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�Roots. — A Journey to Kochi in Shikoku on Four Yamaha Motorcycles� Published in Web 55mph

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IWATA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. has published �Roots. -- A Journey to Kochi in Shikoku on Four Yamaha Motorcycles� in Web 55mph, an online 21st century version of the original 55mph magazine put out in the 1980s under the concept of �Motorcycle Utopia� and spanned ten volumes.


�Roots.� is the second team-up for Web 55mph between photographer Rowland Kirishima and motorcycle journalist Keisuke Kawanishi following their round-trip journey between Portugal and Morocco on the T�n�r� 700 published in 2019, entitled �This is Africa!� Kirishima and Kawanishi were joined by two other riders for this trip and all of them shared a mutual longing for the freedom taken away by the COVID-19 pandemic. This grand tour from Tokyo to Kochi, Shikoku, and back last November was to rediscover the draws of motorcycling and the joys of the journey.

https://global.yamaha-motor.com/stories/resonating-worlds/journey/r04/

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