The motorcycle division of Yamaha moved to Iwata, a neighboring city on the other side of the Tenryū River. This year’s MotoAmerica Daytona 200 is scheduled for March 11, and you can be sure there will be some green machines mixing it up at the front of the pack.

The industrial town of Hamamatsu, halfway between Tokyo and Osaka, was the birthplace of these three large corporations, although currently only Suzuki is still based in Hamamatsu. Supplied in 400ML aerosols, 2K Products are Isocyanate "proper" 2 pack products (pull the pin to mix them prior, wear appropriate ppe, and professional use only). Due to the different resins used, you may experience slight shade variations between Ultraspeed and Coach Enamel.

So a Bright red in a Direct gloss 2K will look deep and vibrant, whereas in something like Upol Raptor will look matt, and a little pastellised despite being a "colour match". Fabio Taglioni, engineer and creator of the Ducati desmodromic, decided to paint the shield of his city on his motorcycles: Baracca. Offerings are polished through the cycle of victory, helping to achieve the high standards set by our philosophy.

In 1996 KTM adopted an aggressive orange for its entire off-road range and is now so important that even its main sponsor, also Austrian Red Bull, adapts its logo to combine them with the factory colors – a perfect symbiosis!The genius that was going to change the motorcycling forever began manufacturing piston rings for Toyota. Molly Sanders proposed to paint the machines with a bold lime green, a color that nobody had used before in racing since it was considered ‘jinxed’. At the Daytona 200 racers used the high banks of iconic NASCAR superspeedway, and riders fought hard on the dangerous circuit.