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Photos by Tom McCarthy

Top Fuel motorcycle stand out Larry McBride, of Newport News, VA, has begun testing his latest masterpiece of a T/F motorcycle in preparation for the coming 2016 racing season which will commence on April 8 with the MANCUP, Exoticycle, Roaring Toyz Nationals, to be held at SGMP. Larry was forced to bring out the new bike after his old faithful "Blue" burned down following a motor explosion in September of 2015 at a match race.

The new bike, not officially named yet, began testing on February 22 and 23, at Orlando Speed World in a private test session with a few close associates on hand. This T/F bike is the first ground up creation by the McBride brothers from their shop Cycle Specialist. Every inch of this bike is the culmination of close to 40 years of Top Fuel motorcycle racing by Steve and Larry McBride.