Is it also slow and does it break down a lot? They dont want you having an unfair advantage in the races...Originally Posted by scracha
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Is it also slow and does it break down a lot? They dont want you having an unfair advantage in the races...
The one thing man learns from history is that man does not learn from history
Calvin and Hobbes: The surest sign of intelligent life out there is that it has not tried to contact us.
Its easier to apologise than ask for permission.
Wise words:
The TV collector.
Meh, if they feel the need to exclude riders of Jap bikes then it probably not an event worth going to... ie: No loss..
Moped rider
Had to save those for the pinko commies.
Retirement with a cause
A; No , its a station wagonA: Its a cage
B: They have horrible front suspension
C: The gear box is no better
D: Often used as company rep-mobiles...
E: All of the above
I pick "E: All of the above"
Now THAT"S a problemYou need to get that sorted...
B; Its not a race car
C; its an auto !!!
D; it was a company car
I got a garage full of race bike so no room for a street urchin.
They all have a rope attached for re-use convieniance though.It's the honda only ones you gotta watch. Soap, shower, etc.
Steve
Im fucked , i was in the Navy and i owned Hondas..........
Paul.
Hardcore Biker
What a load of shit. The Japanese have brought us many inventions and innovative products.
You're thinking of the chinks! Now, they'll copy absolutely fucking anything...
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Born to be mild
EDIT: Arghh feck it! kwaka_crasher had the same idea and beat me to it. Ah well, that's life I guess. Can't be arsed removing my post now after all the work it took removing the irrelevancies
Here is an incomplete list. If you look near the bottom you'll even see a motorcycle reference. Enjoy.
Automatic power loom
Sakichi Toyoda invented numerous weaving devices. His most famous invention was the automatic power loom in which he implemented the principle of Jidoka (autonomation or autonomous automation). It was the 1924 Toyoda Automatic Loom, Type G, a completely automatic high-speed loom featuring the ability to change shuttles without stopping and dozens of other innovations. At the time it was the world's most advanced loom, delivering a dramatic improvement in quality and a twenty-fold increase in productivity.[78]
Autonomation (autonomous automation)
Sakichi Toyoda's most famous invention was the automatic power loom in which he implemented the principle of Jidoka (autonomation or autonomous automation). The principle of Jidoka, which means that the machine stops itself when a problem occurs, became later a part of the Toyota Production System.[citation needed]
Chi Machine
A device created by Japanese scientist Dr. Shizuo Inoue. It holds US FDA approval as a Class 1 Medical Device Regulation #890.5660.[79] It apparently oxygenates the body via "passive aerobic exercise", which the manufacturer claims stimulates the lymphatic system and supposedly enables detoxification.[citation needed]
Cold fusion methods
Shunpei Yamazaki was granted patents for several cold nuclear fusion methods, including the "Electrochemical Method for Creating Nuclear Fusion", the "Plasma Method for Creating Nuclear Fusion", and an "Electrode for Use in Nuclear Fusion".[80]
Cultured pearl
Primarily the result of discoveries made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the Japanese researchers Tokishi Nishikawa and Tatsuhei Mise. What they discovered was a specific technique for inducing the creation of a round pearl within the gonad of an oyster. This technique was patented by Kokichi Mikimoto shortly thereafter, and the first harvest of rounds was produced in 1916. This discovery revolutionized the pearl industry, because it allowed pearl farmers to reliably cultivate large numbers of high-quality pearls.[citation needed]
Japanese typewriter
The first typewriter to be based on the Japanese writing system was invented by Kyota Sugimoto in 1929.[81]
TohoScope
Toho Scope is an anamorphic lens system developed in the late 1950s by Toho Studios.[citation needed]
Audio technology
Analog modeling synthesizer
A synthesizer that emulates the sounds of traditional analog synthesizers using digital signal processing components. The earliest was Korg's Prophecy in the mid-1990s.[citation needed]
Compact Disc player
Sony released the world's first CD Player, called the CDP-101,[82] in 1982, utilising a slide-out tray design for the Compact Disc.
