Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

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Astandard MZ ETZ is lucky if it can hit a genuine 80mph top speed. So 130mph seems an impossible dream, but in the words of the song: ‘If you don't have a dream, how ya gonna make a dream come true?’

Goddard has already got his MZ singing into three figures with certificates to prove it from speed event organisers Straightliners. So it's no pipe dream. Though it does involve pipes in the shape of power-liberating two-stroke expansion chambers. The first ton-plus certificate came first time out, and that was on power-sapping sand at Pendine in South Wales in 2019. There, Goddard recorded 109.839mph, which

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