appear when the bike is out running on

the track. A few of you might have mar-

veled: so much steam from such a little

package. If any of you were at Daytona you

certainly saw the TZs of Saarinen, Fisher,

Carruthers, Urbanowski et al ripping

around the high banks and screaming

through the infield and you might have won-

dered . . . what it must feel like to ride one.

I wondered exactly that. I spent a lot of

time at Daytona talking to guys like John

Long and Fisher and Castro trying to get

them to tell me what it feels like. The prob-

lem is that they’ve been riding bikes like the

TZ for too many years; some of its aspects,

clearly remarkable to you and me, have be-

come commonplace to the Ace Pilot Set and

do not for them bear notice or mention. The

TZ is what some of them use to make a liv-

ing, much as I use this typewriter. I do not

find a typewriter particularly distracting,

and so it is with the Ace Pilots and their

TZs. Tools, after all, are merely tools.

But the device of the Ace Pilot in the

hands and beneath the seat of Just An Aver-....

Original, vintage magazine article.

Page Size: Approx. 8\" x 10\"

Condition: Good

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