HiYa

In article <47d8d868$0$13861$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com>, CL 
<flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
>obakesan wrote:
>
>> speakin to someone here the other day they were saying (still) "ohh, well in 
>> Japan you can't get bikes bigger than 750"
>> 
>> I recall that there was some regulation about this in the past, but when did 
>> it change?
>

>on the Ninja 900 and the industry broke ranks the year that bike was 
>introduced ... 1986 or '87, maybe?  This was followed by a general 

I thought that the first GPz 900 was something like 85 so we're on the same 
page here. That was available locally?

right o


>restrictive exhausts to produce under 100Bhp.  The stupid red "we're 
>gonna crash and die" warning light that came on when you hit 80kph was 
>also discontinued around 1992 or a year or two afterward.

yes, well ... another thing which pissed me when I was there was why I 
couldn't take anyone on the back on the motorway. Stupid in my thinking, all 
the jap 'otomodachi' who weren't bike riders all said "abunai dakara" ... 
suppose noone's told them more accidents happen at intersections around town 
than on the motorway.

Is that numbskull rule still the go there?

See Ya
(when bandwidth gets better ;-)

Chris Eastwood
Photographer, Programmer               
Motorcyclist and dingbat

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