1974 Kenny Roberts Yamaha RD350 - 2-Page Vintage Motorcycle Ad

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1974 Kenny Roberts Yamaha RD350 - 2-Page Vintage Motorcycle Ad
Original, vintage magazine advertisement
Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each page
Condition: Good
We just ran the big bikes
into the ground
- KENNY ROBERTS
. AMA GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPION
Kenny Roberts is 135
pounds of nerve and gristle.
At twenty-one, he’s the new
AMA Grand National Cham-
pion, a title he won by amass-
ing an incredible 2,014 points
in competition against the best
professional motorcycle riders
in America. (No one else was
even close.)
Here’s something odd:
Kenny racked up a lot of those
points in road races- races
where he rode a 350ccYamaha
twin against a field of 750cc
"superbikes.”
That sounds like a mismatch. And it was.
F'or while a few of the superbikes had a slight
edge in speed, Kenny’s Yamaha had a huge edge
in handling. And reliability. As Kenny says,"It’s not
that Yamaha has more horsepower than anyone;
we just run consistently and keep on running.
Our 350’s are fast enough to keep up with the .
big bikes, and in some of the longer races, we
just ran them into the ground)’
In fact,the more brutal the race, the better
theYamahas liked it. In the grueling 200 milers
at Daytona and Talladega,they
swept the first three places.
Yamaha reliability also
accounts for another of Kenny
Roberts’ remarkable achieve-
ments: Of the twenty-three
AMA Nationals he entered, he
scored points in all but three.
You’re not supposed to be
able to dothat.
Reliability.Think about it
when you’re thinking about
buying a new motorcycle.
Because we use the same care
in building all Yamahas as we
use in building Kenny’s bikes.
And the same parts. For example, Kenny’s road
racer and our RD350 street bike share virtually
the same frame, transmission and engine designs.
And while Kenny Roberts may be the best motor-
cycle rider in America, he's certainly not the
gentlest. When we’ve
got bikes Kenny can’t
break, we think we’ve
got bikes that are darn
near unbreakable.
Someday,
you’ll own a Yamaha.
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