Digital audio
Digital recording of classical and jazz music began in the early 1970s, pioneered by Japanese companies such as Denon, and was soon adopted by British companies such as the BBC and record label Decca.[citation needed]
Digital synthesizer
The Yamaha DX7 in 1983 was the first stand-alone all-digital synthesizer.[83] It became indispensable to many music artists of the 1980s.[84]
Digital waveguide synthesis
Developed in 1989 by Yamaha alongside Stanford University
PCM adaptor
The Sony PCM-1600 was the first video-based 16-bit PCM recorder (using a special U-matic VCR for a transport), and continues in its 1610 and 1630 incarnations. The 1600 was one of the first systems used for mastering audio compact discs in the early 1980s by many major record labels.[citation needed]
Phase distortion synthesis
A synthesis method introduced in 1984 by Casio in its CZ range of synths.
Physical modelling synthesis
The first commercially available physical modelling synthesizer was Yamaha's VL-1 in 1994.[85]
Polyphony
In 1976, the first true music synthesizers to offer polyphony had begun to appear, in the form of the Yamaha GX1, CS-50, CS-60 and CS-80.
Portable CD player
Sony's Discman, released in 1984, was the first portable CD player.[86]
Vowel-Consonant synthesis
A type of hybrid Digital-analogue synthesis first employed by the early Casiotone keyboards in the early 1980s.
Walkman
In 1979, the Walkman was introduced by Sony, in the form of the world's first portable music player. Though it was originally invented by Andreas Pavel in 1972. Sony refused to acknowledge that he was the inventor of the device, but after numerous trials the court ruled in favour of Pavel and forced Sony to pay royalties.
Aviation
Biplane
Chūhachi Ninomiya's "Tamamushi-gata hikouki"("Jewel beetle type flyer") in 1893 is the earliest known biplane.[87]
Landing gear
Chūhachi Ninomiya's "Karasu-gata mokei hikouki" ("Crow-type model aircraft") in 1891 had three wheels as landing gear.[citation needed]
Pusher propeller
Invented by Chūhachi Ninomiya in 1891 as part of his "Karasu-gata mokei hikouki" ("Crow-type model aircraft"). The four-blade pusher propeller, inspired from a bamboo-copter, was driven by a rubber band. His "Tamamushi-gata hikouki"("Jewel beetle type flyer") in 1893 was also equipped with a four-blade pusher propeller.[citation needed]
Stabilizer
Chūhachi Ninomiya's "Karasu-gata mokei hikouki" ("Crow-type model aircraft") in 1891 was the earliest to be equipped with a horizontal stabilizer at its tail and a vertical stabilizer at its nose.[citation needed]
Tailless aircraft
Chūhachi Ninomiya's "Tamamushi-gata hikouki"("Jewel beetle type flyer") in 1893 is the earliest known tailless aircraft.[87]
Calculators
Credit-card-sized calculator
The first credit-card-sized calculator was the Casio Mini Card LC-78, of 1978, which could run for months of normal use on button cells.
Electric compact calculator
The Casio Computer Co., in Japan, released the Model 14-A calculator in 1957, which was the world's first all-electric compact calculator.
Graphing calculator
The first graphing calculator was the Casio fx-7000G, released in 1985. Many more Casio graphic calculators have been released since then.
Pocket calculator
The first portable calculators appeared in Japan in 1970, and were soon marketed around the world. These included the Sanyo ICC-0081 "Mini Calculator", the Canon Pocketronic, and the Sharp QT-8B "micro Compet". Sharp put in great efforts in size and power reduction and introduced in January 1971 the Sharp EL-8, also marketed as the Facit 1111, which was close to being a pocket calculator. It weighed about one pound, had a vacuum fluorescent display, and rechargeable NiCad batteries. The first truly pocket-sized electronic calculator was the Busicom LE-120A "HANDY", which was marketed early in 1971.[88] Made in Japan, this was the first calculator to use an LED display, the first hand-held calculator to use a single integrated circuit (then proclaimed as a "calculator on a chip"), and the first electronic calculator to run off replaceable batteries. Using four AA-size cells, the LE-120A measures 4.9x2.8x0.9 in (124x72x24 mm).
