Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

The Mifuni mob

seriously doubt that either of you, my precious two readers, has ever seen, or even heard of the mysterious ‘Mifuni’. Only in existence for a brief period in the summer of 1977 it bore a striking resemblance to a GS1000 and dominated ‘street’ class racing at Santa Pod and took a clean sweep at the Elvington Records Weekend (records which mysteriously, like the Mifuni itself, vanished at a stroke one gloomy night). I owned and rode the ‘M’ bike and

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