Here we have an absolutely amazing dragracer, a 1980 Yamaha TZ1500cc 8 cylinder two stroke! Two TZ750 engines crafted into a V8/W8 with a special 3 speed air shift gearbox with 280HP, with nitro injection taking it to 520HP. This crazy machine was created by the very talented Roland Broadbent. First rider and owner of this bike was Graham Dark. This monster is 3 meters long with the wheelie bar it measures 5.5 meter. It ran 8.3 sec quarters with 188 mph at the top, according to one of the former riders it could easily do 200mph quarters.
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Yamaha 8 cylinder dragracer
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TZ1500 drag bike
V8 1500cc Yamaha based two stroke formula car with the chassis built by the Penistone based sidecar legend, the late Terry Windle. The owner of this amazing car was Roger Matthews. He made the 1500cc engine, the 2 TZ750cc engines sat on a home made crankcase housing with a final driven primary shaft into the gearbox.