Solar-powered calculator
With low power consumption came the possibility of using solar cells as the power source, realised around 1978 by the Sharp EL-8026.
Cameras
Camcorder
In 1982, Sony released the first professional camcorder, named the Betacam.
Digital camera
The first true digital camera that recorded images as a computerized file was the Fuji DS-1P, in 1988. It recorded to a 16 MB internal memory card that used a battery to keep the data in memory.
Digital single-lens reflex camera
On August 25, 1981 Sony unveiled a prototype of the first still video camera, the Sony Mavica. This camera was an analog electronic camera that featured interchangeable lenses and a SLR viewfinder. At Photokina in 1986, Nikon revealed a prototype analog electronic still SLR camera, the Nikon SVC, the first digital SLR. The prototype body shared many features with the N8008.[89] In 1999, Nikon announced the Nikon D1, the first DSLR to truly compete with, and begin to replace, film cameras in the professional photojournalism and sports photography fields. This camera was able to use current autofocus Nikkor lenses available at that time for the Nikon film series cameras, and was also able to utilize the older Nikon and similar, independent mount lenses designed for those cameras. A combination of price, speed, and image quality was the beginning of the end of 35 mm film for these markets.
Handheld electronic camera
Handheld electronic cameras, in the sense of a device meant to be carried and used like a handheld film camera, appeared in 1981 with the demonstration of the Sony Mavica (Magnetic Video Camera). This was an analog camera, in that it recorded pixel signals continuously, as videotape machines did, without converting them to discrete levels; it recorded television-like signals to a 2 × 2 inch Video Floppy. Analog electronic cameras do not appear to have reached the market until 1986 with the Canon RC-701. Canon demonstrated a prototype of this model at the 1984 Summer Olympics, printing the images in the Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper.
Domestic appliances
Electric rice cooker
Invented by designers at the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in the late 1940s.[90]
RFIQin
An automatic cooking device, invented by Mamoru Imura and patented in 2007.
Electronics
Blue laser
Following the research of Professor Isamu Akasaki's group, the first commercially viable blue laser was invented by Shuji Nakamura while working at Nichia Corporation
Glass integrated circuit
Shunpei Yamazaki invented an integrated circuit made entirely from glass and with an 8-bit central processing unit.
Indium gallium nitride
Indium gallium nitride (InGaN) is a semiconductor invented by Shuji Nakamura.
Microprocessor
The world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, was designed by Masatoshi Shima of Busicom alongside Marcian Hoff and Federico Faggin.
Personal digital assistant
The first PDA is considered to be the Casio PF-3000 released in May 1983.
Plastic central processing unit
Shunpei Yamazaki invented a central processing unit made entirely from plastic
Videocassette recorder
The first machines (the VP-1100 videocassette player and the VO-1700 videocassette recorder) to use the first videocassette format, U-matic, was introduced by Sony in 1971.
Game controllers
Analog stick
In 1996, Nintendo introduced the first analog thumbstick on the Nintendo 64 controller. Since then, all major video game console controllers have included analog sticks.
D-pad
In 1982, Nintendo's Gunpei Yokoi elaborated on the idea of a circular pad, shrinking it and altering the points into the familiar modern "cross" design for control of on-screen characters in their Donkey Kong handheld game. It came to be known as the "D-pad".[94] The design proved to be popular for subsequent Game & Watch titles. This particular design was patented. In 1984, the Japanese company Epoch created a handheld game system called the Epoch Game Pocket Computer. It featured a D-pad, but it was not popular for its time and soon faded. Initially intended to be a compact controller for the Game & Watch handheld games alongside the prior non-connected style pad, Nintendo realized that Gunpei's design would also be appropriate for regular consoles, and Nintendo made the D-pad the standard directional control for the hugely successful Nintendo Entertainment System under the name "+Control Pad". All major video game consoles since have had a D-pad of some shape on their controllers.
