Tatsuya Yamaguchi, who rode MORIWAKI in Japan Superbike in 2007 and 2008 is coming back. Yamaguchi will join MORIWAKI Club and fully participates All Japan Championship ST600 class in next season. MORIWAKI colored machine will excite the championship again. We ask your support to him and our Club team.
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Yamaguchi’s official website: http://www.t2y.jp/index.html
Introducing MORIWAKI ZEPHYR PROJECT! One of major motorcycle magazines, Auto-bi (Motor Magazine Ltd., Feb 2010 Issue) revealed MORIWAKI’s ongoing new project. The concept of the project and newly developed exhaust system are presented. The magazine is now on sale. Get it and learn about what’s going on at MORIWAKI.
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Motor Magazine Ltd. website:
URL / http://motormagazine.co.jp/2009/12/_201002.html#more
SMSC (Suzuka Motorsports Club) Series Award Party was on today at Suzuka Circuit. From our MORIWAKI Club, Tabaru, winner of Suzuka Sunday Road Race ST600 2009 Champion, and Fujishima, West Challenge Cup ST600 class 3rd ranked joined the party. Tabaru was also rewarded Suzuka City Mayor Award. We are happy to see the club members’ names on the season ranking board. Their hard training brought great results.
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Comment from Fujishima:
I participated the West Challenge Cup this year. I won the race at Suzuka but I was not happy with the result at Okayama. I would like to be more adaptive to different tracks and have better result next year. Thank everyone for great support.
Comment from Tabaru:
I am relieved that I won the crown now, but I am not really happy about the season. I want to be more consistent next year. Thank you very much.
We took a MD600 to Suzuka Circuit on Dec 22 for its last track test of the year. Of-course, we haven’t stopped our development on the machine since the post-GP test in Valencia.
New parts were introduced to further improve handling ability and we were evaluating its performance.
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MotoGP Moto2 class is just about to start. Some MORIWAKI MD600s will be brought to the grid by GP teams. We ask your continuous support in upcoming world championship.
Tsubokawa, a MD250H rider who participated All Japan Championship 2009 season, sent us a warm kind message and we would like to introduce it here.
Dear MORIWAKI members,
This is Tsubokawa. I bought a MD250H in March this year and got 17th place in All Japan ranking in GP-MONO class after participated all the races in the series.
For individuals like me who had very limited experience in All Japan field and not being a member of racing specialist shops, my own inexperienced team (www.team-marguerite.com) and I would never be able to do what I have achieved this year without your members support.
Your support for everything I needed for racing such as carb and suspension settings, maintenance frequency, parts modification and even the advice on my riding form were really helpful. It was beyond service that we usually get after purchasing something. Sometime it’s difficult for us to choose right parts but the information you gave us with long experience of MORIWAKI made us easier to find correct ones. And your response to our request was always very quick and we didn’t really need to have spare parts inventory, so we could keep our budget minimum.
At the engine overhaul, you gave us precise judgment on what parts should be replaced and what shouldn’t. It’s easy to change everything with new parts but your experience allow us to keep the ones we could still use and I understood that’s how you work. I could use my bike with good confidence. I am very glad to have the great machine and meet good people at MORIWAKI.
I think most of racing bikes you ride need certain time to get used to but that was not MD250H case. I didn’t take much time to get used the bike and before getting points on championship. It’s purely the potential of MD250H.
MD250H made my race more fun. It is going to be my second year in All Japan Championship next season. Having all data we got from this year, I will try hard to improve my position next year.
Thank you again for your support whole through the year.
The final round of Suzuka Sunday Road Race 2009, NGK Cup was held on December 6. 2 riders from MORIWAKI Club were entering the cup, Tabaru in “Suzuka-Kinki ST600 Championship” and Fujishima in “West Challenge Cup ST600.”
The rainy Saturday qualifying session saw Tabaru taking the second position on the grid in his class. Fujishima got pole position, having comfortable 4 second lead to his closest opponent.
On Sunday, Tabaru finished in 5th and taking his first Suzuka-Kinki ST600 championship title of the season.
Fujishima dominated the race from the beginning. Won the race with 13 seconds.
We also saw a MORIWAKI MD250H got a podium at Suzuka-Kinki GP-MONO class. Takase battled through till the last corner of the last lap, showed great race. He won the MORIWAKI Prize, too.
MORIWAKI likes to thank all the funs who came to Suzuka to support our club members. And congratulations to Takase for his podium.
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Official result by Suzuka Circuit
http://www.suzukacircuit.jp/result_s/2009/sundayr/index.html
Z400GP came out in 1982 as a successor of Z400FX. Now, MORIWAKI is preparing limited edition of traditional One-Piece exhaust system for it. The hand-bent exhaust system will be produce in limited numbers. The order will be closed by the end of January 2010.
Retail price: 69,000JPY (without tax)
POP / http://www.moriwaki.co.jp/dealer/pdf/Z400GP.pdf
WEB SHOPPING / http://www.moriwaki.co.jp/global/product/ex.php?maker=KAWASAKI&model=Z400GP
Fujishima and Tabaru, the 2009 Suzuka 4hrs winners are entering the 45th NGK Cup Suzuka Sunday Road Race this weekend.
At their last race of the season, they are going to try Pirelli for their first time. It will be a trial prior to next year season. They actually tried Pirelli on track already and their impression on Pirelli is very good. Let’s see how it turns out this weekend at NGK Cup.
http://www.suzukacircuit.jp/ngkcup/
