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1979 Yamaha OW40 Bob Hannah 1979 AMA 250 Nationwide & Supercross Champion
In 1978 Bob Hannah had loved a incredible twelve months successful every and every the 250 out of doorways Nationals and the Supercross title. Bob area an AMA file successful 22 motos in a row. In 1979, the OW40 was not prepared until the third spherical of the SX sequence. Bob and his mechanic Keith McCarty as quickly as extra dominated the 250 Nationals and the Supercross sequence. There had been some very unusual setups that McCarty and Hannah got here up with.
From mxworksbikes.com
Keith McCarty’s Feedback: In the future of this time suspension dawdle was reaching 12 inches plus and everyone was getting into that path. The scheme again was, in making actual big bikes, they wouldn’t battle through the corners well. We went inside the fairly a great deal of path. We might comprise favored to salvage our bike actual low and moreover comprise a lot of dawdle.
I had lots unusual requests as a result of I distinguished the bike actual low. The forks had been very particular internal. The huge fork caps had been to amplify the air potential of the fork, to alternate the spring curve. I really feel that’s thought-about certainly one of many monumental points that helped us rating. Bob had as nice dawdle as they did nonetheless his bike was an trek and a half of decrease.
Bob Hannah’s Feedback: We actually labored laborious to salvage the bike low and defend the suspension dawdle. Keith and I did fairly so quite a lot of discovering out inside the Tehachapi hills. We continually went there to check out. We diminished the bike and my cornering speeds had been up which capability. The taller bikes merely did not flip. For particular, we had been the one ones to maintain that. We had been moreover roar materials with a bike that made appropriate mid-fluctuate power (for a much bigger energy out of the corners) versus prime shut. I used to be roar materials with the dinky rear hub as a result of I didn’t make use of nice rear brake and the smaller one was lighter anyway. Our bike was moreover very gentle (round 200 lbs). Indubitably the very best enchancment we made, was to salvage it decrease. It gave us an enormous benefit over the competitors. As soon as we obtained the place we distinguished it, all I did was misfortune about successful races.
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BILLY BOLT’S WORKS HQV TE300
Decrease than two months since Budge secured the SuperEnduro title in dominant vogue, the British rider is now area to rob on spherical thought-about certainly one of this twelve months’s HEWC – the Xross Laborious Enduro Rally in Serbia. The Press Unlock from Husqvarna was devoid of correct data concerning the current machine. The internal speak is that Billy can be racing a 2024 TE 300 TBI machine, as in opposition to the TPI mannequin that was out there in 2023. It’s been recognized that the machine (inside the picture) is missing oil injection, the physique is present and whereas the throttle physique is roofed by a carbon fiber guard, it lacks the Switch Port Injectors of the TPI machine. We hear the manufacturing bikes can be oil injected, comprise Throttle Physique Injection and the current electrical power valve!
Questions: Is {that a} model present engine? Up so far chassis? A flatter saddle and present plastics?
TBI or TPI? The observe we hear is indubitably Throttle Physique Injected!
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Letti on his 2024 KTM 300…present physique, present engine, TBI Injected, Digital power valve
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