Dance pad
The first dance pad was the Power Pad, a floor mat game controller for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is a gray mat with twelve pressure-sensors embedded between two layers of flexible plastic. It was originally developed by Bandai
Force feedback
Introduced for game controllers by Nintendo's Rumble Pak, for the Nintendo 64 controller.
Motion-sensing controller
Invented by Nintendo for the Wii, the Wii Remote is the first controller with motion-sensing capability. It was a candidate for Time's Best Invention of 2006.
Metallurgy
Alnico
Alnico magnets were developed from the MKM steel invented by Tokuhichi Mishima.
KS steel
Kotaro Honda invented the KS steel (initials from Kichiei Sumitomo), which is a type of magnetic resistant steel that is three times more resistant than tungsten steel.
Magnetic steel
Kotaro Honda invented the KS steel, a type of magnetic resistant steel that is three times more resistant than tungsten steel. In 1931, Tokuhichi Mishima discovered that a strongly magnetic steel could be created by adding aluminum to non-magnetic nickel steel
MKM steel
An alloy containing nickel and aluminum, it was invented in 1931 by the Japanese metallurgist Tokuhichi Mishima. While conducting research into the properties of nickel, Mishima discovered that a strongly magnetic steel could be created by adding aluminum to non-magnetic nickel steel
Robotics
Android
The world's first android, DER 01, was developed by a Japanese research group, The Intelligent Robotics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Ishiguro at Osaka University, and Kokoro Co., Ltd. The Actroid is a humanoid robot with strong visual human-likeness developed by Osaka University and manufactured by Kokoro Company Ltd. (the animatronics division of Sanrio). It was first unveiled at the 2003 International Robot Exposition in Tokyo, Japan. The Actroid woman is a pioneer example of a real machine similar to imagined machines called by the science fiction terms android or gynoid, so far used only for fictional robots. It can mimic such lifelike functions as blinking, speaking, and breathing. The "Repliee" models are interactive robots with the ability to recognise and process speech and respond in kind.
Hybrid assistive limb
The HAL 5 is the first hybrid assistive limb, a powered exoskeleton suit currently in development by Tsukuba University of Japan.
Landmine-clearing robot
Shigeo Hirose is involved in work with the United Nations to develop a remotely controlled robot capable of clearing landmines.
Ninja robot
Invented by Shigeo Hirose, it is capable of climbing buildings and a seven-ton robot capable of climbing mountainous slopes with the aim of installing bolts in the ground so as to prevent landslides.
Storage technology
Blu-ray Disc
After Shuji Nakamura's invention of practical blue laser diodes,[102] Sony started two projects applying the new diodes: UDO (Ultra Density Optical) and DVR Blue (together with Pioneer), a format of rewritable discs which would eventually become the Blu-ray Disc.[
Compact Disc
Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976. In September 1978, they demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150 minute playing time, and with specifications of 44,056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, cross-interleaved error correction code, that were similar to those of the Compact Disc they introduced in 1982.
Digital Audio Tape
A signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony in the mid 1980s.
DVD
The DVD optical disc format was developed by Sony alongside Philips.
Flash memory
Flash memory (both NOR and NAND types) was invented by Dr. Fujio Masuoka while working for Toshiba circa 1980. According to Toshiba, the name "flash" was suggested by Dr. Masuoka's colleague, Mr. Shoji Ariizumi, because the erasure process of the memory contents reminded him of a flash of a camera. Dr. Masuoka presented the invention at the IEEE 1984 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco, California.
Floppy disk
A Japanese inventor, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, invented the core floppy disk technology and, in 1952, registered a Japanese patent for his [1]. He later licensed 16 patents to IBM for the creation of the floppy disk.
Heat-assisted magnetic recording
HAMR was developed by Fujitsu in 2006 so that it could achieve one terabit per square inch densities.[
Memory card
The first flash memory card to be released was the JEIDA memory card by the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association.
Perpendicular recording
A technology for data recording on hard disks. It was first proven advantageous in 1976 by Shun-ichi Iwasaki, then professor of Tohoku University in Japan, and first commercially implemented in 2005.
