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The first bike manufactured by Yamaha was actually a copy of the German DKW RT 125; it had an air-cooled, two-stroke, single cylinder 125 cc engine [1] YC-1 (1956) was the second bike manufactured by Yamaha; it was a 175 cc single cylinder two-stroke. [1] YD-1 (1957) Yamaha began production of its first 250 cc, two-stroke twin, the YD1. [1]
Yamaha was the first to build a production monoshock motocross bike (1975 for 250 and 400, 1976 for 125) and one of the first to have a water-cooled motocross production bike (1977 in works bikes, 1981 in off-the-shelf bikes). Yamaha's first Motocross competition four-stroke bike, the YZ400F, won the 1998 USA outdoor national Championship with ...
Yamaha YA-1 at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2005. In the early-1950s, Yamaha had to replace its musical instrument factories as they were severely damaged during the war. Yamaha was also facing the industrial conversion of factory machine tools that had been used during the war for the production of fuel tanks, wing parts, and propellers for aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy, such as the ...
1955 Motorcycles – made by Yamaha Motor Company, which started as an affiliated company of Nippon Gakki (Yamaha Corporation's name at the time) but is a separate company today; 1959 Sporting goods (starting with archery) 1959 Music schools; 1961 Metal alloys; 1965 Band instruments (trumpet first) 1967 Drums; 1971 Semiconductors
The Japanese Big Four are the large motorcycle manufacturing companies of Japan: [1] [2] [3]. Honda, which produces motorcycles since 1946 [4] [5] [6]; Suzuki, which produces motorcycles since 1952 [7]
The RX100 designation was originally used in certain markets for the five-speed, short-stroke 97cc Yamaha RS100DX produced from 1977. This was an RS100 (itself a 1976 improvement upon the design of the original reed-valved 96cc RS100 that was introduced to the United Kingdom in September, 1974, and to the US in November, 1974) [1] [2] with a front disc brake and a tachometer, and was replaced ...
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Indian's production was up to over 500 bikes by 1902, and would rise to 32,000, its best ever, in 1913. [19] [20] Indian produced over 20,000 bikes per year. [21] The oldest surviving Russian-manufactured motorcycle, the Rossiya, dates from 1902. [22] The American company Harley-Davidson started producing motorcycles in 1903.