http://www.influx.co.uk/wordpress/features/yamaha-innovations/ Cars, Bikes, People, Culture Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:40:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.influx.co.uk/wordpress/features/yamaha-innovations/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Mike Rochester Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:57:55 +0000 http://www.influx.co.uk/wordpress/?p=1215#comment-208 A wolf in sheep's clothing. I wasn't exactly hanging around, swinging along touching bits down through the bends when riding my Yamaha FJ1200 sometime during the late 80's, I thought I was pretty darned cool ... until some character on a TR1 came by as if I was standing still, except he was making a better job of the bends because he had better ground clearance. The experience rather took the wind out of my sails! A much more competent and exciting bike than perhaps its plain-jane looks would suggest. A wolf in sheep's clothing. I wasn't exactly hanging around, swinging along touching bits down through the bends when riding my Yamaha FJ1200 sometime during the late 80's, I thought I was pretty darned cool ... until some character on a TR1 came by as if I was standing still, except he was making a better job of the bends because he had better ground clearance. The experience rather took the wind out of my sails! A much more competent and exciting bike than perhaps its plain-jane looks would suggest.

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