Allspeed abeadi
Endurance Legends – it’s an amazing event centred around a 4-Hour race and this year’s event was very special. Why? Because among the 50 teams entered, 49 were on four-strokes: sensible given the fact that this race would last 240 minutes. But Tony Greenslade wanted Team Allspeed (yeah, named after the famous exhausts he produces in Essex) to play the role of David the giant killer who would mix it with the Goliaths.
Endurance Legends is where the best teams from the world of classic endurance racing come to build bikes and bash fairings. The teams come from across the globe: Team Wild Hogs made the pilgrimage from New Zealand with their Suzuki Katana.
Tony and Team Allspeed had a shorter journey from Romford. Tony missed last year’s event: he was in Vietnam for a wedding. The chap getting married was not only a good friend, but also one of his riders in their Yamaha Past Masters racing team. Being a Yamaha and a two-stroke man through and through, it left just one option, enter one of their TZR250 racers!
“We wanted to prove you can build a reliable and fast two-stroke,” chirps in Tony. “When the plan was first put together, Endurance Legends ran a Formula 2 class. From last year’s lap times it looked possible to run at the front of this class and sights were set high. Then
