Inside Yamaha’s R&D departments there is a climate that encourages spontaneous, independent research. There, efforts are being made to expand engineers’ horizons so that they can facilitate innovation with Yamaha style. This is the story of how one amateur trials-riding engineer got his colleagues involved in his passion, and went on to form a team that took on the challenge to be the best in the world.
The passion of that young engineer who aspired to develop an electric trials bike capable of competing at the world level has spurred on not only his colleagues, but also Yamaha itself and Japan’s top trials rider Kenichi Kuroyama, all of whom have now taken the first steps toward becoming the best in the world.