{"id":25068,"date":"2022-10-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=25068"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:45:49","slug":"if-you-ride-an-oil-cooled-suzuki-in-japan-try-yoshimura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20221003\/blogs\/thoughts\/if-you-ride-an-oil-cooled-suzuki-in-japan-try-yoshimura","title":{"rendered":"If you’re riding an oil-cooled Suzuki in Japan, I’d love for you to experience Yoshimura (*’\u25bd’)\u3010Thoughts\u3011Motorcycle."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Suzuki’s charismatic brand “Yoshimura”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has fans both domestically and internationally.
The camshaft is surprisingly hard to get your hands on.

Especially with the oil-cooled 1200 series, it feels like everything gets optimized from bottom to top. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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This camshaft was also a product I struggled to find at the beginning of this year.

There’s definitely that frustration of not being able to get what you want when you want it.
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Oil-cooled 1200 series
GSF1200\/Bandit 1200\/Inazuma 1200\/GS1200SS and the like get a particularly delicious result.
The stock version has low-end torque, but the mid-range and up pull is honestly a bit underwhelming.

I think there are many times when the balance between RPM and vehicle speed feels off.

By changing the cam, that balance improves and you get a feeling like “finally, is this stock?”
It’s the impression of smooth revving from low to high.
It feels really good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Won’t changing the cam lose low-end power?

No way, it’s got plenty of solid low-end (‘\u03c9’)\u30ce
The ST-2 in particular has that razor-sharp high-RPM pull which is fun, but it’s a bit unsuitable for city riding.
If you’re riding the all-rounder Yoshimura ST-1 oil-cooled 1200, it’s definitely a gem you should experience at least once. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suzuki’s charismatic brand “Yoshimura” It has fans both domestically and internationally. The camshaft is surprisingly hard to get your hands on. Especially with the oil-cooled 1200 series, it feels like everything gets optimized from bottom to top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-25068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}