The Big-bike Collection – Second Series: Distinctive Models

In 1955, Yamaha Motor released the YA-1, its first motorcycle and a model that featured beautiful styling as well as light, agile performance. Yamaha began developing sport models and promoting their wider use earlier than other Japanese manufacturers, and would later continue challenging itself by introducing new concepts, technologies and designs into its Monozukuri. By releasing all kinds of highly original products, Yamaha expanded the market for motorcycles and continued striving to offer a more fulfilling motorcycling lifestyle to people all over the world.
Among its many motorcycles, the big-displacement models that hold the highest status are the centerpiece of this exhibition, and we display them in line with the three themes of “high performance models,” “distinctive models” and “cruisers & tourers.” We introduce products representative of each of these themes while touching on the background to their release and model variations.

Second Series: Distinctive Models
Exhibition Period: February 4, 2015-April 17, 2015

Throughout Yamaha Motor's 60-year history of manufacturing motorcycles, there have been numerous big-bikes that stood out as stars of their respective eras. For this second collection of models, we have gathered together a number of such bikes that were born of a pursuit of unique ideas and innovative concepts, cutting-edge technologies and novel designs not found in the bikes of other brands, all of which made them truly distinctive models that are still loved by a following of devoted fans today.