Yamaha’s marking 70 years within the bike commerce this 12 months – sure, it was again in 1955 that the agency began making bikes.

The primary bike was the Pink Dragonfly YA-1: a 125cc air-cooled two-stroke, which was profitable races simply weeks after it launched. And the agency has designed a particular seventieth anniversary brand, based mostly on the YA-1’s race quantity plate from again within the day. Right here’s to a different 70 years from the tuning fork outfit.