Yoshikatsu's Motorcycle Life

DBPOWER EX5000 WIFI I would like to write about my favorite item. My favorite item is DBPOWER EX5000 WIFI. This is a wearable camera. GoPro is famous for wearable cameras. GoPro is a good product with very wonderful image quality, but it's very expensive. The price is about 60,000 yen. I can't afford this price, but you can buy DBPOWER for 6,000 yen at Amazon. This product is good at cost-performance. The image quality is also beautiful, and I am satisfied with the function. I think that the only disadvantage is that it can't use an outside microphone. Mounted image The reason that I bought this item is because I was not satisfied with the pictures on my smartphone. My smartphone can only take pictures when I'm stopped. I wanted to take photos even when I was riding. It is possible to take various scenes. I wear my camera when I ride my motorcycle. I also use it when I am at home. It's amazing to be able to look back on memories of touring. It's also...

Blue line is Sadamine Pass. Orange line is Shomaru Pass. I would like to introduce my favorite touring places. I have been touring to various places. Among them, Chichibu is my favorite place. Chichibu is located in Saitama Prefecture. It's popular as a sightseeing spot, and there are many passes. Among them, I'll introduce my two favorite passes. The two passes appear in "Initial D". Shomaru Bowl and Genghis Khan First, I'll introduce Shomaru Pass. The distance is about 6 km. There is a teahouse at the top. You can eat and buy stickers there. Shoumaru Bowl is the specialty of this shop.  Old woman in the shop is a very good person. The altitude is 636 m and it's about the same height as Tokyo Sky Tree.  It's an old narrow road, and the road surface is rough, so you need to be careful while driving. I think it's a good pass where many charms are packed. Teahouse   Udon noodle shop Second, I'll introduce Sadamine Pass...

Yamaha NIKEN Yamaha YZF-R1M&MOTOBOT Honda NSX Mazda VISION COUPE I went to the Tokyo Motor Show on November 5. It was held at Tokyo Big Sight from October 27 to November 5. It was the 45th meeting this time. The Tokyo Motor Show began in 1954. Many people visited, not only from Japan, but also from overseas. There you see the manufacture's new model cars and motorcycles. Also, if you can make a reservation, it's also possible to test drive new model cars. However, the test drive was so, popular I couldn't get reservation. NTN booth At this event I found a very nice booth. It's a parts manufacturer of the NTN company. This manufacturer mainly makes bearings. Bearings are parts for smooth rotation in cars and motorcycles and more. It seems that 150 bearings are used in a car. At this booth I was able to experience making a bearing. I was surprised that simpler than I imagined. This experience was interesting and it was a good experience. I am interest...

Yamaha's Moto GP machine YZR-M1 (2017) Moto GP  was held at Twin Ring Motegi in Tochigi Prefecture from October 13 to October 15. Moto GP is the world's best motorcycle race that began in 1949. The 2017 is season held in around 14 countries around the world, and 18 races are held in total. Moto GP is divided into classes according to displacement. Among them, Moto GP (1000cc) class is the highest peak class. The maximum speed of that class is 350km/h. In this class, domestic manufacturers such as Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha participate. It was held on the first floor of Kitte. Yamaha held an event on October 11 at Kitte near Tokyo Station.I thought that perhaps Yamaha held an event to let people know about the charm of Moto GP. At this event, I was able to see various race motorcycles. Besides that, the talk show and VR experience and more were held at the venue. I didn't listen to the talk show, but I was very excited just watching the motorcycles. Succe...

"Mizo Otoshi" Have you read "Initial D"? I'm a fan of "Initial D". It's a famous car manga. It was published in 1995. The main character is "Takumi Fujiwara" the son of a tofu shop owner. He delivers tofu every morning on the mountain road. The mountain road name is Mt. Akina. Mt. Akina often appears in "Initial D". "Takumi Fujiwara" found a new way of driving on Mt. Akina.  This is "Mizo Otoshi". It's a way of driving the inner tire in a groove and driving a corner at a high speed. He often does that skill with five consecutive hairpin turns. The Initial D course  I wanted to go to this stage and I went by my motorcycle. However, there are many mountain roads in this manga, and the name is different from reality only in this mountain road. In reality Mt. Akina is called Mt. Haruna. I don't know why it's called like this. Mt. Haruna is located in Gunma. In the manga, the prefectural  ...

Do you like motorcycles? I love motorcycles very much. On a motorcycle, you feel the wind and it feels good. And it takes me to various places. I think motorcycles are very wonderful. I went to a driving school to take a large motorcycle license this summer. With an ordinary motorcycle license, I can't ride motorcycles over 400cc, but I thought that wanted to ride more a larger motorcycles. The motorcycle used in the teaching of a large motorcycle license is a Honda NC750L. The maximum power is 37 PS and the weight is 228 kg. Unlike a commercial motorcycle, the driving school motorcycle has bumpers to protect the engine and lamps that show how fast the gears are. Compared with an ordinary motorcycle, the large motorcycle is more powerful. How ever, I thought the weight didn't change much. At the school you learn how to ride a motorcycle and how to ride on a public road. Unlike a car, there is no on-the-road training in the motorcycle lesson. The lesson contents are c...