{"id":80751,"date":"2008-12-18T02:30:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=80751"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:10","slug":"superbike-hot-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20081218\/everyday-events\/superbike-hot-era","title":{"rendered":"The Superbike Hot Era"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I bought a GS1000S at age 21 without really knowing what I was doing.
\nI was disappointed the first time I rode it… I wondered why I’d bought something like this.
\nWell, compared to the XJR1200 I’d been riding before that, I guess it makes sense.
\nOf course I didn’t know about superbikes either. I didn’t even know about Yoshimura until I turned 18 (sorry about that).
\nThe seniors around me were riding classic bikes.
\nI joined all sorts of tours without really knowing what I was doing.
\nThey taught me about parts, historical background, videos (that’s all we had back then), books and more.
\nI got completely hooked.
\nIt felt like reading back through a finished book, hunting through it.
\nBack then there was no internet, so parts came only through connections, classified ads, or flea markets.
\nBut the 20th century still had parts lying around everywhere.
\nEverything was RGB, RGB\u2014I’d buy unused parts and sell them, buy and sell, you know?
\nBonneville pipes used to trade for around 100,000 yen or so on the used market…
\nOil-cooled bikes weren’t popular back then like they are now.
\nI found this in my bike album, so I’m introducing someone else’s bike.
 
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Even now you can see the good taste shining through.
\nThis sophistication is really a well-executed bike…
\nWheels: RGB Dymag 2.50-18, 4.00-18
\nDiscs: Starfish perforated 310\u03a6, Bench perforated 220\u03a6
\nFork: Moriwaki Kayaba 36\u03a6, Zapper stem
\nArm: Mighty square tube
\nCalipers: Scallop \u00d72, RGB Bench calipers
\nMuffler: Moriwaki Monaka (goofy lips)
\nCarburetor: Yoshimura Mikuni VM33
\nLots more in the back. The tach has RGB embedded in it too, and the cover bolts are titanium flathead.
\nThe oil cooler routing is worth noting too\u2014it’s routed on top and looks really clean.
\nThe fender is STD chrome too.
\nThe kickstand is mounted on the backstep \u2605
\nOf course it works! It was a bike that really moved me.
 
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This one’s tough too!
\nWheels: RGB Campagnolo 2.50-18, 4.00-18
\nDiscs: Teardrop disc, 310\u03a6 probably, RGB Bench
\nFork: Yoshimura Kayaba 37\u03a6, Yoshimura machined 37\u03a6 stem
\nArm: Mighty square tube
\nCalipers: Scallop \u00d72, RGB Bench calipers
\nMuffler: Moriwaki Monaka (goofy lips)
\nAnd so on and so forth.
 
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And this is a photo from when it became a racer.
\nFront and rear, silver Campagnolo \u2605 I really dreamed about it\u2014the way “silver Campa” sounded.
\nThis was when my older brother said he was going to race at Monster, so I went to help. It was the 20th century.
\nI was young too. Still dressed in my usual wild style though…
\nThinking back on the old days on a long winter’s night \u2605
\nA bike is an environment; if you don’t have an environment where you can enjoy it, you won’t stick with it.
\nI was fortunate to find myself in such an environment, and I’m grateful for it again.
\nWhat’s Pokidam anyway? I’d like to know too.
\nWhoosh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought a GS1000S at age 21 without really knowing what I was doing. I was disappointed the first time I rode it… I wondered why I’d bought something like this. Well, compared to the XJR1200 I’d been riding before that, I guess it makes sense. Of course I didn’t know about superbikes either. I didn’t even know about Yoshimura until I turned 18 (sorry about that). The seniors around me were riding classic bikes. I joined all sorts of tours without really knowing what I was doing. They taught me about parts, historical background, videos (that’s all we had back then), books and more. I got completely hooked. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55,115],"class_list":["post-80751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog","tag-z-aircooled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80751","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=80751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}