Video cassette
In 1969, Sony introduced a prototype for the first video cassette, the 3/4" (1.905 cm) composite U-matic system, which Sony introduced commercially in September 1971 after working out industry standards with other manufacturers. Sony later refined it to Broadcast Video U-matic or BVU
Video Floppy
A video storage medium in the form of a 2" magnetic floppy disk used to store still frames of analog composite video. Video floppies were first developed by Sony in 1981 for their Mavica and later used by Panasonic and Canon for their still video cameras introduced in the late 1980s, such as the Canon Xapshot from 1988.
Timekeeping
A Seiko quartz wristwatch using the chronograph function (movement 7T92).
Quartz wristwatch
The world's first quartz wristwatch was revealed in 1967: the prototype of the Astron revealed by Seiko in Japan, where it was in development since 1958. It was eventually released to the public in 1969.[108] The inherent accuracy and low cost of production has resulted in the proliferation of quartz clocks and watches since that time. By the 1980s quartz technology had taken over applications such as kitchen timers, alarm clocks, bank vault time locks, and time fuzes on munitions, from earlier mechanical balance wheel movements.[
Quartz chronograph
Invented by Seiko in the 1970s.
Transport
Bullet train
The world's first high volume capable (initially 12 car maximum) "high-speed train" was Japan's Tōkaidō Shinkansen, that officially opened in October 1964, with construction commencing in April 1959.[109] The 0 Series Shinkansen, built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, achieved maximum passenger service speeds of 210 km/h (130 mph) on the Tokyo–Nagoya–Kyoto–Osaka route, with earlier test runs hitting top speeds in 1963 at 256 km/h.
Dedicated high-speed rail lines
Japan was the first country to build dedicated railway lines for high speed travel. Because of the mountainous terrain, the existing network consisted of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge lines, which generally took indirect routes and could not be adapted to higher speeds. Consequently, Japan had a greater need for new high speed lines than countries where the existing standard gauge or broad gauge rail system had more upgrade potential.
Electronically-controlled continuously variable transmission
In early 1987, Subaru launched the Justy in Tokyo with an electronically-controlled continuously variable transmission (ECVT) developed by Fuji Heavy Industries, which owns Subaru.
Kei car
A category of small automobiles, including passenger cars, vans, and pickup trucks. They are designed to exploit local tax and insurance relaxations, and in more rural areas are exempted from the requirement to certify that adequate parking is available for the vehicle. These standards originated in the times following the end of the Second World War, when most Japanese could not afford a full-sized car yet had enough to buy a motorcycle. To promote the growth of the car industry, as well as to offer an alternative delivery method to small business and shop owners, kei car standards were created.
Visual display units
Aperture grille
The first patented aperture grille televisions were manufactured by Sony in the late 1960s under the Trinitron brand name, which the company carried over to its line of CRT computer monitors. Subsequent designs, either licensed from Sony or manufactured after the patent's expiration, tend to use the -tron suffix, such as Mitsubishi's DiamondTron and ViewSonic's SonicTron. Today, Trinitron displays are still produced for markets such as Bangladesh, China, India and Pakistan.
Flat panel display
The first flat-panel displays were the flat CRTs used by Sony in their Watchman series (the FD-210 was introduced in 1982). One of the last flat-CRT models was the FD-120A. The CRT in these units was flat with the electron gun located roughly at right angles below the display surface thus requiring sophisticated electronics to create an undistorted picture free from effects such as keystoning.
Handheld colour television
In 1990, a color model of the Sony Watchman with an active-matrix LCD was released.
Handheld liquid crystal display television
In 1990, a color model of the Sony Watchman with an active-matrix LCD was released.
Liquid crystal display television
In 1988, Sharp Corporation introduced the first commercial LCD television, a 14" model.
Mechanical television
In the 1920s, the Japanese electrical scientist Yasujiro Niwa invented a simple device for phototelegraphic transmission through cable and later via radio, a precursor to mechanical television.
Plasma colour display
In 1992, Fujitsu introduced the world's first full-color plasma display. It was a hybrid, based upon the plasma display created at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NHK STRL, achieving superior brightness.
