The Great Japanese Motorcycles: Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha

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For sport, touring and commuting the motorcycle in Europe and the USA has become perhaps the prime example of the Japanese takeover in areas of technology that once were the exclusive province of the West. Who in 1945 could have forseen that the few hundred motorcycles turned out that year by Japan would soar in the late 1970s to an annual five million? Perhaps one man: but Soichiro Honda would surely rate as a phenomenon in any society, at any time.
In this book his company's achievements are examined together with those of the less personalized concerns — Suzuki, Yamaha and Kawasaki—which make up the Big Four manufacturers in Japan's present-day motorcycle industry. In addition to this historical coverage, the author offers a minutely detailed technical examination of an important current model, the Kawasaki Z1300 six, as an example of the technological mastery of Japanese designers and engineers. He goes on to describe the Japanese manufacturers' penetration and rapid domination of all branches of motorcycle sport, from road-racing to trials, and in a later chapter gives us his personal choice of those machines likely to become collectors' pieces; while for those seeking comparisons or tormented by the problem of choice, the final section contains detailed specifications of Japanese motorcycles currently available — a range so wide that It is easy to understand their grip on the world market.

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