In the recent Section 13 YOU HAVE USED WORDS OR A PHRASE WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED ON THIS WEBSITE. PLEASE DELETE YOUR POST/TOPIC. DO NOT TRY TO CIRCUMVENT THE FILTERS IN PLACE ON THIS WEBSITE there is an article about the Ihatove Trial in Japan by Yasuo Manzawa.
In 1973 and 74 Yasuo Manzawa and Shozo Narita participated in the Scottish Six Days Trial on Honda TL125 machines and by inspiration they started the Ihatove Trial in 1977.
I read with special interest the section about the origin of the Scorpa 125.
It was the chief development rider of Yamaha, Haruo Kimura, All japan champion in 1973 who in 2000 showed up at Ihatove with his own development trials bike which later became the base for the Scorpa TYS125F.
Some pictures of the 2000 prototype:
http://ty125f.gooside.com/debyualbum.htm
And with Babel fish translation:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?d...fdebyualbum.htm
After developing it further with the cooperation of Scorpa it was shown at the Ihatove trial 2002. Kimura did not ride it himself but miss Okamoto working at the same place made the two day trial over 350 km.
Miss Okamoto with the 2002 prototype and also Kimura and the 2000 prototype can be seen in the pictures in this frame broken out separatly from http://www.sukaheru.net/~ihatove/:
http://www.sukaheru.net/~ihatove/ns_rule/ns_rule04.html
And with Babel fish translation:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?d...fns_rule04.html
Published to the natural mountain communication 2002 November edition