Podcasts about Kawasaki

#535 EICMA Milan & Gareth's Bikes. Gareth explores the world's largest 2-wheeler show. Examining what the major bike manufactures are selling and discovering a myriad of new brands. Plus, we hear the story of Gareth's motorbike journey over the years.

Japan's Defense Ministry said Friday that it has decided to suspend Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. from bidding on its projects for two and a half months until March 11, citing data falsifications.

¿Qué diferencia a un buen aficionado, ese que sabe "mecaniquear" con criterio en su moto, de uno que simplemente destroza tornillos? A menudo, la respuesta está en su caja de herramientas. El "bueno" tiene el equipo adecuado, mientras que el "malo" ni siquiera sabe lo que le falta. En este vídeo no venimos a recomendarte el típico maletín de supermercado, ese que se oxida a los dos días, tiene holguras y acaba redondeando las cabezas de la tornillería de tu moto. Aquí no hay chollos ni ofertas milagrosas. Entendemos la herramienta no como un gasto, sino como una inversión. Una buena llave es eterna y, a la larga, te permite ahorrar mucho dinero y, sobre todo, mucho tiempo. Esta es la lista. 1. El Salvador Silencioso. Recuperador Magnético Flexible. Alrededor de 12€ Arrancamos con algo que cuesta lo mismo que un par de desayunos: unos 12 euros de media. Y os aseguro que os va a ahorrar horas de terapia psicológica. El recuperador magnético flexible. 2. El Pulmón del Taller. Compresor de Aire. A partir de 100 €. Los buenos. Aquí subimos la apuesta, pero te aseguro que me lo vas a agradecer Hablamos de una inversión de más de 100€ para un modelo de garaje de 24 o 50 litros. 3. La Guardiana del Aluminio. Llave Dinamométrica, unos 65€. Tercera herramienta, y aquí nos ponemos serios. Por unos 65€ tenéis una llave dinamométrica de rango medio bastante decente. 4. La Velocidad. Llave de Carraca "Buena” desde 40€. Una llave de carraca de calidad, solo el mango, ronda los 40€. ¿Por qué gastar 40€ en una sola llave si hay maletines completos por ese precio? Por los "dientes". Una carraca barata tiene pocos dientes y necesita mucho giro para hacer "clic". En una moto, donde apenas cabe la mano, a veces no tienes espacio para girar tanto. 5. El Secreto Japonés. Destornilladores JIS, unos 25€. ¿Qué narices es eso de JIS? Pon atención a esto porque es vital si tienes Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki o Yamaha. Por 25 euros te compras un juego de destornilladores JIS acrónimo de ¡Japanese Industrial Standard”. 6. El Estándar Europeo. Llaves Torx, alrededor de 30€. En cambio, si tu moto es europea como BMW, Ducati, KTM, Triumph… por ejemplo necesitas Torx. Un juego de calidad en forma de "L" o vasos ronda los 30€. 7. La Herramienta Definitiva. Llave-Tenaza unos 60€. E incluso menos. La Llave-Tenaza tipo Knipex de 250 mm cuesta unos 60€. Pero esta herramienta sustituye a todo un juego de llaves fijas grandes. Sus mandíbulas son lisas y paralelas y multiplican tu fuerza por diez. 8. Cirujano de Precisión. Alicates para Arandelas desde 15-20€ Son una herramienta específica, que te pueden salvar la vida: Los alicates para Circlips o grupillas. 9. El Ojo que no Miente. Calibre o Pie de Rey por menos de 30€ Por unos 30 euros tienes uno digital de acero inoxidable muy digno. ¿Para qué sirve? Para que el ojo no te engañe. ¿Ese tornillo es de métrica 6 o de 8? El calibre te lo dice. ¿Estás tensando la cadena? Mide la distancia exacta en el basculante para que la rueda quede alineada perfecta. ¿Están gastados tus discos de freno? Mide el grosor. Es la herramienta de diagnóstico más rápida que existe. 10. La Artillería Pesada. El "Destor-Golpe" (~25€) A veces las cosas se ponen feas. Y entra en juego este destornillador gordo y pesado que se usa golpeándolo con un martillo. Es la única forma humana de sacar los contrapesos del manillar que vienen pegados, o los tornillos de los discos de freno oxidados. El golpe clava la punta y fuerza el giro a la vez. Es esa herramienta que usas dos veces al año, pero esas dos veces te salva de tener que taladrar un tornillo y arruinar una pieza de 200€. Hagamos números. Muy bien, saquemos la calculadora. Si sumamos todo, montar este kit de herramientas "anti-tópicos", de calidad profesional y para toda la vida, nos sale por unos 440 o 450€. No hay que comprarlas todo el mismo día… Puede parecer dinero, pero pensadlo así: 450€ es menos de lo que cuesta UNA sola avería grave en taller oficial por haber pasado de rosca un cárter, o menos de lo que gastarás en grúas y recambios por mantenimientos mal hechos.

The Kawasaki KX450SR hasn't changed for 2026 but that doesn't stop us from going over the "race KX450" in order to let you know what the SR does better than the standard KX450. We also talk to a 2026 Yamaha YZ450F owner to hear his initial thoughts after riding the SR. Is the KX450SR the "in between" type of bike you need if you're trying to decide between the KX450 and YZ450F? Find out here!

Mariano ha tenido la oportunidad de probar el KYMCO CV3, el primer triciclo del fabricante taiwanés que viene a mover el avispero en un sector que estaba algo parado. Viene con un gran motor que ofrece unas buenas prestaciones y a un precio competitivo, pero como cualquier otro vehículo no es perfecto. VFR son unas siglas icónicas en la historia de Honda. El mayor fabricante del mundo siempre ha mostrado una deferencia especial por los motores V4, aunque ahora no tiene ningún modelo con esta configuración en su catálogo, algo que, por lo que hemos sabido, podría cambiar a medios plazo. Kawasaki continúa con el desarrollo del Corleo, un nuevo tipo de vehículo off-road (por llamarlo de alguna manera). Cuenta con cuatro patas y se pondrá a la venta en 2035. Emplea un motor de 2 tiempos alimentado por hidrógeno. La marca verde espera que sea una de las atracciones en la Expo 2030 de Arabia Saudita.

Miguel Ángel González Suárez te presenta el Informativo de Primera Hora en 'El Remate', el programa matinal de La Diez Capital Radio que arranca tu día con: Las noticias más relevantes de Canarias, España y el mundo, analizadas con rigor y claridad. Hoy hace un año: Koldo niega ante el Supremo que él o Ábalos hayan recibido ningún tipo de comisión por parte de Aldama … y hoy hace 365 días: El Gobierno obligará a los 'influencers' en redes sociales a rectificar cuando publiquen "noticias falsas o inexactas" Hoy se cumplen 1.405 días del cruel ataque e invasión de Rusia a Ucrania. 3 años y 295 días. Hoy es jueves 18 diciembre de 2025. Día Internacional del Migrante. Ante el aumento de los flujos migratorios en el mundo, en el año 2.000 la Asamblea General de la ONU proclamó el 18 de diciembre como el Día Internacional del Migrante, con la finalidad de impulsar el intercambio de experiencias y oportunidades de colaboración por parte de los países y regiones, ante las dificultades de la migración internacional. Con la creación de esta efeméride se pretende visibilizar los retos, dificultades y adversidades que deben afrontar los migrantes en el mundo, así como efectuar un llamamiento a las naciones del mundo para contribuir a que la migración sea un proceso seguro, regular y digno. 1812: En Cádiz tiene lugar el primer Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad de la Lotería Nacional. 1913.- El Gobierno español aprueba el Real Decreto sobre descentralización administrativa y mancomunidades provinciales. 1923.- Se firma el Estatuto de Tánger, acuerdo por el que la ciudad marroquí se convertía en un protectorado controlado conjuntamente por las autoridades españolas, francesas y británicas. Tal día como hoy, 18 de diciembre de 1946, nace Steven Spielberg, uno de los directores de cine más conocidos de los tiempos modernos, después de haber logrado el éxito financiero y crítico gracias a películas como Tiburón, Encuentros en la tercera fase o E.T. El extraterrestre, pero que solo ha ganado 2 premios de la Academia al mejor director (La Lista de Schindler y Salvar al Soldado Ryan) y uno a la mejor película (La Lista de Schindler). 1958.- Estados Unidos pone en órbita el SCORE, considerado el primer satélite de comunicaciones de la Historia. 1968: En Nueva York, la ONU aprueba la Resolución 2429, en la que declara que el mantenimiento de la situación colonial de Gibraltar por parte de los británicos es contrario a los propósitos y principios de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas. 1969.- Reino Unido aprueba en la Cámara de los Lores la abolición de la pena de muerte por delito de asesinato. 1981.- Un Real Decreto hace público el modelo oficial del escudo de España. 1995: En Europa, Javier Solana toma posesión como secretario general de la OTAN. 1997.- Japón inaugura la autopista bajo el mar más larga del mundo que une las ciudades de Kawasaki y Kizarasu a través de la bahía de Tokio. 2010: En Túnez comienzan las protestas antigubernamentales que iniciarán la Primavera Árabe. 2019.- Donald Trump se convierte en el tercer presidente de EEUU que se enfrenta en el Senado a un juicio político ("impeachment"), por abuso de poder y obstrucción al Congreso. Expectación del Parto de la Santísima Virgen, Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza, patrona de Logroño, y María de la O. Meloni considera "prematuro" el firmar ahora el acuerdo UE-Mercosur. Von der Leyen advierte de la "peligrosa" realidad de la UE en un orden mundial cambiante antes de la cumbre de la crisis. Arancel es la palabra del año 2025 para la FundéuRAE. Las operaciones de Estados Unidos en Venezuela, contra el derecho internacional. La Comisión Europea da marcha atrás en su plan de prohibir la venta de los coches que emiten CO2 a partir de 2035. Cerdán niega que haya financiación irregular en el PSOE y habla de "persecución propia de la Inquisición": "Soy inocente" El rey, a los nuevos fiscales del Estado: "Vuestro trabajo tendrá un impacto real en la sociedad" Canarias se ancla a los bajos sueldos y repite como la comunidad donde menos se cobra. El salario medio se sitúa en 1.891,31 euros de media al mes en las Islas, la segunda comunidad donde se trabaja más horas. CCOO Canarias ha informado este miércoles de que mantiene una huelga en el comercio el próximo 24 de diciembre tras no llegar a un acuerdo con la patronal en la última reunión de la mesa negociadora del convenio colectivo de pymes, en la que se volvió a rechazar las peticiones del sindicado. Ya es oficial: gafas y lentillas gratis para menores de 16 años. Esta ayuda responde a una necesidad de salud pública y a la voluntad de reducir barreras económicas. La subvención, que asciende a un máximo de 100 euros por persona beneficiaria, cubrirá el coste de productos ópticos esenciales, como monturas básicas con lentes graduadas orgánicas con antirreflejante, o lentes de contacto (lentillas) y soluciones de mantenimiento durante un año. Rechazo unánime a la tasa de Aena a las guaguas en los aeropuertos: “Un nuevo atraco a Canarias” Instituciones económicas, formaciones políticas y el subsector turístico muestran una oposición mayoritaria, cerrando filas para exigir su retirada. Un día como hoy en 1980 nació Christina Aguilera, cantante y actriz estadounidense.

