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Riding With A Ghost

Lapping Mid-Ohio on Cal Rayborn's XRTTThere was something indescribably spooky about swinging a leg over Cal Rayborn's Harley-Davidson XRTT at Mid-Ohio-and it wasn't just because his well-worn leathers and Bell Star helmet hung in ghost-like effigy outside garage number 20. The bike is exactly as Rayborn last raced it in 1972, with the same bubbled, cracking numbers, the same ancient athletic tape covering the footpegs and the same gouges in the right lower fairing from smacking the curb in Laguna Seca's Corkscrew. It was eerie to sit in the same saddle, grasp the same grips and peer through the same windscreen that Rayborn looked through during the last races of his life. It was like riding with a ghost.


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