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tale: At a Honda test
in the mid 1960s, frustrated that his bike handled like an overloaded wheelbarrow,
an angry Mike Hailwood grabbed a set of shocks from the hands of a Honda
mechanic, and threw them in the pond at Suzuka.
The verdict: Sure, why not do fifty more laps of Suzuka just to see how bad the wobbling gets before you crash? Hailwood, normally a cool and collected individual, instead grabbed the shocks off his works 1960s Honda and threw them in a pond that used to be behind the garages at Suzuka. Hailwood friend, mechanic and confidant
Nobby Clark was there and confirms it happened.
Related:
Carruthers: my
mom always made me back up when Hailwood came by on the Honda
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