Design Cafe
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The Design Cafe is an interactive platform where our planners tell you about the background of motorcycle and scooter development. At the same time you can leave reactions and give us your feedback in polls and questionnaires!
Featured articles
YZF-R1: Traction control born from racing
"Traction control is working very well in racing, so at a certain point we started to develop it for road bikes" says Product Planning Manager Oliver Grill. "It really helps you to go faster. Whether you're a professional or not: if you have to concentrate less on grip conditions you can focus more on your speed".
Read MoreTMAX 2012. More lightweight, more power, more TMAX than ever.
"The previous TMAX was already a perfectly balanced vehicle" says Naoki Segawa who was guiding the development process. "Our challenge was how to improve the performance while keeping all the good points of the previous model."
2012 WR450F with fuel injection and new chassis
Important model change with fuel-injected engine in YZ250F-based chassis which brings new levels of agility to the 450 class. Bodywork is all-new, with a modern and slim-line design which underlines the 250-class dimensions and also has a 30mm lower seat height than the previous model.
Xenter: clear advantages in the high-wheel category
"There are many scooters in this category already." says Product Planner Giovanna Camisa. "But we did not want to make just another one. We wanted to be sure we could develop clear advantages for the customer, and spent a lot of time to research the actual usage in their daily life."
