<div dir="ltr"><div>It's not just Honda. </div><div><br></div>The Yamaha <a href="https://www.advpulse.com/adv-bikes/throwback-thursday-1988-yamaha-tdr250/">TDR250 </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_TDM850">TDM850</a> is a great example of how Europe understood better how bikes are actually used. I think that because the postwar period was harder in Europe that the tradition of motorcycles actually used as transport was carried later. Also, they just didn't have the wide open spaces of the United States. Long distance didn't involve highways until much later. <div><br></div><div>Couple that with a history of grand prix racing and they're just a better motorcycle culture than us. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 4:45 PM J. Braun via Tanx <<a href="mailto:tanx@lists.micapeak.com">tanx@lists.micapeak.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Probably - until I put all the RC51 bits into the engine. Which, admittedly, I would probably never get around to.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I just like Euro Hondas. It's neurotic! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">J.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 2:11 PM John Borella via Tanx <<a href="mailto:tanx@lists.micapeak.com" target="_blank">tanx@lists.micapeak.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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