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Chain-drive
StoryJim Scaysbrook
PhotosJohn Ford, Keith Muir, Rob Lewis,
Sue Scaysbrook, Mal Pitman
The shaft drive XS11 Yamaha was never conceived as a race bike, but that didn’t stop it
winning countless Production races from 1978 – at a time when the Unlimited Production
class was the hottest and most ferociously-contested event on most programmes.