Wednesday, May 6, 2009

1987 Interview: Shoichiro Irimajiri - Honda's famed GP designer

Honda's famed GP designer of the Sixties talks about 250cc Fours, past, present and future.

...for the inside story of the CBR and the RC160 racebike, we flew to Honda's Marysville, Ohio, plant, to talk to Shoichiro Irimajiri. Mr. Iri, as he's known by the Marysville staff, currently runs all of Honda's American automobile and motorcycle manufacturing operations. But his background is Honda racing: In the '60's, he designed both the 50cc four-valve-per-cylinder Twin and the first 250 Six. In the '70's, he ran Honda's Motorcycle R&D branch, and was responsible for the CX500, the CBX and the NR500 oval-piston, four-stroke GP bike...

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