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TRACK MASTER

TONY Bianco was three sheets to the wind when the pub talk turned to flat trackers and street trackers. “The younger guys think they’ve just reinvented street trackers, but some of us older blokes have been building them since the 1970s,” he says.

One thing they agreed on was the ultimate street tracker would have to be based on the ultimate flat tracker, so the consensus was maybe a replica of an XR750 Harley- Davidson. “I said no, the ultimate flat tracker was Kenny Roberts’s Yamaha TZ750. The younger blokes didn’t know what I was talking about and

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