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Harley Davidson XR 750 Flat
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The XR-750 is a Harley-Davidson racing motorcycle
made since 1970, primarily for dirt track racing, but also for road racing in
the XRTT variant. The XR-750 was designed in response to a 1969 change in AMA
Grand National Championship rules that leveled the playing field for makes other
than Harley-Davidson, allowing Japanese and British motorcycles to outperform
the previously dominant Harley-Davidson KR race bike.[1] The XR-750 went on to
become the winningest race bike in the history of American Motorcyclist
Association (AMA) racing.[2][3][4][5]
The XR-750 is associated with the careers of racers Mark Brelsford, Cal Rayborn,
and Jay Springsteen, and was the favorite motorcycle of stunt performer Evel
Knievel.[6] An XR-750 was included in the 1998 The Art of the Motorcycle
exhibition, and one of Knievel's bikes is in the Smithsonian's National Museum
of American History America on the Move exhibit.
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