Hey before I begin I just want to thank all of you who have joined the patreon, you guys are awesome. Please let me know what other figures, events or other things you want to hear about in the future and I will try to make it happen.   If you are a long time listener to the Pacific War week by week podcast over at KNG or viewer of my youtube channel you have probably heard me talk about Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Tiger of Malaya quite often. It goes without saying when it comes to Japanese generals of WW2 he stands out. Not just to me, from the offset of the war he made a large impression on westerners, he achieved incredible feats early on in the war. Now if you look up books about him, you will pretty much only find information in regards to his infamous war crimes trial. Hell it was so infamous the legal doctrine of hierarchical accountability for war crimes, whereby a commanding officer is legally responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by his subordinates, was created. This is known as the command responsibility or “the Yamashita standard”. His court case was very controversial, he remains a controversial figure, certainly to the people of territories he campaigned in, but I think what can be said of him the most is he was special amongst the Japanese generals. Anyways lets get the show on the road as they say.   So who was Yamashita? When he was 59 years old commanding forces in the Philippines against General Douglas MacArthur, he weighed 220 ls and stood 5 feet 9 inches. His girth pressed out against his green army uniform. He had an egg shaped head, balding, wide spaced eyes and a flat nose. He wore a short mustache, sort of like Hitlers, until it grayed then he shaved it off. He was not a very attractive man, Filipinos referred to him as “old potato face” while Americans called him “a florid, pig faced man”.   Tomobumi Yamashita was born in 1885, he was the second son of Dr. Sakichi Yamashita and Yuu Yamashita in Osugi village, on Shikoku island. Like most males of his day he was indoctrinated into military preparatory school from a young age. Yamashita had no chosen the army as a career, in his words ‘my father suggested the idea, because I was big and healthy, and my mother did not seriously object because she believed, bless her soul, that I would never pass the highly competitive entrance examination. If I had only been cleverer or had worked harder, I would have been a doctor like my brother”Yamashita would graduate from the 18th class of the IJA academy in november of 1905, ranked 16th out of 920 cadets.    In 1908 he was promoted to the rank of Lt and during WW1 he fought against Imperial German and Austro-Hungarian forces in the famous siege of Qingdao, which if you are interested I did an episode over on my Youtube channel about this battle. Its a very overlooked battle, but many histories firsts occurred at it like the first carrier attack. In 1916 he was promoted to captain and attended the 28th class of the Army War college to graduate sixth in his class that year. He also married Hisako Nagayama in 1916, she was the daughter of the retired General Nagayama.    It seems Yamashita's brush against the Germans in 1914 had a huge influence on him, because he became fascinated with Germany and would serve as assistant military attache at Bern and Berlin from 1919-1922. He spent his time in Germany alongside Captain Hideki Tojo, both men would run into each other countless times and become bitter rivals. Both men toured the western front, visiting Hamburg and witnessed first hand the crippling inflation and food prices that came from Germany's defeat. Yamashita said to Tojo then “If Japan ever has to fight any nation, she must never surrender and get herself in a state like this.” He returned to Japan in 1922, was promoted to major and served a few different posts in the Imperial Headquarters and Staff College. Yamashita became a leading member of the Kodoha faction, while Tojo became a leading member of the rival Toseiha faction. In 1927 Yamashita was sent again to Europe, this time to Vienna as a military attache. Just prior to departing he had invested in a business selling thermometers starting by one of his wife's relatives, the business failed horribly and Yamashita was tossed into debt, bailiffs literally came to seize his house. As told to us by his biographer “For a regular officer to have contracted such a debt, however innocently, was a disgrace. He felt he should resign his commission.” Yamashita's brother refused to allow him to quit, instructing him to leave for Vienna, while he resolved his debts. His days in Vienna were the best of his life, professed Yamashita. He studied economics at Vienna university and made friends with a Japanese widow, who introduced him to a German woman named Kitty and they had an affair. This would spring forward his reputation as an eccentric officer. Yamashita was obsessed over hygiene,and refused to eat fruit unless it was thoroughly washed. He avoided ice water, hated dancing and never learnt how to drive a car. One of his most notable quirks was his habit of falling asleep often during meetings where he legendarily would snore. Like I may have said in previous podcast and youtube episodes, this guy was quite a character, often described as a big bear.    Now this is not a full biography on Yamashita so I cant devolve to far into things, such as his first fall from grace. During the February 26th coup incident of 1936, Yamashita was a leading member of the Kodoha faction and helped mediate a peaceful end to the standoff, however in truth he was backing the coup. He simply managed to not get caught red handed at the time doing too much for the mutineers, regardless he lost favor with the outraged Emperor and many young captains whom he loved like sons killed themselves in disgrace. If you want to know more about the February coup of 1936, check out my series on Emperor Hirohito or General Ishawara, they both talk about it in depth and touch upon Yamashita's role a bit.    The coup led to the dissolvement of the Kodoha faction and the dominance of the Toseiha, led by Tojo. Yamashita tried to resign from the IJA, but his superiors dissuade him. He was relegated to a post in Korea, which honestly was a punishment. Yamashita would say “When I was posted to Korea, I felt I had been given a tactful promotion but that in fact my career was over. Even when I was given my first fighting company in North China, I still felt I had no future in the Army, so I was always on the front line, where the bullets flew the thickest. I sought only a place to die.”  He had some time to reflect upon his conduct while in Korea, he began to study Zen Buddhism. He was promoted to Lt General in November of 1937 and when the China war broke out he was one of those speaking out that the incident needed to end swiftly and that peaceful relations must be made with the UK and US. He received a unimportant post in the Kwantung army and in 1938 was assigned command of the IJA 4th division. He led the forces during in northern china against insurgents until he returned to Tokyo in July of 1940. His fellow officers lauded him as Japan's finest general. Meanwhile Tojo had ascended to war minister and one of his first moves was to send a delegation to Germany. Tojo considered Yamashita a ruthless and forceful commander and feared he would become a powerful rival against him one day. Yamashita would go on the record to say then “I have nothing against Tojo, but he apparently has something against me.” You see, Yamashita had no political ambitions, unlike Tojo who was by nature a political monster. “My life, is that of a soldier; I do not seek any other life unless our Emperor calls me.” In late 1940, Tojo asked Yamashita to lead a team of 40 experts on a 6 month train tour of Germany and Italy, a move that kept him out of Tokyo, because Tojo was trying to solidify his political ambitions. This is going to become a looming theme between the two men.   He was presented to Adolf Hitler in January of 1941, passing along messages from Tojo and publicly praising the Fuhrer, though privately he was very unimpressed by the man  “He may be a great orator on a platform, with his gestures and flamboyant way of speaking. But standing behind his desk listening he seems much more like a clerk.” Hitler pressed upon him to push Japan to declare war on Britain and the US. At the time of course Japan was facing China and had two major conflicts with the USSR, thus this was absolutely not in her interest. “My country is still fighting in China, and we must finish that war as soon as possible. We are also afraid that Russia may attack us in Manchuria. This is no time for us to declare war on other countries.” Yamashita hoped to inspect Germany's military techniques and technology to help Japan. Hitler promised open exchanges of information stating “All our secrets are open to you,”, but this would prove to be a lie. “There were several pieces of equipment the Germans did not want us to see. Whenever I tried to persuade the German General Staff to show us things like radar—about which we had a rudimentary knowledge—the conversation always turned to something else.”   Yamashita met with field Marshal Hermann Goring who gave him an overview of the war in europe. Goring would complain about Yamashita falling asleep during lectures and meetings and he believed the man was drunk often. Yamashita met Benito Mussolini in June of 1941 receiving a similar rundown to what he got in Germany. Yamashita visited Kitty in Vienna for a quick fling, but overall the trip deeply impacted Yamashita's resolve that Japan should stay out of the Europeans war and that Germany made a grievous error invading the USSR in June of 1941. This is what he said the members of the commission “You know the results of our inspection as well as I do. I must ask you not to express opinion in favor of expanding the alliance between Japan, Germany and Italy. Never suggest in your report that Japan should declare war on Great Britain and the United States. We must not and cannot rely upon the power of other nations. Japan needs more time, particularly as there may be aggression against us from Russia. We must have time to rebuild our defense system and adjust the whole Japanese war machine. I cannot repeat this to you often enough.” His report was similar, and it really pissed off Tojo who was trying to develop plans for a war against America. Yamashita would then get exiled to Manchuria in July of 1941, but Tojo's resentment towards him could only go so far, because Yamashita was one of their best generals and in his planned war against Britain and America, he would need such a man.   Yamashita's time in Europe reshaped his views on how to conduct war. He saw first hand blitzkrieg warfare, it seems it fascinated him. He consistently urged the implementation of new proposals calling for the streamlining of air arms; to mechanize the Army; to integrate control of the armed forces in a defense ministry coordinated by a chairman of Joint Chiefs of staff; to create a paratroop corps and to employ effective propaganda. Basically he saw what was working for the Germans against the allies and wanted Japan to replicate it. Tojo did not like many of the proposal, hated the fact they were coming from Yamashita, so he obviously was not keen on making them happen. Luckily for Yamashita he would be given a chance to implement some of his ideas in a big way.   On November 6th of 1941, Lt General Yamashita was appointed commander of the 25th Japanese army. His orders were to seize the Malay Peninsula and then the British naval base at Singapore. The Malaya Peninsula snakes 700 miles south of Thailand, a rugged sliver of land that constricts at its narrowest point to about 60 miles wide. It hold mountains that split the peninsula in half, some going as high as 7000 feet. During this time Malaya produced around 40% of the worlds rubber, 60% of its tin, two resources vital for war. At its very southern tip lies Singapore, a diamond shaped island connected to the mainland by a 1115 stone causeway. Singapore's largest asset was its naval base guarding the passage from the Pacific and Indian oceans. Together Malay and Singapore represented the key to controlling what Japan called the Southern Resource Area.   Singapore was known as the gibraltar of the east for good reason. It was a massively fortified naval base. The base had been developed between 1923-1938 and cost 60 million pounds, around 2 billion pounds today. It was 21 square miles, had the largest dry dock in the world, the 3rd largest floating dock and enough fuel tanks to support the entire royal navy for 6 months. She was defended by 15 inch naval guns stationed at the Johre battery, Changi and Buona vista battery. And despite the infamous myth some of you may have heard, these guns were fully capable of turning in all directions including the mainland. For those unaware a myth perpetuated after the fall of Singapore that her large 15 inch guns could not turn to the mainland and that this spelt her doom, no it was not that, it was the fact they mostly had armor piercing shells which are using to hit ships and not land targets. Basically if you fire an armor piercing shell at land it imbeds itself then explodes, while HE shells would have torn any Japanese army to pieces. Alongside the 15 inch monsters, there were countless other artillery pieces such as 9.2 inch guns. By December of 1941 Malaya and Singapore held 164 first line aircraft out of a total of 253 aircraft, but many of the fighters were the obsolete Brewster F2A Buffalo, a pretty slow, fat little beast that could take a licking as it was armored, but against the Zero fighter it was unbelievably outmatched in speed and maneuverability.    The Japanese acquired a major gift prior to the outbreak of war. On november 11th, 1940, the SS Automedon, a German raider attacked the HMS Atlantis which was carrying documents intended for the British far east command. The documents indicated the British fleet was not going to help Singapore; that Britain would not declare war if Thailand was invaded and that Hong Kong was expendable. The Germans gave the documents to the Japanese who were very excited by the information.    Starting in January of 1941, Colonel Masanobu Tsuji led the Taiwan Army Research section based on Formosa to investigate how a campaign could be waged in Malay and Singapore. His findings on the defenses of Malay and Singapore were summed up in these 3 points: 1. Singapore Fortress was solid and strong facing the sea, but vulnerable on the peninsular side facing the Johore Strait;  Newspaper reports of a strong Royal Air Force (RAF) presence were propaganda;  Although British forces in Malaya numbered from five to six divisions (well over 80,000 men), less than half were Europeans.    