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The world’s toughest road test, Motorcycle Sport, June 1974

Why would anyone go to Death Valley – the Devil’s Oven, the hottest place on Earth – in the middle of July? Fact: 134 degrees was seen on a nervous thermometer in Death Valley on July 9, 1913, setting a new world record.

…Nowhere in the world is as terrifyingly hot as Death Valley, the devil’s own dreaded furnace that has stopped many a modern traveller by welding pistons to

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