Vol. 1 “They say you shift your body weight to make a motorcycle turn...” Cornering is what makes motorcycles so fun to ride. Hmm, well Mayu, how do you make the bike turn? Do you have your own way of ...

IWATA, November 1, 2024 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces that it has commenced considerations for a merger with Yamaha Motor Powered Products Co., Ltd. (YMPC)-a consolidated subsidiary ...

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 ...

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So with this and similar failures, the Yasukawa Research Lab was disbanded in February 1962 and absorbed into the company’s engine department. Thereafter, the only project on which work continued ...

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 ...

Our next task was to increase yearly production to 300,000 units and was assigned to us by President Koike himself. Our product lineup still had no models above 60 hp, and looking at our sales network ...

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.

This was the so-called Pe-33 prototype prop mounted on the Ki-67. This prop was designed at Nippon Gakki’s Tokyo factory under the leadership of Matao Sanuki. Managing Executive Officer Nemoto was ...

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 ...

Our jobs weren’t just about developing motorcycles; we also entered them in races. The YA-1 dominated the top spots in the Mt. Fuji Ascent Race and then the stage moved to the Asama Highlands Race.