Now just a little bit about Tsuji as he was to become the chief of staff operations and planning under Yamashita. Tsuji was extremely insubordinate and a political schemer. He was a Toseiha faction fanatic, loyal to Tojo and thus definitely an enemy to Yamashita. Yamashita wrote of Tsuji in his war diary “is egotistical and wily. He is a sly dog and unworthy to serve the country. He is a manipulator to be carefully watched.” Tsuji would go on to have a infamous reputation for ordering atrocities in the name of his superiors, often without them knowing and this would be very much the case under Yamashita. Now using Tsuji's intelligence Yamashita began plans at his HQ at Samah, a port on Hainan island, starting in November of 1941 on how to launch the campaign. He was initially offered 5 divisions for the invasion, but he felt he could accomplish the objective with only three. There are a few reasons why he believed this; first, Tsuji's research suggested the peninsula roads would be the center of the battlefront and that the flanks would extend no more than a km or so to the left or right due to the dense jungle terrain (in fact Yamashita was planning to assault from the jungle specifically); 2nd intelligence indicated the defending troops were not of the highest caliber (the British were busy in Europe thus many of the troops in southeast asia were poorly trained, half were british regulars the rest were Australian, Indian and Malayan); 3rd Yamashita was aware “the Japanese army were in the habit of flinging more troops into the battle than could possibly be maintained” boy oh boy tell that one to the future boys on Guadalcanal. Thus he calculated 3 divisions was the maximum to be fed, equipped and supplied. Based on his recommendations the 25th army was created with 3 divisions; the 5th under Lt General Takuma Matsui; 18th under Lt General Renya Mutaguchi and the Imperial guards division of Lt General Takuma Nishimura. Supporting these would be two regiment of heavy field artillery and the 3rd tank brigade. Something that made Yamashita's campaign quite interesting was the usage and amount of tanks. He was invading with around 200 or so tanks consisting of the Type 95 Ha-Go light tank, type 97 Chi-Ha and Type 89 I-Go medium tanks and Type 97 Te-Ke tankettes. For aircraft he had the 3rd Air division, 459 aircraft strong with an additional 159 aircraft from the IJN to support them. The 3rd air division had a variety of aircraft such as Nakajima Ki-27 Nate's, Nakajima ki-43 Oscars, Kitsubishi ki-51 Sonia's, Kawasaki ki-48 Lily's, Mitsubishi ki-21 sally's, Mitsubishi ki-30 Ann's, Mitsubishi ki-15 babs and Mitsubishi ki-46 dinahs. For the IJN it was the 22nd air flotilla using Mitsubishi G3M1 Nell's, Mitsubishi A5M4 Claudes and some A6M Zeros. To say it was a lot of firepower at his disposal is an understatement, Yamashita was packing heat, heat he could use in a blitzkrieg fashion.   His staff at Samah identified 5 operational objectives: 1 Simultaneous capture of Singora and Patani, Thailand and Kota Bharu, Malaya.  2 Capture of all enemy airfields in southern Thailand and Malaya.  3 Occupation of Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.  4 Occupation of Johore Bahru, and control of Johore Strait.  5 Conquest of Singapore.    Colonel Tsuji, appointed Chief of Operations and Planning for the 25th Army, proposed the following plan which was readily approved:  Land the main strength of the 5th Division simultaneously and without warning at Singora and Patani, and at the same time land a powerful section of the 18th Division to attack Kota Bharu.  The troops disembarked at Singora and Patani to press forward immediately to attack the line of the Perak River Hand capture its bridge and the Alor Star aerodrome.  The troops landed at Kota Bharu to press forward along the eastern coast as far as Kuantan.    The landing at Kota Bharu, the only one in Malaya was expected to be opposed and quite risky. But if it was successful, it would create a useful diversion away from the main force landings in Thailand.   The landings took place around 2:15am local time on December 8th, about an hour and 20 minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The landings went largely unopposed, except at Kota Bahru where the Japanese saw heavy resistance. The British had anticipated this landing point and created operation Matador, a plan to pre-emptively invade southern thailand to secure defensive lines against the Japanese, however this plan was never accepted by British high command for obvious political reasons. But on December 5th, with a Japanese invasion looking certain, suddenly London gave permission to the Far east commanders to decide if Operation matador should be activated or not. The commander in Malaya, General Arthur Percival recommended forestalling it, fearing to violate Thai sovereignty, which ultimately would be the doom of a defense for Malaya.   At the battle of Kota Bharu, the 9th infantry division of Major General Barstow attempted holding off the Japanese from taking the important Kota Bharu airfield. The 8th brigade of Billy Key had fortified the beaches with pillboxes, barbed wire and land mines. The Japanese took heavy losses, but they were able to find gaps and fill them up until Brigadier Key had to ask permission to pull out. The royal air force at Kota Bharu tossed Hudson bombers to hit the troop transports, but it was a suicide mission to do so. Meanwhile the IJA 5th division landed at Pattani and Songkhla in Thailand while the Imperial guards division marched over the border from French Indochina. The Japanese encountered very little resistance, the leader of Thailand Plaek Pibulsonggram had been trying to get assurances from the allies and Japanese all the way up until the invasion, once the Japanese landed he knew his best option was to play nice and sign an armistice. This basically spelt doom for malaya as the Japanese were given access to Thailand's airfields which they used to smash the forward airfields in Malaya.   The first day of aerial encounters were a catastrophe for the British. General Percival would comment “The rapidity with which the Japanese got their air attacks going against our aerodromes was quite remarkable. Practically all the aerodromes in Kelantan, Kedah, Province Wellesley, and Penang, were attacked, and in most cases fighters escorted the bombers. The performance of Japanese aircraft of all types, and the accuracy of their bombing, came as an unpleasant surprise. By the evening our own air force had already been seriously weakened.” Brigadier Key withdrew after causing an estimated 800 casualties upon the Japanese while taking roughly 465. While Kota Bharu was being fought over, Percival unleashed Operation Krohcol, a 2.0 of Matador seeing British forces cross into Thailand to intercept the incoming enemy. It was an absolute disaster, the British attackers were defeated not only by the Japanese 5th division, but some Royal Thai police also defended their territory. The operation had basically become a race to who could seize the important focal point first and the Japanese took it first thus winning decisively. To add to that misery, force Z, consisting of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales,, battlecruiser Repulse and 4 destroyers tried to intercept the Japanese invasion fleet only to be utterly destroyed by overwhelming Japanese airforces.   Within 4 days of the landings, the 5th division advanced from Singora through the town of Jitra to capture the RAF airfield at Alor star, around 100 miles away. Yamashita managed this using flanking techniques that saw his army take town after town and airfield after airfield. There were numerous natural obstacles to the advance such as dense jungles, very long supply lines, torrential rain and heat, but he had a secret weapon, bicycles. At Jitra Percival made his first major stand. Holding Jitra would safeguard the northern airfields of Malaya, but it was a folly to do so as the airfields in question were not provided adequate aircraft and the British lacked something extremely important to be able to defend themselves, tanks. Colonel Tsuji saw the fighting at Jitra first hand and reported “Our tanks were ready on the road, and the twenty or so enemy armored cars ahead were literally trampled underfoot … The enemy armored cars could not escape by running away, and were sandwiched between our medium tanks … It was speed and weight of armor that decided the issue.” The British had spread themselves far too thinly across a 14 mile front with jungle on their right flank and rubber plantations and mangrove swamps to their left. Yamashita used a innovative blitzkrieg like tactic, he combined his air, artillery, tanks and bicycle infantry to punch holes in concentrated attacks forcing allied defenders to withdraw. As Percival would write later in his memoirs “This withdrawal would have been difficult under the most favorable conditions. With the troops tired, units mixed as the result of the fighting, communications broken and the night dark, it was inevitable that orders should be delayed and that in some cases they should never reach the addressees. This is what in fact occurred … the withdrawal, necessary as it may have been, was too fast and too complicated for disorganized and exhausted troops, whose disorganization and exhaustion it only increased”    Yamashita had ingeniously thought of employing large numbers of bicycles for his infantry so they could keep up momentum and speed with his mechanized forces. Oh and he didn't bring thousands of bicycles over to Malaya, the real genius was that they were there ready for him. His intelligence prior to the invasion indicated nearly all civilians in malaya had bicycles, so when the Japanese came over they simply stole them. Half of Yamashitas troops moved in motor vehicles while the rest road on 18,000 bicycles. As noted by Tsuji “With the infantry on bicycles, there was no traffic congestion or delay. Wherever bridges were destroyed the infantry continued their advance, wading across the rivers carrying their bicycles on their shoulders, or crossing on log bridges held up on the shoulders of engineers standing in the stream.” They Japanese overwhelmed the defenders who were forced to fight, flee into the jungles or flee along the roads where they were simply outsped by the faster Japanese. The defenders left numerous stores of food, abandoned vehicles, and supplies that Yamashita's men would dub “churchill's allowance”. British Lt Colonel Spencer Chapmanwas forced to hide on the sides of roads watching Japanese pedal past remarking “The majority were on bicycles in parties of forty or fifty, riding three or four abreast and talking and laughing just as if they were going to a football match.” The Japanese had the ability to carry their gear on the bicycles, giving them an enormous advantage over the allies fleeing on foot. The Japanese could travel faster, further and less fatigued. When the British destroyed 250 bridges during their flight, “the Japanese infantry (to continue) their advance, wading across the rivers carrying their bicycles on their shoulders, or crossing on log bridges held up on the shoulders of engineers standing in the stream”. The British could not escape the bicycle blitzkrieg as it became known, countless were forced to surrender under constant pressure and relentless pursuit.    Alongside the bicycle warfare, whenever Yamashita faced terrain unsuitable for his tanks, he ordered amphibious landings further south to outflank the enemy's  rear.   Meanwhile the war in the air went equally terrible for the allies. The RAF had pulled back its best pilots and aircraft to deal with the war for Britain against the Luftwaffe. 21 airfields were in Malaya and Singapore, few of them had modern facilities, only 15 concrete runways. The heavy rain made the grass airstrips unusable. All the airfields were allocated around 8 heavy and 8 light anti aircraft guns. Quality radar units were completely inadequate. The Super Spitfires and Hyper Hurricanes were mostly in Britain fighting the Germans, while Buffaloes were allocated to Malaya. The Japanese airforces easily overcame the allied opposition and established air superiority quickly. Launching from airfields in Vietnam, they bombed all the airfields into submission and continuously applied pressure to Singapore. . The aerial dominance of the Zero and ‘Oscar' fighters served to undermine the morale of the British infantryman on the ground. As historian H. P. Wilmot has observed, “in the opening phase of the war the Zero-sen was just what the Japanese needed, and the Allies were devastated by the appearance of a ‘super fighter.' To add insult to injury, every airfield taken starting at the most northern going further and further south towards Singapore offered the Japanese new launching points to make for faster attack.   Yamashita's forces reached the southern tip of the peninsula in just 8 weeks, his men had covered some 700 miles, about 12 miles a day on average. They fought 95 large and smaller battles doing so. Multiple lines of defense were erected one after another to try and halt the Japanese advance, to kill their momentum. Starting at the beach landings, to Jitra, then to Kampar, over the Slim river, then Johor. The British failed to employ “leave behind forces” to provide guerilla warfare in lost territories leading not only the Japanese to easily consolidate their gains, the Thai's also came down and grabbed some territory. At the battle of Muar Major General Gordon Bennet deployed the allied defenders south of the Muar River and it was widely believed here they would finally halt the Japanese. Then the Imperial Guards division outflanked them performing an amphibious landing and advancing down the coastal route. The 5th Japanese division followed a parallel route through the center and the 18th division landed near Endau. The allies were thus surrounded and took heavy casualties, countless were forced to flee through swamps and thick jungle abandoned their stuff. Gordons 45th brigade were absolutely shattered, effectively disbanded and left north of the Muar river as the rest of the allies fled south. The defeat at Muar broke the British belief they could hold even a toehold on Malay. Percivals strategy to fight delaying actions until the arrival of reinforcements to Singapore had fatally undermined his troops ability to hold onto defensive positions. As the British governor of the Johore straits settlement, Sir Shenton Thomas would say on January 6th ‘“We … have gone in for mechanized transport to the nth degree. It is a fearsomely cumbersome method. We have pinned our faith to the few roads but the enemy used tracks and paths, and gets round to our rear very much as he likes.”” Yet alongside the conquest came a series of atrocities.    At the Parit Sulong Bridge south of the Muar, Captain Rewi Snelling was left behind with 150 wounded Australian and Indian soldiers not able to trek south. The Imperial guards division herded them into buildings, denied them medical treatment, many of the Indians were beheaded, others shot. This become known as the parit sulong massacre. Its hard to saw what Yamashita would have known about this incident, it technically was under the command of Takuma nishimura. On January 22nd, Nishimura gave the orders for prisoners to be forced outside, doused with petrol and set on fire. Nishimura would be sentenced to life in prison by a Singapore court, but on a flight back to Japan he was hijacked by Australian military police in Hong Kong who grabbed him and held a trial for the Parit Sulong massacre, finding him guilty and hanging him on june 11th of 1951.    When the Japanese reached the straits of Johore, Yamashita took several days to perform reconnaissance, allowing his forces to regroup and prepare to attack the massive fortress. His plan for the invasion would see the Imperial guards perform a feint attack on the northeast side of Singapore, landing on the nearby Palau Ubin island on february 7th. The 5th and 18th division would remain concealed in the jungle until the night of the night of the 8th when they would cross the Johore and hit the northwest side of Singapore. The causeway to Singapore had been blown up by the retreating British, but the ability for Singapore to defend itself from a northern attack was lackluster. When Churchill was told by Wavell the Japanese sat on the other side of the Johore strait ready to attack the fortress he said ““I must confess to being staggered by Wavell's telegram. It never occurred to me for a moment that … Singapore … was not entirely fortified against an attack from the Northwards …””   With barely enough supplies or logistical support for his campaign, Yamashita's rapid advance down the Malay peninsula walked a tightrope of what was possible. His 70,000 men of which 30,000 were frontline troops had overcome a British force double their number. In Japan he garnered the epithet “Tiger of Malaya”, which ironically he was not too happy about. Later on in the war he would bark at a German attache “I am not a tiger. The tiger attacks its prey in stealth but I attack the enemy in a fair play”.   