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  • Retrobike

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    Jan 20, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS GEOFF SEDDON
    PHOTOS
    JOHN DOWNS
    “I WANTED TO HAVE THE SOUND AND LOOK OF A HONDA RC 166 RACE BIKE FOR THE ROAD”

    BUILDING a road-going tribute to any World Championship-winning race bike is diffi cult enough. Using an engine four times as big makes it nigh on impossible. Luckily no-one told Queenslander Tom Dermody and his good mates Nic Comolly and John Boyd.

    Tom is no stranger to interesting machines, having accumulated over the past 40 years an enviable quiver of road and racing bikes, including a Yamaha YZR500 and TZ250, a Vincent-powered Norton, Suzuki RGB500 and GS1200 and no fewer than four

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