By Kenny Roberts, Mitch Boehm and Patrick Bodden
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t is without a doubt one of motorcycling’s most notorious and legendary happenings. And in the world of dirt track racing, America’s original contribution to world motorsport, it is undeniably the biggest, baddest story in the sport’s century-plus history. It, of course, is “King Kenny” Roberts’ superhuman performance at the 1975 Indy Mile on the legendary Yamaha TZ750-powered dirt tracker, a motorcycle so powerful, so brutal and so potentially dangerous to human existence — not to mention Harley-Davidson’s all-conquering XR750 — that the AMA eventually banned it from competition.
YELLOW
PERIL The real story
of Kenny Roberts, Yamaha’s TZ750 ’Miler and the 1975
Photos by Dan Mahony
Indy Mile
