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  1. Top 10 'grey' import motorcycles

    ... is another of those oddballs from the period when every Japanese manufacturer was intent on seeing just how small they could make a ... adjustable suspension. While making only 45bhp, in line with Japanese law for 250s at the time, the bike weighed only 143kg. Rare, great to ...

    Visordown News - 23/09/2019 - 00:52 - 0 comments

  2. Yamaha’s Japan-only 250s

    ... A JAPANESE-LANGUAGE press release tumbled into the inbox at Visordown towers ... that Yamaha has revealed the 2014 colour options for its Japanese-market Serow and Tricker 250cc singles. Not something that’s ...

    Visordown News - 10/05/2024 - 03:58 - 0 comments

  3. Moto3 Qatar: Toba takes history making win

    ... Prix as he ran a near perfect last lap to become the first Japanese Moto3 winner at the Qatar Grand Prix. Honda Team Asia saw their ... corners to battle it out in the run to the line, with the Japanese rider having enough power on the finish straight to hold position for ...

    anonymous - 23/09/2019 - 09:35 - 0 comments

  4. LCR Honda confirms Takaaki Nakagami extension for 2020 MotoGP

    ... sit out the final three rounds of the 2019 season. The Japanese rider – competing in his second season of MotoGP with LCR Honda - ... rather pointedly dismissed those assertions, claiming the Japanese rider was only quicker because his 2018 specification bike was easier ...

    Ollie Barstow - 15/10/2019 - 11:01 - 0 comments

  5. Discuss: China or India?

    DURING most of the 1960s Japanese bikes were seen as cheap transport and widely scoffed at by many ... CB750 (swiftly followed by similar machines from Honda’s Japanese rivals) establishing itself as a world-beater in performance, ... the same things today. On the downside, just as early Japanese bikes (and even more so, their cars) often struggled when it came to ...

    Visordown News - 10/05/2024 - 03:58 - 0 comments

  6. Daytona 955i (1998 -2001) review

    ... late ‘90s that Triumph genuinely felt it could match the Japanese. It couldn’t. Since this time the management has had a re-think and worked out that to beat the Japanese you have to offer an alternative, not a competitor, but the 955i is a ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 23/09/2019 - 09:35 - 0 comments

  7. Splitting the deck | 6 of the best WorldSBK wildcards… and 6 we want to see

    ... Torres in the process. Japanese giants steal the show at home Yuichi Takeda (Honda) vs Noriyuki ... starts though he is an annual wild-card entry to the Japanese MotoGP at Motegi, while a couple of stand-in performances at Valencia ...

    Ollie Barstow - 04/10/2022 - 10:33

  8. Honda CBR250RR Special Edition

    ... The new CBR250RR Special Edition is themed on the Japanese art of Kabuki, apparently. The pop-art style woman’s face daubed on ... doesn’t look much like it’s from a 16 th -century Japanese play to us, but hey, we’re not art critics. There’s also a map of ...

    Visordown - 19/09/2018 - 03:49 - 0 comments

  9. Top of the Grey Scale | Top 10 BEST Grey Import 400cc Motorcycles ever made

    ... Back in the early 1990s, uber-exotic Japanese-market 250 two stroke and 400cc four-stroke sportsters, which had been ... good. It couldn’t last, of course. By the late 1990s Japanese fashions and restrictions had changed while at the same time ...

    Simon Hancocks - 30/10/2022 - 16:53

  10. Austrian Grand Prix: The origin of MotoGP's European revolution

    ... Quartararo in 2021. Their manufacturers were of course all Japanese: Honda  for Marquez, Suzuki for Mir, and Yamaha for ... because the European manufacturers have taken over from the Japanese manufacturers as the leading factories in MotoGP. As well as Ducati, ...

    Alex Whitworth - 16/08/2022 - 16:55 - 0 comments

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