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Team Allspeed Yamaha TZR250 part 6 Let there be…

A whole year has passed since we did our first 4-Hour race at Donington last year. It feels like we have spent all winter building the bike for its first trip into Europe.

Yet here we are without a working bike three weeks from the event. How did that happen? Well, the Yamaha Past Masters were attending the big Cadwell Park Sidecar revival meeting before Spa, so we had just one weekend to make sure the bike was ready to test there. When I say test, the bike has been raced already this season, but we need to see how it runs and handles with the lights all attached and working. I book Andy Davies and Peter Moore into the historic parades so they can both ride the bike and give us feedback on it.

So the long weekend before begins on Friday evening. We have all had a busy week, so we spend a couple

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