Plasma television
In 1997, Pioneer released the first plasma television.
Pocket television
In 1982, Sony released the first television that could fit in a pocket: the Watchman; a pun on Walkman.
Weapons
Fire balloon
A fire balloon, or balloon bomb, was an experimental weapon launched by Japan from 1944 to 1945, during World War II.
Katana
The katana originated in the Muromachi period (1392–1573) as a result of changing battle conditions requiring faster response times. The katana facilitated this by being worn with the blade facing up, which allowed the samurai to draw and cut their enemy in a single motion. Previously, the curved sword of the samurai was worn with the blade facing down. The ability to draw and cut in one motion also became increasingly useful in the daily life of the samurai.
Shuriken
The earliest known mention of a school teaching shuriken-jutsu is Ganritsu Ryu, prevalent during the 1600s. There are also earlier mentions in written records, such as the Osaka Gunki (The Military Records of Osaka), of the standard knife and short sword being thrown in battle, and Miyamoto Musashi is said to have won a duel by throwing his short sword at his opponent, killing him.
Wireless transmission
Directional antenna
The first directional or beam antenna was the Yagi antenna, invented by Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda in 1926.
High-gain antenna
The first high-gain antenna was also the Yagi antenna in 1926.
Yagi antenna
The Yagi-Uda antenna was invented in 1926 by Shintaro Uda of Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan, with the collaboration of Hidetsugu Yagi, also of Tohoku Imperial University. Yagi published the first English-language reference on the antenna in a 1928 survey article on short wave research in Japan and it came to be associated with his name. However, Yagi always acknowledged Uda's principal contribution to the design, and the proper name for the antenna is, as above, the Yagi-Uda antenna (or array).
Grow older but never grow up
Weekend cruiser
It's a club that offers security and reassurance for people that don't like speed, reliability or handling if it's made in Japan.
Forum whore
HAHAHAHAHAAAHA man you realy dont know anything do you??, if so did FIAT YAMAHA copy ducati in when they MOTO GP WORLD SUPERBIKES and MOTORCROSS last year?? amercians havnt invented anthing.....
One hell of a ride.
I'd like to see your list of favourite things French.
Hardcore Biker
Nice one Oakie and......If HD made Aeroplanes, would you fly in one ??
black cat
wholesaled to the right franchise dealer. a suzuki will sell easier and for more at a suzuki dealer than it will at a ducati shop as a rule
Hardcore Biker
Seems the most common Bike on the planet now is a Harley so...that;s the reason I'm a little different, escape the crowd and buy something else. Less weight , less rip-off at the till , better handling and twice the HP and, ......did I mention " Living the dream" haha...Harleys make me smile...
Born to be mild
I've been doing a little serious thinking about this and I reckon this anti-Japanese thing probably has it's genesis post WWII ... even though they didn't really get into bikes in a big way for years after. Possibly something to do with British and American ex soldier jingoism like "We won the war, how dare those little bastards come and sell their crappy little bikes here!" From there that attitide was passed down from father to son possibly in the way Holden/Ford is played out in Australia and to a lesser extent here in NZ. I came to this conclusion partly from my own dad who first was a Japanese prisoner of war for 4 years and then later in life managed a car sales business. When the Austin/Morris franchise took on a Honda franchise in around 1970 he refused to sell Hondas and was left just with the Austin/Morris division. Nothing to do with the quality of the product ... just he didn't want to be associated with Japanese product. He never said anything to me about the quality being bad but I guess if he had used that excuse to cover up his understandable but never expressed racism, it may well have rubbed off onto me.
Having now deeply thought this through I guess I don't really have a problem with some brand owners wanting their exclusive events if they see themselves as a 'brand X' rider before being a motorcyclist in general. My problem is really with owners who disparage other brands just because of the name on their tank or their country of origin. As someone else said, "a bike is a bike".
Grow older but never grow up
Born to be mild
The most common bike over 1200cc I think it was.
Grow older but never grow up
Born to be mild
Ummm. To be honest I'd probably rather not. I'm not sure why though.
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