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Looking Back at Yoshimura's Legendary Complete Bike: TORNADO 1200 Bonneville

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In the late 1980s, Yoshimura competed in races worldwide with air/oil-cooled GSX-R machines, and applied the technology gained there to develop a "Bonneville kit." Built into a GSX-R1100-based machine, the resulting "TORNADO 1200 BONNEVILLE" is regarded as one of the most powerful complete motorcycles Yoshimura ever produced.

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Motoo Kajimura

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A motorcycle isn't transportation, it's culture — that's what I think every time I see a Yoshimura complete build. Builders of that era poured their racing knowledge unstintingly into production bikes. Not just assembling an off-the-shelf kit, but hammering an entire philosophy into one machine. Without heat accumulated on the ground, a machine like this could never be born.