Team Honda is Back!

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Edited Date/Time 1/23/2012 4:18am
well, in japan. Team Honda is back for 2011 season after missing for 3 years(?). Masuda and Hirata will be riding works CRF450R. Very good news.
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Ddavis 2/3/2011 8:57pm
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Cool, is Akira Narita racing? (that's his name, correct?)
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TokioMX 2/3/2011 9:10pm
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Akira Narita is a main guy for Yamaha but he races with his own private team, NRT. Yamaha don't run a factory team.
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Xeno 2/3/2011 9:53pm
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TokioMX wrote:
well, in japan. Team Honda is back for 2011 season after missing for 3 years(?). Masuda and Hirata will be riding works CRF450R. Very good news.
Photos or it didn't happen!

Lots of photos. High-res, up-close technicolor photos of shiney (the asian way to spell shiny, meaning bright in appearance), CNC-milled/Japanese-polished custom trickery. Don't forget to show inexplicable tools and unfamiliar graphics with crazy-character writing.

Thank you in advance. I'll be waiting.

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TokioMX 2/3/2011 10:14pm
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You got to wait for Swap to get photo of 2011 works bikes.

meanwhile, you can see low quality cell phone photo of Doug Henley's YZF400 at Yamaha museum from the other day.

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FIREfish148 2/3/2011 10:17pm
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Some of those cats out of japan are pretty damn impressive riders. Thats good news. congrats.
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GuyB 2/3/2011 10:58pm
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There was one comment that said, "Who freakin' cares?"

Amazingly, that one seemed to fall off the board.

For noobs like that poster, TokioMX has been posting for a long time, often provides tips on things that we don't see here for several months, and is a valuable asset to the forum.

That other poster? Not so much.
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TokioMX 2/4/2011 12:27am
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Thanks GuyB. and mattbmx for my spelling error....

Found one picture of 2011 on HRC site. might be a stock CRF with some factory parts not actual factory bike, but you get an idea of overall look.



but this thing is trick! HSV-010 GT
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burn1986 2/4/2011 6:52am
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Wow, that's some pretty amazing stuff. Thanks for the pics and info, TokioMX.
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NeWskoolmxer 2/4/2011 7:10am
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I can't wait for the spy photos, The japanese guys always have some really trick shit.
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Xeno 2/4/2011 8:59am
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Yes, I smell some Photochopping on the above HRC photo.
I'm not sold on the red rimmage. But a red motor, a-la Mugen, that would look very nice.
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TeamGreen 2/4/2011 8:59am
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A lil' Birdy told me that Team Honda/Superbike-U.S. will be back, soon, too.
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Highsider 2/4/2011 9:09am
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GuyB wrote:
There was one comment that said, "Who freakin' cares?" Amazingly, that one seemed to fall off the board. For noobs like that poster, TokioMX has been...
There was one comment that said, "Who freakin' cares?"

Amazingly, that one seemed to fall off the board.

For noobs like that poster, TokioMX has been posting for a long time, often provides tips on things that we don't see here for several months, and is a valuable asset to the forum.

That other poster? Not so much.
Thanks!
Glad I missed it and I trust your judgement.
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SethGator 2/4/2011 9:13am
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TeamGreen wrote:
A lil' Birdy told me that Team Honda/Superbike-U.S. will be back, soon, too.
when is this birdy going to chirp, this season or next? always good to have factory support on the grid besides rockstar suzuki. it would be cool to finally see josh herrin on a superbike, yamaha is just holding him back at this point, IMO. he should have been in superbike or moto2 by now...

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TeamGreen 2/4/2011 9:31am
2/4/2011 9:31am Edited Date/Time 2/4/2011 9:32am
TeamGreen wrote:
A lil' Birdy told me that Team Honda/Superbike-U.S. will be back, soon, too.
SethGator wrote:
when is this birdy going to chirp, this season or next? always good to have factory support on the grid besides rockstar suzuki. it would be...
when is this birdy going to chirp, this season or next? always good to have factory support on the grid besides rockstar suzuki. it would be cool to finally see josh herrin on a superbike, yamaha is just holding him back at this point, IMO. he should have been in superbike or moto2 by now...

I'm of the opinion that they're developing now for a late '11 or full 2012 effort...

Fingers crossed!

Graves, btw, is a Full-Factory effort; hence, the title...also, I think Graves is the ONLY "Factory-Direct" 600 & SB Team...?
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SethGator 2/4/2011 10:02am
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TeamGreen wrote:
I'm of the opinion that they're developing now for a late '11 or full 2012 effort... Fingers crossed! Graves, btw, is a Full-Factory effort; hence, the...
I'm of the opinion that they're developing now for a late '11 or full 2012 effort...

Fingers crossed!

Graves, btw, is a Full-Factory effort; hence, the title...also, I think Graves is the ONLY "Factory-Direct" 600 & SB Team...?
yeah big fan of graves, wish suzuki would have a 600 team. martin cardenas is now on a m4 suzuki in superbike.

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dcg141 2/4/2011 12:48pm
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Wow..didn't realize Honda had pulled out of the Japanese series. The works stuff they run over there is very cool eye candy.
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jms217 2/4/2011 6:57pm
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TokioMX wrote:
Thanks GuyB. and mattbmx for my spelling error.... Found one picture of 2011 on HRC site. might be a stock CRF with some factory parts not...
Thanks GuyB. and mattbmx for my spelling error....

Found one picture of 2011 on HRC site. might be a stock CRF with some factory parts not actual factory bike, but you get an idea of overall look.



but this thing is trick! HSV-010 GT
did anyone else notice that they are running bridgestone tires. Interesting, seeing as most of the teams are running dunlops(JGR has Perelli) wonder what that means.
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TokioMX 2/6/2011 5:28am
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jms217 wrote:
did anyone else notice that they are running bridgestone tires. Interesting, seeing as most of the teams are running dunlops(JGR has Perelli) wonder what that means.
I believe Bridestone never pulled out of Japanese MX series, as Dream Honda team (it was #1 Honda team here for last couple of years) and a factory Suzuki's Atsuta were on BS.
Race-World.com 2/7/2011 2:57am
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Hey TokioMX.

Were you the dude that put up pics of the CR125 a season or so ago that was seen at a pre-season race over there??
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flarider 2/7/2011 5:21am
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I remember Tokio putting up the first pics of the aluminum frames on FD and then other sites and even online magazines poaching them...I believe even a print magazine used it.

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