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16 You need…   … a Yamaha YZ250L… …in your shed.

Since the Japanese became serious about MX and started throwing money at it in order to win it wasn’t uncommon to hear tales of six-figure sums for works machines. But by the beginning of the Eighties such extravagance was beginning to tell and

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