our
Right about now; our
competitors will begin
, their yearly litany of all the
things that make their
stock bikes the next
best thing to a
• • factory ride.
When, in fact, the two are
about as similar as fish
sticks and lobster.
At Yamaha, we
stopped building factory machines two
years ago. And
concentrated
on making our
$2,000 plus
production bikes
good enough to
compete with the
28
are
otherguys'$100,000 works bikes.
We were, to say the least,
rather successful.To the extent
that, in 1984, Rick Johnson won
the AMA 250cc National Motocross
Championship
on
productionYl.
31J..
.'
Of course, that was last year,
this is this year and our new
bikes are even better. So we
have no doubt the story will be
the same. Showroom Yamahas
beating laboratory whatevers.
Not the other way am.m.d
