Hayabusa Sewing machine
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This is the first time I actually noticed this; on the underside of the Gen II cam cover. Might check a few more cam covers I've got laying around to see if they're the same....
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#2
Saves on gaskets - just overlock the joins.
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#3
All my replies have vanished lol

JAMONE is a Jap robotics Co. though they don't do vehicle parts as far as I know???

But I do know that JANOME in Japanese has a direct translation as "snake eyes"
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#4
Jam One?
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#5
Maybe this is the answer...

http://www.twfic.com.tw/products_e/fic_products.htm
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#6
Nice piece of detective work Tempozzy. A Taiwanese die casting supplier. But it doesn't explain why a Suzuki part ended up with a sewing machine brand name. Maybe there were no engrish speakers that day in the plant?
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#7
I was a bit surprised to see this, and I'm now very curious about how much of our bikes are made 'in-house'. I know a lot of manufacturers outsource minor components these days, but I had thought that Suzuki would have been big enough to do all of their own casting. I certainly would have expected them to get their own name cast into parts made for them. Maybe the latest overlockers come with DOHC and they've done a parts sharing deal?

It looks like they might be making parts for more than just Suzuki and Yamaha.

I just googled 'my motorcycle sounds like a sewing machine' and found results for just about every manufacturer, even HD, which I would have associated with Tractors more than sewing machines.
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#8
The cam cover is Magnesium, perhaps they outsource exotic stuff?
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#9
Direct translation for Janome from Japanese into English is actually "Bull's Eye" as far as I can see.
Also not surprising when you discover that Suzuki also manufacture electronic eyelet buttonhole machines, so why not Janome making motorbike parts.Undecided
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#10
We've all been sewn up!
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#11
Stitched up more like it. Overclocking, overlocking, I just can't make sense of it anymore.
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#12
Does this mean we will see a Tathra Buttonhole Ride???
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(13-07-2014, 01:32pm)TempOzzy Wrote: I was a bit surprised to see this, and I'm now very curious about how much of our bikes are made 'in-house'.
It looks like they might be making parts for more than just Suzuki and Yamaha.

It makes sense I suppose. Having a machine to make every single part would cost a fortune so they outsource a lot of it. Does beg the question though, what happens when a factory goes down, like so many did back with the fukushima tsunami. If you need a gazillion parts from all over the planet, and you can't get one, then the bikes just won't get finished.
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#14
Just as well we have ours then....
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(18-07-2014, 05:53pm)gringo Wrote:
(13-07-2014, 01:32pm)TempOzzy Wrote: I was a bit surprised to see this, and I'm now very curious about how much of our bikes are made 'in-house'.
It looks like they might be making parts for more than just Suzuki and Yamaha.

It makes sense I suppose. Having a machine to make every single part would cost a fortune so they outsource a lot of it. Does beg the question though, what happens when a factory goes down, like so many did back with the fukushima tsunami. If you need a gazillion parts from all over the planet, and you can't get one, then the bikes just won't get finished.

Thats' a easy fix when Suzuki cant help call Leonard he has way more parts in stock Lol2 TrUe & he wont stitch you up Nerd
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