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Kawasaki Motorcycles - Independent in Thoughts and Actions
By Daniel Levy
The story of Kawasaki Company goes back to 1924, at that time involved into metallurgy and the aircraft industry.
In 1949, they decided to enter the industry producing engines that could be adapted to motorcycles.
FIRST KAWASAKI MOTORCYCLES PRODUCTS Motorcycle Engines
In their line you could find a 60 cc two-stroke, as well as a 150cc and a 250cc four-stroke engines developed with technology from BMW; company whom with they had had relationships since their beginnings in the aeronautical industry.
It wasn't until 1954 that Kawasaki Motorcycles produced their first complete under the name of Meihatsu (a subsidiary of Kawasaki Aircraft Co.).
Almost at the same time, they also tried to introduce their own line of scooters to the market, but they soon realized they couldn't compete against the two giants of the scooters industry for those days: the Fuji Rabbit and the Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon.
And now before continuing with Kawasaki Motorcycles history, I have to open a big parenthesis…
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE HISTORY OF KAWASAKI MOTORCYCLES
We cannot talk about Kawasaki without mentioning another make that will definitely help Kawasaki become as well as Honda, Suzuki, and Yamaha one of the big players in the Japanese Motorcycles scene:
--> Meguro Motorcycles: better know in that time as the "senior make and the king of four strokes".
Meguro entered the industry in 1937. Having a good relationship with the government, the people at Meguro took advantage of the army orders.
Their first was the Z97: a 500cc rocker-valve influenced by the Swiss Motosacoche. It's worth mentioning this model was a success for the factory and the Z97 was in production till the fifties.
Along the years, Meguro produced some very nice 250cc and 350cc rocker-valve, single cylinder models as well as high
Business Expansion announced by CycleSolutions.net. With Thousands of New Products.
CycleSolutions.net Announces Business Expansion With Thousands of New Products.
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Motorcyclists will spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to customize their motorcycles to suit their personal style. The team at CycleSolutions.net, founded by motorcyclists, has been successful in satisfying motorcyclist customization requests. With this success, the small online retailer has announced the expansion of its product offerings from hundreds of motorcycle parts and motorcycle accessories to Thousands.
Glenwood, MD (PRWEB) January 10, 2010 -- CycleSolutions.net, motorcycle parts and motorcycle accessory retailer, today announced the expansion of its products. The expansion has increased their product catalog from hundreds of motorcycle parts and accessories to be now four thousand products. This expansion is due to the successful customer service and expert advice that CycleSolutions.net has provided for its customers. As fellow motorcyclists, our mission at CycleSolutions.net is to build relationships with our customers and in the end we give that personal shopping experience that is lacking when shopping online. Our customers know us on a first name basis. said Jim Noss, Founder of CycleSolutions.net
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As part of this expansion, CycleSolutions.net has gone from being a specific Victory motorcycle parts and accessory retailer to now offering parts for Harley Davidson, Honda VTX, Metric Cruisers, Sportbikes, ATVs and Scooters. Victory motorcycles is still going to be our core focus, what we have noticed is that most Cruiser riders will own more than one bike, so this expansion will add options for our current Victory customers, explains Noss, also a Victory owner.
People are like Motorcycles: each is customized a bit differently.
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Review of the Honda VTX ELLIPTICAL DRIVING KIT
Review of the Honda VTX ELLIPTICAL DRIVING KIT
Review of the Honda VTX ELLIPTICAL DRIVING KIT 55-332
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These Elliptical Light Bars offer all the features and benefits of a low profile light bar.They are designed with cast aluminum housings permanently attached to a formed steel tube without welds.All wiring is routed internally for a clean custom look.A switch is included that can be mounted in a side cover for turning the light bar on and off as desired. Kits come without turn signal adapters.
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Skull Headlight for Motorcycles (Chrome)
Skull Headlight for Motorcycles (Chrome)
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? Hi-Beam - 50W lamp (in both eyes)
? Lo-Beam - 55W lamp (in mouth)
? Jaw is adjustable
? Dimensions: 8-1/2 (H) x 5 (W) x 7 (D)
? Weight: 6.25 lbs.
? Manufactured by: Skull Enterprises
? Supplied with steel mount:
- Chrome plated.
- 3/8 vertical mounting hole to the tree.
- 7/16 mounting horizontal hole to Skull.
- 3-1/8 forward offset.
? Metric bikes require different mounting block, see mount section.
? This item does not qualify for free shipping.
? Light in mouth is just for show and not intended to be used as headlight.
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performance twins. All of them with a very strong British influence. Then and thanks to the commercial success they were living, they also launched a rocker-valve 125 cc for their low end range and a twin cylinder 650cc to accompany the already existing 500cc.
But it was in 1958, when Meguro tried to get rid of their British influence, when things started to go wrong...
Based on a winning prototype of Mount Asama (one of the biggest races that time), Meguro Motorcycles produced three nice and elegant machines with overhead camshaft: the 125cc E3, the 250cc F and the 350cc Y A. Unfortunately these bikes turned out to be too heavy and didn't get the buyers' attention. Meguro will soon return to rocker valve models.
Meguro Motorcycles remained as one of the top 10 manufacturers till 1960, but due to some bad decisions, as the ones mentioned above, the company started to decline and was soon bought by Kawasaki.
In 1960 Meguro signed an initial agreement with Kawasaki Motorcycles, and in 1962 they had completely disappeared.
….And this brings us back to Kawasaki Motorcycles...
In 1960, the company decides to give a serious push to the division of Kawasaki Aircrafts:
They take out of the market the Meihatsu brand, they build their own plant of low end and low powered machines and buy Meguro.
These brilliant moves and decisions made Kawasaki Motorcycles have one of the widest range of models in the market. Kawasaki Motorcycles could offer at that time (1960's) from a 50cc moped-scooter to a powerful, high end and beautiful 650 cc twin cylinder motorcycle.
Its also important to mention that due to their very own nature, Kawasaki Motorcycles has always played the role of Maverick in the industry and that a feeling of independence from their main competitors has always been present.
Since then, many stories have been written, many models have been produced and many races have been won on Kawasaki Motorcycles, the truth is...
Nowadays Kawasaki Motorcycles is one of the major players in the industry and following their tradition, they nowadays offer a wide range of products for all kind needs and likes.
You can also take a look at Kawasaki 2005 line-up . Check this page: http://www.kawasaki.com/motorcycles/
Enjoy the ride!
Daniel Levy @ www.Japanese-Motorcycles-Only.com
Note from the author:
Do you own a Kawasaki or any other Japanese motorcycle? Why don't you send me your picture and your story, I would happily add it to this site.
Just go to the Contact Page clicking here and drop me a message. I will get in contact with you ASAP.
Daniel Levy is the owner and contributing writer of www.Japanese-Motorcycles-Only.com . He loves motorcycles and Web development. For more great info visit www.japanese-motorcycles-only.com/
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