All of our Enamels will need to be diluted by around 5-10% using Paintman Coach Enamel Thinners, thus ensuring the highest quality finish and maintaining correct drying times. Unlike other brands, the Yamaha logo has undergone few transformations over the years, as demonstrated by this TD2 250 from the early ’70s and with the old official colors. In 1969, the distributor registered an official team to compete in the prestigious Daytona 200 Milles, at that time the most important race in the United States and a big claim for sales. And for you, what is the most mythical decoration or the colors that you like most in the history of motorcycling? Borgo Panigale’s motorcycles were painted silver-gray and came to show off a ‘cavallino rampante’ in his fairing!

And as the lessons learned from race victory are applied to production models, they lead to development breakthroughs and in turn build the foundation for future victory. The spread of the “BMW rotor logo” theory surely started thanks to some advertisements from the interwar period. Seeing that green brought back memories of my dad taking me to school in the 1980s on the back of his green KZ440, and my own old Ninja 500.The dye was so deadly that some historians even think green wallpaper could have killed Napoleon Bonaparte. But a couple of decades earlier, the Count of Baracca had ‘ceded’ the image of the rampant horse to the Scuderia Ferrari.

Currently, there is no Japanese motorcycle brand that uses a ‘mon’, although recently Kawasaki has reintroduced the river mark, a symbol present on the flags of the boats manufactured by Kawasaki at the beginning of the company.

All of Kawasaki racing activity in the UK will fall under the Team Green banner, creating one large racing network.