Australian Road Rider — August 2017

WORDS: NIGEL CROWLEY

PICS: iKAPTURE

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t’s said a picture can paint a thousand

words but the li le black cloud with

four diagonal lines coming out of it next

to the Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast

for Thursday could never have hoped to do

justice to the hammering we were about to

receive. We’d had the day in our diary for a

while and, like every diligent motorcyclist, had

been watching the weather closely. The whole

week was meant to be dry, but the tail end of

Cyclone Debbie had a much diff erent scenario

in store for us.

At one point, as we approached the top of

a long, steep hill, a solid white wall stretched r The Tracer is angular and futuristic to look at. We like that.

r The stock job at right and the Aussie version alongside. Note the much bigger screen, large-section tubular crash bars and additional fog lights. Oh, and if you turn to page 96 of this issue,

you'll see we've got one on long-term test. Neat.

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TEST REPORT: YAMAHA TRACER 700

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