By this point Singapore had swollen from a population of 550,000to nearly a million. Percival had a total of 70,000 infantry of mixed experience plus 15,000 clerks and support staff to man lines if necessary. 38 battalions, 17 Indian, 13 British, 6 Australian and 2 Malayan. He placed his weakest troops west of the causeway, near the abandoned naval base rather than nearby the airfield which he considered was going to be Yamashita's thrust. He placed his best forces over there, which would prove fatally wrong as Yamashita hit west of the causeway. Yamashita meanwhile could only muster 30,000 troops, he was outnumbered 2:1 and amphibious assaults called for the attacker to hold a 2:1 advantage for success. Yamashita's men were exhausted, they had suffered 4565 casualties, roughly 1793 deaths in their 55 day advance south. Worse yet, Yamashita had a critical supply issue. He had greatly exceeded his supply lines and had been surviving on the abandoned churchill stores along the way. His ammunition was critical low, it is said he was down to 18 functional tanks, allowing his men to fire 100 rounds per day, the fuel ran out, and as Yamashita put it “My attack on Singapore was a bluff—a bluff that worked. I had 30,000 men and was outnumbered more than three to one. I knew that if I had to fight for long for Singapore, I would be beaten. That is why the surrender had to be at once. I was very frightened all the time that the British would discover our numerical weakness and lack of supplies and force me into disastrous street fighting.” He told his men of the 5th and 18th division not to build any cooking fires so they could conceal their positions in the jungle as he gathered hundreds of collapsible boats and other crafts to ford the strait. He gathered 40 divisional commanders and senior officers to a rubber plantation and with a flushed red face read out his attack orders while pouring them Kikumasamune (ceremonial wine). He made a traditional toast and said “It is a good place to die; surely we shall conquer”. He had to get the British to surrender quickly, he had to essentially ‘bluff” his enemy. He had to make the British think he was fully armed and supplied for a prolonged siege, how could he do so? He fired his artillery like a mad man, knowing full well they would run out of shells.   Starting on February 3rd,  Yamashita's artillery supported by aerial bombings hit Singapore for 5 days. On the night of the 7th, 400 Imperial Guards crossed to the Ibin island performing their feint attack. Percivals attention was grabbed to the east successfully, while on the night of the 8th the 5th and 18th divisions assembled carefully at the water's edge. At 8:30pm the first wave of 4000 Japanese troops crossed the Johore strait aboard 150 small vessels. The noise of their engines was drowned out by artillery. The thinly spread Australian lines, 3000 or so men led by Major General Bennet were breached fast leading to pockets of surrounded australian troops. As Lewis Gunner cliff olsen recalled “We were horribly spread out and it was pitch black and they [Japanese troops] were very hard to see. They walked through us half the time.” A beachhead was formed, a soon 14,000 Japanese had crossed by dawn.    Communications broke down for the allies, Percival unwilling to believe the Japanese's main thrust was in the west declined to send reinforcements there. When he did finally realize the main thrust was in the west he began to withdraw troops from quiet sectors and built up a reserve. The Japanese held air supremacy and their artillery was fierce. The big 15 inch guns of singapore held mostly armor piercing shells designed to hit ships, there were few HE shells available. When they fired upon the Japanese the shells would hit the ground they would embed deeply before exploding doing little damage. The defenders had no tanks, basically no more aircraft. The last departing ships fled the scene as everything was burning chaos around them. Morale was breaking for the defenders. By the 9th, Japanese bombers were raining bombs on allied positions unopposed. Bennet was forced to pull men back to a new line of defense from the east of the Tengah airfield to the north of Jurong. Poor communications hampered the northern sector of Brigadier Duncan Maxwell whose troops actually battered the hell out of the Imperial Guards who had landed at 10pm on the 9th. The Imperial guards gradually managed a foothold on a beach, but Maxwell feared encirclement and withdrew his men against direct orders of Bennet. The retreat opened up the flank of the 11th indian division who were overrun. All of the beaches west of the causeway fell to the enemy, when they did Yamashita brought over his tanks to smash the new Jurong line. The Japanese could have potentially stormed the city center at this point, but they held back, because in reality, Percival had created a formidable reserve in the middle. The Australian 22nd brigade took the brunt of the fighting.    Yamashita was running out of reserves and his attacks were reaching their limit, but he needed the battle to end swiftly. Yamashita was shocked and shaken when he received a report that the British troop strength within the city was twice what they believed. With covert desperation, Yamashita ordered his artillery to fire until their last rounds and sent Percival a demand for surrender. “In the spirit of chivalry we have the honour of advising your surrender. Your army, founded on the traditional spirit of Great Britain, is defending Singapore, which is completely isolated, and raising the fame of Great Britain by the ut¬ most exertions and heroic feelings. . . . From now on resistance is futile and merely increases the danger to the million civilian inhabitants without good reason, exposing them to infliction of pain by fire and sword. But the development of the general war situation has already sealed the fate of Singapore, and the continuation of futile resistance would only serve to inflict direct harm and in¬ juries to thousands of non-combatants living in the city, throwing them into further miseries and horrors of war. Furthermore we do not feel you will in¬ crease the fame of the British Army by further resistance.”   Singapore had received another order prior to this from Churchill “It is certain that our troops on Singapore Island greatly outnumber any Japanese that have crossed the Straits. We must defeat them. Our whole fighting reputation is at stake and the honour of the British Empire. The Americans have held out on the Bataan Peninsula against far greater odds, the Russians are turning back the picked strength of the Germans, the Chinese with almost complete lack of mod¬ ern equipment have held the Japanese for AVi years. It will be disgraceful if we yield our boasted fortress of Singapore to inferior enemy forces. There must be no thought ofsparing troops or the civil population and no mercy must be shown to weakness in any shape or form. Commanders and senior officers must lead their troops and if necessary die with them. There must be no question or thought of surrender. Every unit must fight it out to the end and in close contact with the enemy. ... I look to you and your men to fight to the end to prove that the fighting spirit that won our Empire still exists to enable us to defend it.”   What was Percival to do? The Japanese had seized control over Singapore water reservoirs, the population would die of thirst within 2-3 days. Japanese shells were causing fires and death everywhere. People were panicking, trying to get on the very last boats leaving the port, even though that surely meant death to the IJN. An American sailor recalled “There was a lot of chaos and people killed on the docks during these bombardments. Everywhere you looked there was death. Even in the water there were dead sharks and people floating all around.” Defeatism was endemic. Australian troops were overheard saying “Chum, to hell with Malaya and Singapore. Navy let us down, air force let us down. If the bungs [natives] won't fight for their bloody country, why pick on me?” Sensing a complete collapse Percival formed a tight defense arc in front of the city, and by the 13th his commanders were telling him they believed Singapore was already doomed. Wavell was asked for approval for surrender, but he replied  “to continue to inflict maximum damage on enemy for as long as possible by house-to-house fighting if necessary.” Percival then told him the water reservoirs were taken, so Wavell sent back “YOUR GALLANT STAND IS SERVING A PURPOSE AND MUST BE CONTINUED TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE”   On the 15th, Percival held a morning conference reported there was no more fuel, field gun nor bofor ammunition. In 24 hours their water would be done. He told them he would ask for a ceasefire at 4pm, by the end of the day Wavell gave him permission to surrender. Over at his HQ on the Bukit Timah heights, Yamashita was staring at a Union Jack fluttering over Fort Canning. Then a field phone rang, and a frontline commander reported the British were sending out a flag of truce.   Meanwhile back on February the 14th, Japanese forces reached the Alexandra Barracks hospital at 1pm. At 1:40pm a British Lt greeting them waving a white flag and was bayoneted on the spot. The Japanese stormed the hospital and murdered the staff and patients. 200 male staff and patients, badly wounded were bound over night and marched to an industrial estate half a mile away. Anyone who collapsed was bayoneted. The survivors of the march were formed into small groups and hacked to death or bayoneted. For a few days over 320 men and women were massacred. Only 5 survivors would give recounts of the event. It is suspected by historians that Tsuji was the architect of the Alexandra hospital massacre. This is because he was the instigator of countless atrocities he ordered unbeknownst to his superior commanders such as Yamashita.    Percival was ordered to go to the Ford motor factory to where he met with Yamashita. Yamashita was hiding his surprise that the surrender party came and as he glanced at the surrender terms he said through his interpreter “The Japanese Army will consider nothing but surrender,” Yamashita knew his forces were on the verge of running out of ammunition and he still held half troops Percival did, he was anxious Percival would figure it out. Percival replied “I fear that we shall not be able to submit our final reply before ten-thirty p.m.,” Percival had no intention of fighting on he simply wanted to work out specific details before signing the surrender. Yamashita was sure Percival was stalling. “Reply to us only whether our terms are acceptable or not. Things must be settled swiftly. We are prepared to resume firing.Unless you do surrender, we will have to carry out our night attack as scheduled.”” Percival replied ““Cannot the Japanese Army remain in its present position? We can resume negotiations again tomorrow at five-thirty A.M”. Yamashita screamed “Nani! I want the hostilities to cease tonight and I want to remind you there can be no arguments.” Percival replied ““We shall discontinue firing by eight-thirty p.m. Had we better remain in our present positions tonight?” Yamashita said yes and that firing would cease at 8:30pm and that 1000 allied men could keep arms to maintain order within the city. Yamashita stated “You have agreed to the terms but you have not yet made yourself clear as to whether you agree to surrender or not.” Percival cleared his throat and gave a simple nod. Yamashita looked at his interpreter “There's no need for all this talk. It is a simple question and I want a simple answer.” He turned to Percival and shouted, “We want to hear ‘Yes' or ‘No' from you! Surrender or fight!” Percival finally blurted out  “Yes, I agree. I have a request to make. Will the Imperial Army protect the women and children and British civilians?”Yamashita replied  “We shall see to it. Please sign this truce agreement”. At 7:50 the surrender was signed off, 40 minutes later Singapore was in the hands of the Japanese. In 70 days Yamashita took at the cost of 9824 casualties, had seized Malaya and Singapore, nearly 120,000 British surrendered. It was the greatest land victory in Japanese history.   Churchill called the fall of Singapore to the Japanese "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history" Churchills physician Lord Moran wrote The fall of Singapore on February 15 stupefied the Prime Minister. How came 100,000 men (half of them of our own race) to hold up their hands to inferior numbers of Japanese? Though his mind had been gradually prepared for its fall, the surrender of the fortress stunned him. He felt it was a disgrace. It left a scar on his mind. One evening, months later, when he was sitting in his bathroom enveloped in a towel, he stopped drying himself and gloomily surveyed the floor: 'I cannot get over Singapore', he said sadly   With the fall of singapore came another atrocity, the Sook Ching massacre. After February 18th, the Japanese military began mass killings of what they deemed undesirables, mostly ethnic Chinese. It was overseen by the Kempeitai and did not stop in Singapore, but spread to Malaya. It seems the aim of the purge was to intimidate the Chinese community from performing any resistance. According to postwar testimony taken from a war correspondent embedded with the 25th army, Colonel Hishakari Takafumi, he stated an order went out to kill 50,000 Chinese, of which 20 percent of the total was issued by senior officials on Yamashita's operations staff, most likely Tsuji. It is certain at the behest of Tsuji the orders were extended to Malay. The death toll is a tricky one, the Japanese went on the record to admit to 6000 murders, the Singaporean Chinese community and the Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew allege 70,000-100,000. Historians analyzing the scale of discovered mass graves after some decades think around 25,000-50,000. How much Yamashita knew of the massacre is debatable, the orders came from his office after all, but it seems Tsuji had orchestrated it. Many of Japan's generals wanted Yamashita to be appointed war minister, a move that obviously threatened then Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who feared his rival. Tojo retaliated, ordering Japan's new war hero back to Manchuria. On the surface, the assignment appeared worthy as Yamashita would serve as the first line of defense against a possible Soviet invasion. But since the two nations had signed a neutrality pact in April 1941, and Soviets were bogged down fighting the Germans, immediate war appeared unlikely. In reality, Tojo had parked Yamashita on the war's sidelines. Tojo went even further, he barred Yamashita any leave in Tokyo, preventing him from visiting his wife as well as from delivering a speech he had written for the emperor. No worries though, an aide of Yamashita's sent him three geishas. Allegedly he said this “I know they want to please me with these girls. But send them back—and don't forget to tip them.” The Tiger of Malaya would maintain a low profile in Manchuria where he received a promotion to full General. As months fell to years Yamashita sat on the sidelines helpless to aid the Japanese forces. His exile would come to an end in 1944 when Tojo was outed and the Tiger was required to try and save the Philippines from General Douglas MacArthur.

