Interestingly, the V-Max project happened by complete accident, after Yamaha Venture Royale full-dresser project leader, Akira Akari, stumbled across a motorbike drag race over the span of a ...
Things were very different in 1985, when the Yamaha V-Max stormed onto the scene ... Akira Araki was inspired by Americans’ passion for drag racing and hot rod cars. On a trip to the U.S. he’d been ...