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- Learn about Yoshimura -
Yoshimura has been a leader in high performance motorcycle & automobile parts since 1954, specializing in exhaust systems for high performance sport bikes, street motorcycles, and many off road racing vehicles. You can find your Yoshimura Exhaust Systems at Power Parts Plus
Yoshimura R&D of America has had a very successful history winning numerous championships throughout the years and capping off 2003 with Mat Mladin's 4th AMA Superbike Championship and the AMA Formula Extreme Championship of Ben Spies. 2004 started off with a bang when Mat Mladin won his 3rd Daytona200 and it ended even louder when he claimed his 5th title! 2005 looks to be the same story as Mladin picked up another win at Daytona, his fifth win there.Racing is a large part of who we are as a company. It is the the main reason we exist as a company. Face it, compared to racing, all else in life shrinks in significance!
Hideo "Pops" Yoshimura started the company back in 1954. As you can see from the picture, Yoshimura had a humble beginning. From the original shop in Japan, however, a seed was planted and it started to grow.
The reputation of Yoshimura
grew quickly. The motorcycle and racecar engines Pops built were very quick.
Soon he had a following of diehard racers. In the seventies, Pops came to
America and started up the American division of his company.
Yoshimura R&D of America was born and places like Daytona, Loudon, and
Brainerd haven't been the same since. The Yoshimura approach to racing proved
very successful. The attention to detail and passion for perfection was instilled
in every employee from day one. The products were clearly a cut above the
competition and the business grew.
The formula was then, and is now, very
simple really, "Concentrate on nothing but performance, quality, and
fit. the business will come." Yoshimura today has the
same basic formula. While companies come and go trying all sorts of clever
marketing plans and developing inferior products, Yoshimura just keeps growing.
Our customers know that there will never be compromise with our products.
They also know that our knowledge comes straight from the racetrack to our
customer.
Pops knew product and he knew racing. In the world of Yoshimura,
that's all that counts. Pops' son Fujio took over the business here in the
USA and Pops returned to Japan to concentrate on the market there.
When Pops decided it was time to take it a little easy, Fujio went back to
Japan to oversee the overall Yoshimura operations.
Suehiro "Nabe" Watanabe took
over the reigns of Yoshimura R&D of America and Don Sakakura
was promoted to race team manager.
Nabe came up through the ranks at Yoshimura. He started out as a race mechanic
and now runs the largest sport bike pipe manufacturing business in the world.
Nabe
was blessed with a fundamental understanding of the manufacturing process
and has innovated numerous techniques in manufacturing, production, and racing
exhaust design. The sum of these innovations is leadership in one of the most
competitive segments of the aftermarket.
Don Sakakura is spending more and more time in the day-to-day operations of
the company. While still managing the team to three straight Superbike titles,
he is heavily involved in the overall management role of the company.
The faces may change at Yoshimura but one thing remains constant, a devotion to racing and building products capable of winning. Yoshimura puts racing first, business second. As it turns out, this philosophy has insured our business success.
Yoshimura has a very straight forward philosophy. Our philosophy started way back in 1954 with Pops and is still going strong. We race to win.
The spirit of racing started everything
here at Yoshimura, and to this day, drives everything that we do as a company.
Yoshimura in business terms could be categorized as a "Lifestyle"
company. The primary drive here is the lifestyle of our sport rather than
profit motivated business directives. The funny thing is, the more "Core"
we are, the more business comes our way.
Fortunately for Yoshimura as a company, the consumer recognizes
quality and performance and this keeps our business growing through the years.
This is the force behind everything we
do. If we were in this just for the business, we wouldn't be putting so much
effort in our racing program.
Yoshimura is a "Core" comapny that has a crystal
clear philosophy. It is through racing that we can develop and test new products
at the harshest environment.
Yoshimura is the largest sportbike aftermarket pipe manufacturer in the world. We ship out thousands of pipes each month to customers all around the world. Over the many years we have been in business, our reputation has driven sales to the point where we are the industry leader.
Years ago we decide that to win
we needed to manufacture our own components. Stock wasn't an option. Hand
made "works" parts were inconsistant in specification and qualtiy
at times. As a result, about 25 years ago we started building all of our own
CNC parts in house.
Since then, we have added numerous products such as rearsets, triple clamps,
engine components, etc. As with all of our products, Yoshimura hard parts
are unparalleled in quality and performance.
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