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

Thanks for that, I think they are an excellent bike

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sSwIEFF3bBo

Edited January 25, 200917 yr by bo drinker

Many thanks for that, interesting and entertaining translations

whilst clicking around on the links i came across this:

http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_u...so%2fdebeso.htm

At multiple All Japan champion Kenichi Kuroyama's website http://www.kuroyama.jp/ there are pages about his brother Jiro's Scorpa 125. Here one about the crankcase bottom drain plug casting.

http://www.kuroyama.jp/tys125f/081126.htm

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?d...5f%2f081126.htm

Appearently grinding too far is a risk aswell as cracks from not having grinded it down before taking hard blows on the sump shield.