Dissect this bike- Yoshimura race bike

Is there any way to tell what kind of wheels these are? The run of the mill Enkei's?

cyclenews.coverleaf.com/cyclenews/20111115#pg1


pg 82

trianglelaguna wrote: cyclenews.coverleaf.com/cyclenews/20111115#pg1


pg 82

Sh*t, I can't get past the cover! It's actually page 86. Unless you were talking about phone mounts.

That looks a lot like this DOREMI COLLECTION bike featured in last year's Hyper Bike, other than the tank, headers, wheels and rotors.



I know everyone's going to ask me about the pipes, so here's what the article says about them.

Original D-C experiment product, all steel construction, but only 8 kg compared to OEM 13kg.
Also, says the pipes will soon be in production. The article was circa Feb 2010.

So....

Going to the D-C website reveals the following webpage:
server44.joeswebhosting.net/~do21762/sho...info&products_id=941

with the following picture



(which refuses to link, so just click on the thumbnail pic on the webpage)

and goes on to say the pipes are stamped with the appropriate Yoshimura markings
and they meet Japanese govt standards for inspection purposes

for the paltry sum of about 2990USD (plus shipping) at today's yen rate, you too can own a set.

Thanks again Bill! That looks pretty darn sharp! I've taken screenshots of the five gallery images of the bike and posted below:

Upon a side-to-side comparison, the pipes (specifically the header pipes) in the pic that Leon posted look hand bent.

mtbspeedfreak wrote: Upon a side-to-side comparison, the pipes (specifically the header pipes) in the pic that Leon posted look hand bent.

Yeah, I noted that as well. Probably using hand bent headers would have made the pipes prohibitively expensive. As it stands, these black steel pipes are already only a couple hundred bucks cheaper than the Anny's full titanium 4/4 system. Shouldn't take too much effort to re-curve a chrome OEM 4/4 system (about 2000USD) and paint them flat black, either.

Ya know, considering the DOREMI website doesn't brag about the 5kg weight savings mentioned in the Hyper-Bike feature, I betcha that's exactly what happened.

I also just noticed right there in the quoted picture, if you can tear your eyes away from the bike, the painted-to-match helmet sports the DOREMI logo.

WPBill wrote:

mtbspeedfreak wrote: Upon a side-to-side comparison, the pipes (specifically the header pipes) in the pic that Leon posted look hand bent.

Yeah, I noted that as well. Probably using hand bent headers would have made the pipes prohibitively expensive. As it stands, these black steel pipes are already only a couple hundred bucks cheaper than the Anny's full titanium 4/4 system. Shouldn't take too much effort to re-curve a chrome OEM 4/4 system (about 2000USD) and paint them flat black, either.

Ya know, considering the DOREMI website doesn't brag about the 5kg weight savings mentioned in the Hyper-Bike feature, I betcha that's exactly what happened.

I also just noticed right there in the quoted picture, if you can tear your eyes away from the bike, the painted-to-match helmet sports the DOREMI logo.

No, I couldn't tear my eyes off the bike! In the meantime, I spotted a DOREMI logo on the tail piece of the Z1 at the Yosh stand. Bingo!!! The headers also look to be a larger diameter.

Long story short, I stumbled across a little more information on this superbike replica:








blog.yoshimura-jp.com/.s/2012/05/post-4a28.html

More new pics from Tokyo Dormei. Looks like the bike participated in the Taste of Tsukuba event: