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Originally Posted by a13x  The RC51 was actually Honda's only go at a mass-produced twin to fit the rules. Prior to that Honda was COMPLETELY using the rulebook to win by making small batch runs of racebike specials like the RC30 and RC45 (V4's). Go look up how many of those were made. THEY were the true response to the rulebook.
Yamaha aslo only made enough R7's to race. They stopped development of the 750 platform after the FZR750.
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Heck, Eric Bostrom's last ZX-7 was actually bored out to 850'ish in AMA.
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This is my point exactly - other manufacturers designed better bikes to fit the rule book, rather than building a bike and expecting the rule book to fit them.
At the end of the day, we, the consumers, won because of the rule book. We got RC30s and R7s, the manufacturers got to win races.