October 28, 2024—On Sunday, October 27, 2024, Round 8 of the All Japan Road Race Championship, the MFJ Grand Prix, was held at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture. Yamaha Factory Racing Team rider Yuki ...

My story got somewhat sidetracked, but around the time that the V4 prototype was completed, I thought we should begin gathering information on the U.S. market, so we hired an American market research ...

This series of entries was originally published in Yamaha Motor’s company newsletter from 1978 to 1979, some 20 years after Yamaha was founded. It was written by one of the company directors at the ...

Racing has the power to excite, fascinate and mesmerize its many spectators, but what is seldom seen and must be remembered is the enormous amount of dirt and sweat that create a successful team: the ...

Once an arrow is shot, it cannot return. After creating and selling the first YA-1, we couldn’t rest on our laurels because we still had a lot more to build. Keeping bikes coming off the line came ...

When recalling and talking about what it was like back when Yamaha Motor was founded, most people today are surprised at the large number of rarely heard of topics and events that come out in the ...

Automatically measures and corrects any misalignment in the dispensing position caused by looseness in the nozzle fitting and the precision of the nozzle itself, ensuring stable precision. Timers, ...

Design the triangle formed by the points at which the rider contacts the machine, i.e., the seat, handlebar grips and footpegs, and their respective dimensions to create a sporty, forward-leaning ...

Ever since Yamaha’s initial entry into the U.S. outboard market, I had been thinking the next marine product we should develop was a stern drive as it is the logical extension of an outboard. The U.S.

Engine Transom Height[mm (inch)] L: 516 (20.3) or 521 (20.5), Y: 572 (22.5), X: 643 (25.5) or 648 (25.5) (*depending on model) ...

Endurance and durability testing is absolutely key to ensuring engine reliability. Back then we mainly ran our engines on dynamometers for testing, so not only could we not really run them long enough ...