Having lived through my motorcycle era enjoying quite a few different bike offerings along the way, I gotta say that I found it far easier to work with the Japanese bike manuals, typos, mistranslations and all, than when I first encountered the British manuals for the Triumphs and BSA's.

"What the #&@! is 'tickover'?" (It meant, "idle" as in engine rpm..."

"Whitworth Spanner?" Who in $#%! is Whitworth and what the #*!@ is a Spanner?" (Turned out that Spanner = Wrench and Whitworth meant an entirely different bolthead pattern.)

"Hooter" was a tad easier, but there was also a drawing of what we call the "Horn" along with that paragraph.

The description about how to ride the things and shift gears using clutch with throttle were also rather incomprehensible to this Yankee as well.

But the bikes were cool.

I've never ridden another straight up configuration machine that handled as well as that old late 60's Triumph Tiger. Well, the original Yamaha 650, but it was just a Japanese clone of the Triumph Bonneville platform in most important frame and engine geometry aspects.


--Mac

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