In pursuit of new levels of compactness and lightness

Making every mechanism and every design smaller and lighter has always been an important technological goal for Yamaha. For example, to build a fuel injection system small enough to be mounted on a small-displacement motorcycle, Yamaha employed exclusive technologies that reduced the size to roughly one half and the electricity consumption to about one third that of an automobile fuel injection system. At the same time, they succeeded in improving response and increasing fuel economy with only half the number of sensors. Meanwhile, the “CF die-cast frame” made possible by Yamaha’s exclusive aluminum die casting technology reduces weight as well as the number of parts necessary to construct a frame, which has significantly increased design freedom. These are the types of technological challenges that Yamaha will continue to pursue in order to push back the limits of what is possible.