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Send us a textSupport the showSend emails to contact@nocomotopodcast.com, it doesn't have to be important. Check out our Patreon Or join the Discord Check out these other awesome Motorcycle Podcasts Creative Riding- Our Sister Show on the Moto1 Podcast Network! Moto Hop - Our friends Matt and Missy make T shirts, stickers, and this quality podcast. They are quick to point out our inaccuracies. Thanks guys. Cleveland Moto - Probably the most knowledgeable group of riders with a podcast. When it comes to motorcycles anyway. You're Motorcycling Wrong - Remember Lemmy from Revzilla? Of course you do, you could never forget. He and his friends make this awesome show. Motorcycles and Misfits - A podcast starring Bagel

Radio TRO is brought to you in part by:Twisted Road - Motorcycle Rental in the USAVisit Twisted.TRO.bike to get a FREE riding day!Brian plays tire cop, newbie whisperer and Tiger 800 hype man while nudging everyone toward TRO's Road Rubber rankings. He shrugs at Indy's winter chaos, brags about scoring cheap Angel STs and dares tire makers to let "two gorillas" shred their products. His starter-bike gospel stays the same: finish MSF, try lots of bikes, get ABS and stop pretending you need a rocket when a 300-400 cc or mild 650 will do.Robin swoons over the Tiger's gadgets, trolls a friend about it for sport and confesses ongoing love for his current bike. He's cranking out a GSX-8R valve-check story, steering newbies toward sensible bikes from the Rebel 300 to the Z500 and lecturing them to find mentors instead of influencers. Next, he slips in a hack or two on how "nitrile gloves solve everything."Joanne hunts used boots like a thrift-store sniper, using them to roast fake insulation hype. She delivers a winter playbook of non-cotton bases, legit mids, real shells and the eternal reminder that leather is just cold skin pretending to be gear. She also ranks heated gear, some of them seven-volt toys, reminding the guys to Google materials with "motorcycle" in the mix like an adult.Jordan beams back to Daytona 1970 where handling ruled, Brits fixed their exhaust flop and everyone pretended sketchy brakes were fine. Harley bet on the XR750 and luck, privateers clogged the track and going five MPH faster meant nine extra miles of misery. Meanwhile Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki screamed around at 150-plus and proved engineering beats wishful thinking every time.Speaker Entry:Brian Wringer - 00:03:46Robin Dean - 00:03:59Joanne Donn - 00:27:37Jordan Liebman - 00:42:28Episode Page: https://tro.bike/podcast/2025e34/Music by Rabid Neon and Otis McDonald

Send us a textSupport the showSend emails to contact@nocomotopodcast.com, it doesn't have to be important. Check out our Patreon Or join the Discord Check out these other awesome Motorcycle Podcasts Creative Riding- Our Sister Show on the Moto1 Podcast Network! Moto Hop - Our friends Matt and Missy make T shirts, stickers, and this quality podcast. They are quick to point out our inaccuracies. Thanks guys. Cleveland Moto - Probably the most knowledgeable group of riders with a podcast. When it comes to motorcycles anyway. You're Motorcycling Wrong - Remember Lemmy from Revzilla? Of course you do, you could never forget. He and his friends make this awesome show. Motorcycles and Misfits - A podcast starring Bagel

Hoy hablamos de futuro, pero centrándonos en las MOTOS con mayúsculas, las de 500 cm3 para arriba. Esas que no usamos por practicidad, sino por pasión y disfrute. Analizamos cuándo llegarán las motos eléctricas, híbridas y autónomas a este segmento. 1. Las Eléctricas: ¿El Silencio del Fracaso? Sobre el papel, las motos eléctricas ofrecen una aceleración y un par motor instantáneo increíbles. Sin embargo, chocan con dos problemas. El primero es subjetivo, el "Factor Pasión": a muchos moteros nos gusta el sonido, la vibración y la sensación de reducir marchas. Pero el segundo problema es objetivo y real: el trilema imposible de Peso, Autonomía y Precio. Si quieres mucha autonomía, necesitas una batería enorme. Si la batería es enorme, el peso y el precio se disparan. El mejor ejemplo es la Harley-Davidson LiveWire. Siendo un misil en prestaciones, su lanzamiento fue un batacazo comercial: más de 30.000 euros, 250 kilos de peso y una autonomía real en carretera de apenas 150-170 km. Esto genera ansiedad por el enchufe, no diversión. Marcas especializadas como Zero o Energica, aunque punteras, sufren el mismo mal: pesos excesivos y autonomías que bajan en picado en autovía. Veredicto: Para motos grandes de disfrute, las eléctricas no llegarán hasta que haya una revolución en las baterías (quizás de estado sólido), algo para lo que faltan, como mínimo, 5 o 10 años. 2. Las Híbridas: ¿Solución o Problema? Si la eléctrica pura no funciona, ¿por qué no una híbrida? Kawasaki se ha atrevido con las Ninja 7 y Z 7 Hybrid: un motor de gasolina de 451 cm3 y un motor eléctrico. Analizándolo con mentalidad de motero de fin de semana, encontramos tres problemas. Primero, la complejidad y el peso: la Ninja 7 Hybrid pesa 227 kilos, 34 kg más que una Ninja 650. Segundo, el precio: toda esa tecnología es cara para una moto de 500 cm3. Y tercero, el más importante: ¿Para qué? El beneficio del modo 100% eléctrico solo tiene sentido en ciudad. Cuando sales a una carretera de curvas, ese modo es inútil, y solo estás cargando con el peso muerto del sistema híbrido. Veredicto: La Kawasaki es un alarde técnico, pero comercialmente lo tiene muy difícil en el segmento de ocio. Es cara, pesada y su ventaja principal no se usa en un escenario de disfrute. 3. Las Autónomas: La "Anti-Moto" Llegamos al concepto más absurdo: la moto autónoma. ¿Por qué montamos en moto? Por el control, el equilibrio, la sensación de tumbar. Montamos, precisamente, para conducir. Un vehículo de dos ruedas que te lleva solo es la "anti-moto". Técnicamente, aunque BMW mostró una GS que andaba sola, era una plataforma de pruebas para sistemas de seguridad, no un producto. Lo que sí veremos son más ayudas a la conducción (ARAS), como el control de crucero adaptativo o el aviso de ángulo muerto, pero no una moto que conduzca por ti. Veredicto: No va a pasar. Jamás en motos de carretera. Conclusión El futuro que nos venden, de silencio y baterías, está pensado para la movilidad urbana. Pero la pasión y el disfrute en carretera, en motos de más de 500 cm3, seguirán oliendo a gasolina y sonando a un buen escape durante mucho tiempo.

Save at FXRRacing.com with Pulpmx30 code and also thanks to Firepower Parts and Maxxis Tires. We talk to the newest Kawasaki factory rider about his decision to go 450, why the chose FXR gear, his emergence in 2025, what it's like in the big boy class, Tick, Troll and more.

Keefer sits down to talk about modifications that make a difference for the 2026 Kawasaki KX 450 and Yamaha YZ450F and then compares those two machines for future buyers. If both bikes have the same mods, which one is best for what type of rider? Find out on this show. As the show wraps up Keefer also cold call's Colton Haaker to discuss his Endurocross series as well as making the move to the KX450 late in the season.

W najnowszym Raporcie o Grach razem z Norbertem bierzemy na warsztat dwa całkiem chaotyczne tygodnie w branży: od kryzysu wokół pamięci RAM i współczucia od Team Cherry dla sceny indie, przez pytanie o zmierzch dominacji F2P, aż po ambicje Virtua Fightera, który celuje w miano GOTY. Przyglądamy się problemom Yacht Club Games, które balansuje na krawędzi opłacalności, wyciekom nowego, zaskakującego sprzętu Xboxa oraz rekordowi, który przebił Microsoft i ActiVision. Sprawdzamy też, dlaczego Helldivers 2 wreszcie przestał niszczyć dyski, co oznacza antycheatowy „młot” w nowym Battlefieldzie i czemu FF7 Remake na Switcha 2 to jedyna gra, jaką zmieścicie na konsoli. Do tego kontrowersje z „Chef Kawasaki”, ostrzeżenia przed reżyserem Ghost in the Shell i… Banjo, który ożywa w Dreams. Krótko: grubo, dziwnie i bardzo branżowo.(00:00:00) - START(00:00:08) - Rozgrzewka

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Michael Uhlarik from Motorcycle Global joins Neil Graham to talk about—wait for it—motorcycle seats and mirrors from a designer's perspective. And then Neil makes the case for an ADV motorcycle inspired by Kawasaki's 400 cc four-cylinder ZX-4R screamer—a high-spec, small displacement bike with all the tech of a big bike but without the bulk of something like a 1290 Adventure. Like a 600 cc V-twin not built to a pauper's budget. Wait until you hear Michael's shockingly (predictable) response, you'll be (un) surprised. 

Send us a textAll moto podcasts have to do an Eicma update. Its the law.The only images from eicma you needSupport the showSend emails to contact@nocomotopodcast.com, it doesn't have to be important. Check out our Patreon Or join the Discord Check out these other awesome Motorcycle Podcasts Creative Riding- Our Sister Show on the Moto1 Podcast Network! Moto Hop - Our friends Matt and Missy make T shirts, stickers, and this quality podcast. They are quick to point out our inaccuracies. Thanks guys. Cleveland Moto - Probably the most knowledgeable group of riders with a podcast. When it comes to motorcycles anyway. You're Motorcycling Wrong - Remember Lemmy from Revzilla? Of course you do, you could never forget. He and his friends make this awesome show. Motorcycles and Misfits - A podcast starring Bagel

4:0 im Heimspiel gegen Mainz - Balsam für die SC Seele! Paddy und Alex sprechen über folgende Themen: - Aktuelle SC-Themen - Das Spiel gegen Mainz 05 - Spieler des Spiels - die anderen SC-Teams: Frauen, Zweite, U19 - die Leihspieler - Ausblick auf das Spiel gegen Darmstadt So könnt ihr uns unterstützen: Patreon: https://patreon.com/SpodcastFreiburg Paypal: https://paypal.me/SpodcastFreiburg Das SC Freiburg Tippspiel 25/26: https://www.kicktipp.de/spodcast Feedback? Sehr gerne! Kontaktiere uns jederzeit via Social Media oder Mail (spodcastfreiburg@gmail.com) Mehr Infos auf https://www.spodcast-freiburg.de Euer Spodcast-Team diese Folge: Paddy (@bergzwuckel / @bergzwuckel.bsky.social), Alex (@AKoneczny / @akoneczny.bsky.social)

Essa semana matamos aula pra caçar demônios em Demonschool e abrigamos desconhecidos em No, I'm Not a Human. Nas noticias, mais tretas de Subnautica 2, rumores em torno do The Game Awards, os jogos cancelados do Yoko Taro e uma polêmica envolvendo Chef Kawasaki! Aproveite o BLACK NOVEMBER da INSIDER Nosso cupom: JOGABILIDADE Grupo do Whatsapp da INSIDER 00:13:22: Atualizações das tretas de Subnautica 2 00:27:17: Megabonk não é mais um concorrente do Game Awards 00:40:58: Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet não terá trailer no Game Awards 00:47:13: Novas informações sobre Resident Evil Requiem 00:54:51: Yoko Taro revela que seus últimos projetos foram cancelados 01:03:33: Nintendo bane Chef Kawasaki de calcinha do Kirby Air Riders 01:13:49: Demonschool 01:44:20: Perguntas dos ouvintes 02:08:20: Finalmentes: No, I'm not a Human 02:18:41: Finalmentes: Últimos episódios de Dispatch Contribua | Twitter | YouTube | Twitch | Contato

Jason Weigandt chats with Jorge about his return to KTM. "The bike has made a step (since 2024). The first time I jumped back on the bike, I said, 'This is not the same bike I last rode in the U.S.'" Much has been said about Jorge Prado's 2025 season in the U.S. with Monster Energy Kawasaki, but suffice it to say it didn't go well. It was so tough that Jorge worked to get out of what was supposed to be a three-year deal and found a landing spot back with his old brand, Red Bull KTM. Jorge is no longer talking about his Kawasaki days, but he is excited to be back on familiar equipment. He actually feels like the bike is even better than it was when he last raced it early in Monster Energy Supercross in 2024. Jason Weigandt chats with Jorge in this podcast about what's to come in 2026.  The Racer X Exhaust podcast is presented by Yoshimura and Insta360.

Send us a textSupport the showSend emails to contact@nocomotopodcast.com, it doesn't have to be important. Check out our Patreon Or join the Discord Check out these other awesome Motorcycle Podcasts Creative Riding- Our Sister Show on the Moto1 Podcast Network! Moto Hop - Our friends Matt and Missy make T shirts, stickers, and this quality podcast. They are quick to point out our inaccuracies. Thanks guys. Cleveland Moto - Probably the most knowledgeable group of riders with a podcast. When it comes to motorcycles anyway. You're Motorcycling Wrong - Remember Lemmy from Revzilla? Of course you do, you could never forget. He and his friends make this awesome show. Motorcycles and Misfits - A podcast starring Bagel

In today's Daily Fix:A financial report from Ubisoft may have revealed the release date for the long-rumored Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake. An entry for an 'unannounced title' dropped March 31st, 2026 is fueling speculation that the remake will be announced soon. The title is supposedly being made by the Ubisoft Shanghai team, the same studio behind Skull & Bones, which itself started as a spinoff of the original AC: Black Flag. In other news, some old friends will be popping up in Resident Evil: Requiem, but don't get too excited over the possibility of playing as multiple protagonists. Requiem's producer confirmed that past characters will show up, but he said to not "over-hype it." And finally, Nintendo is taking down fan-made character art in Kirby Air Riders, specifically those of a bikini-clad Chef Kawasaki. Yes, that's a sentence you just read.

Few families embody American motorcycle racing the way the Haydens do, and in this episode Roger Hayden opens up about what it was really like growing up in one of the sport's most iconic households.Roger talks about life in Owensboro, Kentucky, where racing wasn't just a hobby, it was a lifestyle. He shares memories of riding every day, the nonstop competitive energy between the Hayden brothers, and the work ethic their parents instilled in them from the very beginning.He reflects on Nicky's exceptional talent and drive, how each brother pushed the others, and what it meant to sweep the podium together at the legendary Springfield TT. Roger also dives into his own career, the highs, the contracts, racing for factory Kawasaki and Suzuki, and even turning down a MotoGP ride to chase an AMA SuperSport Championship like his brothers achieved.The conversation takes a heartfelt turn as Roger talks about losing his brother Nicky, how that shaped his life, and how he found a new chapter as an announcer for MotoAmerica. He shares his perspective on the growth of the series, the rising talent in the U.S., and where he believes American racing is headed next. Follow ⁠@pipedreams_pod⁠ on social media!____________________________________________________________________________________Please support our partners: Law Tigers Motorcycle Attorney's: If you ever find yourself in an incident that may or may not require legal representation please call 1-800-Law-Tigers.- No recovery, no fee for personal injury claims, and no expenses unless there is a recovery.- Fees calculated as a percentage of the gross recovery.- FREE representation for motorcycle property damage claims- FREE advice on all motorcycle matters For more info visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lawtigers.com/⁠⁠____________________________________________________________________________________Yuasa Battery: Setting the standard for powersports batteries since 1979. Each and every day, it starts with us.- Find Your Battery: https://www.yuasabatteries.com/#batterysearch- Find Your Local Yuasa Dealer: https://www.yuasabatteries.com/how-to-buy/find-a-dealer/- Purchase Online: https://www.yuasabatteries.com/how-to-buy/where-to-buy/For more info visit https://www.yuasabatteries.com____________________________________________________________________________________Gulf Point Advisors: A Forward Thinking Wealth Advisory FirmHave financial questions or want to learn more about the benefits of professional money management? Call our good friend Tris at 603-731-3230, email tris@gulfpointadvisors.com or visit gulfpointadvisors.com

In this episode of GarageCast, Tony and Sam unpack insights from the fall 20 Clubs, tackling rising dealership costs, shrinking margins, and innovative ways to stay profitable. From early holiday buzz to major OEM shakeups—Harley's new leadership, Indian's transition, Kawasaki's surge, and CFMoto's momentum—they break down what's driving the powersports market right now. Additionally, discover how training, inventory discipline, and community events can position your dealership for a successful season ahead.

Send us a textThings got all f'd up. Maybe show notes will be added laterSupport the showSend emails to contact@nocomotopodcast.com, it doesn't have to be important. Check out our Patreon Or join the Discord Check out these other awesome Motorcycle Podcasts Creative Riding- Our Sister Show on the Moto1 Podcast Network! Moto Hop - Our friends Matt and Missy make T shirts, stickers, and this quality podcast. They are quick to point out our inaccuracies. Thanks guys. Cleveland Moto - Probably the most knowledgeable group of riders with a podcast. When it comes to motorcycles anyway. You're Motorcycling Wrong - Remember Lemmy from Revzilla? Of course you do, you could never forget. He and his friends make this awesome show. Motorcycles and Misfits - A podcast starring Bagel

This episode is brought to you by Insta360 and the superb new X5 camera.  In the first segment this episode Don Williams brings us the 2026 Kawasaki KLX230 Sherpa S.  This is a motorcycle with a couple of 1960s historical touchstones. On one hand, it recalls the days of the boondocker motorcycles, which were inexpensive, high-reliability, low-performance, easy-to-ride and lightweight, off-road motorcycles. Sportsmen used them to access the outdoors when traveling by foot was impractical. The new Kawasaki KLX230 Sherpa S is a modern take on the boondocker motorcycle. It is beginner-friendly with a low seat height, yet fully capable off-road, inexpensive, and good-looking. *  *  *  *  * In this episode's Snippet, Arthur Coldwells chats with Daniel Riff from Insta360 about the new X5 camera. Daniel is one of the product experts at Insta360, and as well as a professional videographer, he's also a passionate motorcycle rider who's been testing 360 cameras on two wheels for years. Daniel and I have both extensively tested the X5, and so he breaks down for us why the X5 is such a game-changer for capturing your rides. For our listeners who want to level up their ride content, Insta360 has a special offer: the first 30 orders get a free Mic Air worth $50. That's perfect for adding voiceovers to your ride footage. Head to Insta360 to grab yours before they're gone! *  *  *  *  * In the second segment this episode, Arthur Coldwells chats with his friend Armen Manougian. Although Armen owns a car service workshop, his first love is clearly motorcycles. His excellent mechanical background and incredible eye for detail helped him restore the most beautiful Yamaha RD400 I've ever seen. He has some incredible other motorcycles too, some classics but others that he rides regularly on track. These include a couple of real Yoshimura Suzuki Gixxer racebikes, and a Ducati Superleggera. Don't be fooled by Armen's very modest style of chatting; he's as skilled a rider as he is a mechanic, and his uncompromising, take-no-prisoners attitude has served him well when riding a motorcycle, just as much as when he's working on one.     *  *  *  *  * Here's a quick reminder to leave us your comments on our social media—we're on all the usual platforms at Ultimate Motorcycling. We love hearing your feedback… so good or bad, please let us know what you think. If there's something you'd like us to cover, we'd love to hear those ideas too!   @ultimatemotorcycling  @UltimateMotoMag  @UltimateMotorcycling  producer@ultimatemotorcycling.com

The SMX Insiders are here with a November update on the 2026 SMX Silly Season. Hosts Jason Weigandt and Jason Thomas break down Sexton to Kawasaki, Tomac to KTM, Anderson to Suzuki and how everyone is still chasing the Lawrence Brothers and Honda.

The shows kicks off with the full enchilada on the Alpinestars Tech Air from Brent Jaswinski, telling us all about this new groundbreaking safety device. The big news surrounding Chase Sexton's move to Kawasaki has dropped and we have him in the line to spill all the beans about the decision and his goals on green for 2026. Dustin Pipes is on the line to talk about his revamped line up for 2026 and how Jason Anderson is fitting in with the crew so far. We've got the NEWF in studio as well as Dave Ginolfi of 100%. Great show!!

It's the Leatt LVK: More Than Moto show where Start Your Systems' Kellen Brauer and Vital MX's Lewis Phillips debate current SX/MX/MXGP topics as well as general life itself. In Episode 80, we talk about Eli Tomac officially going to KTM, Chase Sexton officially going to Kawasaki, Jorge Prado back in orange, and a bit of WSX Preview. It's all brought to you by Leatt, Namura, Race Tech, and Partzilla.

Send us a textDo you trust Wikipedia?Marcus and Daniel talk about the history of Kawasaki.Marcus try's, but Daniel does it better. Support the show

Send us a textWendy and Ian give us pointers on how to ride over 100K miles in a few months and discuss their new book Pushing Miles. find it HERE Support the showSend emails to contact@nocomotopodcast.com, it doesn't have to be important. Check out our Patreon Or join the Discord Check out these other awesome Motorcycle Podcasts Creative Riding- Our Sister Show on the Moto1 Podcast Network! Moto Hop - Our friends Matt and Missy make T shirts, stickers, and this quality podcast. They are quick to point out our inaccuracies. Thanks guys. Cleveland Moto - Probably the most knowledgeable group of riders with a podcast. When it comes to motorcycles anyway. You're Motorcycling Wrong - Remember Lemmy from Revzilla? Of course you do, you could never forget. He and his friends make this awesome show. Motorcycles and Misfits - A podcast starring Bagel

Patrick and Mark swap machines with Chef Kawasaki and hit the gas to cover all of the announcements from the second Kirby Air Riders Direct. Plus, a surprise update for Pikmin 4, new Switch 2 third-party announcements, and more.The guys also talk about:Patrick beating Hades II (possibly?).The surprise pleasures of UFO 50 as a social experience.Mark's continuing adventures in Dragon Quest III HD-2D.Assassin's Creed Shadows and Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition announced for Switch 2, and Eldin Ring delayed.Pokemon Legends: Z-A first week sales.Mario joins the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.Super Mario Odyssey's 8th anniversary.SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/nintendocartridgesocietyFRIEND US ON SWITCH / SWITCH 2Patrick: SW-1401-2882-4137Mark: SW-8112-0583-0050

Presented by Maxxis and Outhouse Coffee Co. While October 1 was the date we expected all of the news about 2026 to be released, much of the formal "goodbye," and "thanks for the memories" press releases have trickled in over the past couple of weeks. Does that mean that the remaining "news" will drop on Saturday, November 1? Or will they be released on Monday the third? No matter...while we await the official news about Sexton and Kawasaki, Tomac and Prado at KTM, Deegan in Fox, Barcia and Ferrandis with Ducati, and more...we had a good time speculating about all those pairings, and more!

Kawasaki announced a new model, the KLE500, which slots perfectly into the same spot as the CFMoto Ibex 450. Both bikes fit a previously empty niche in the small adventure bike market, have solid motors, and are great bikes for the price (under $7k). So which one would you buy? We compare some of the stats and figures, coupled with Liza's assessment from her recent ride. One of the things that the Ibex does well is the chassis, making it a very stable ride for a 386lb bike. This leads Emma to talk a bit about the chassis, how the geometry works, and which ones have a reputation for being great. Stunt Misfit Bryce brings us an interview with Rosson from Austin Moto Adventures that he got while attending the TourTexas Rally last weekend. Lastly, we read listener emails and share some updates from previous shows. With Liza, Miss Emma, Neal, Naked Jim and Bagel. www.motorcyclesandmisfits.com motorcyclesandmisfits@gmail.com https://www.breakingawayadventures.com/shop/p/misfit-rally-v4 www.patreon.com/motorcyclesandmisfits www.zazzle.com/store/recyclegarage www.youtube.com/channel/UC3wKZSP0J9FBGB79169ciew womenridersworldrelay.com/ adifferentagenda.com/products/the-lost-tribe-25 motorcyclesandmisfits.com/shop Join our Discord at discord.gg/hpRZcucHCT

In this episode of The Hydrogen Podcast, we unpack three pivotal stories shaping hydrogen's next chapter—from major logistics partnerships and cost-slashing tech breakthroughs to a data-driven look at plant safety and reliability.

A look back into the archives with this 2011 podcast done with Oakley's Anthony Paggio taking about that role, working fro factory Kawasaki, privateer life and more, New introduction by Matthes BTW!

Presented by Maxxis and Outhouse Coffee Co. Some interesting stuff to talk about on this week's Kickstart Podcast! Last week, formal "goodbyes" were issued by several teams, thanking racers for their time and wishing them success in the future. While it's well known where all of the big players are headed, we discuss the open Kawasaki 450 seat, as well as Jorge Prado's challenging public image in 2026. Chase saw him in action on his orange machine last week, and we talked about that, as well as a telling conversation we had with Cameron McAdoo recently.

This week on Chasin' the Racin', Joe Akroyd and Josh Corner are joined in the studio with FS3 Superbike racer, Max Cook, and later joined by his boss, Darren Fry. The lads chat through how Max progressed through his early career, coming to land a superbike seat from Stock 600 and reflect on his time in Superbike so far. Darren then joins to tell us more about the dynamics within the team and how he feels the lads are getting on. He also fills us in on the team's switch from Kawasaki to Bimota for 2026: how it came about, details on the bike and his feelings towards the switch. Oh, and of course some age jokes directed towards Christian sprinkled in throughout for good measure. Enjoy - CTR x   Powered by OMG Racing         Supported by JCT Truck and Trailer Rental and Lucky Day Competitions       Lucky Day are one of the biggest competition companies in the UK and have an amazing range of prizes up for grab every week! Check them out: https://www.luckydaycompetitions.com/       Episode Sponsor: DOC Solar and Electrical. They are a Wigan based company operating in a 10 mile radius, specialising in solar and battery storage systems. Check out their website: https://doc-solar-electrical.co.uk   If you're interested in sponsoring an episode of the podcast, please don't hesitate to get in touch via email to chasintheracin@outlook.com           ------------           We have a full range of merchandise as well as Alan Carter's and Ian Simpson's Autobiography's over on our website: https://chasintheracin.myshopify.com           CTR Patreon Page: https://patreon.com/MotorbikePod?utm_...             -------------             SOCIALS:           Instagram: @chasintheracinpod           Facebook: Chasin' The Racin' Podcast           X: @motorbikepod

Very excited to bring back Chris Okada of Okada & Co., this time in person, since he last joined us back during the depths of COVID back in the summer of 2020.   Chris is the founder & owner of Okada & Co, a commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in the ownership, acquisition, & leasing of office, building, land, & storage facilities across NYC & New Jersey.  Chris & his firm are tasked with overseeing a portfolio of more than 110 Manhattan properties spanning 6.5 million square feet, a market share that he has grown significantly since 2021.  He's also been involved in residential new development at 432 West 52nd Street, along with acquisitions of commercial building 41-15 West 34th Street, retail properties like 894 Avenue of Americas on West 32nd Street, 148 West 24th Street (where the Barcade is located), and the retail at 135 West 52nd Street (across 6.5 Avenue)    Chris's story is a unique one, as he hails from a real estate family whose parents moved from Japan in the 60s. His father carved out a niche in the commercial real estate world, working with companies like Toyota Motors, Mitsubishi, Kawasaki, Sony, and many restaurant and hospitality companies to establish their first North American headquarters back in 1967.   Chris has been featured numerous times in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Crain's Business, The New York Post, The Real Deal Magazine, & The NY Observer, to name a few.  He also has a powerful presence on his social media platforms, including Instagram & LinkedIn, which I will plug in the show notes.  His insightful posts are educational, thought-provoking, and likely the most interesting among the many commercial thought leaders in his business.  Please give Chris Okada a follow on:  Instagram Linkedin Okada & Co Website  

It's The Troy Lee Designs Race Tech Blair Matthes Project where industry insiders Daniel Blair and Steve Matthes dig in on a multitude of topics. As the offseason moves begin, some interesting developments are still happening, particularly with the second factory Kawasaki seat. Let's dive in!

Send us a textA city this generous doesn't just welcome you—it hands you a map and dares you to follow your curiosity. We land in San Diego on a points ticket, grab a budget Turo with unlimited miles, and set off to turn the weekend into a living treasure hunt built around a geocaching block party called “Signal's Island.” From push-scootering through Balboa Park's Spanish Revival plazas and the new Comic-Con Museum to logging Adventure Labs woven into art, gardens, and a towering zoo statue, the day unfolds with pace and purpose.The coast ups the stakes. In La Jolla, a sunrise sea-kayak tour becomes a geology lesson as we bounce through surf, trace a fault line between limestone and harder rock, and make the call to skip churning cave mouths—then pivot to Sunny Jim Sea Cave via a hidden staircase inside a rock shop. That same spirit of play leads to a rare webcam cache on a tide-lashed pier and to a plate of ocean-fresh fish tacos at Duke's, where the view is pure Pacific. Community fuels the journey: we swap stories at a beach bonfire welcome, run into TV producer Dave Barsky, and hear that Mike Rowe listened to our Dirty Jobs episode and loved it.San Diego's Navy roots open a pop-culture loop. We eat barbecue at the Kansas City Barbecue—the Top Gun bar where Goose pounded “Great Balls of Fire”—and later chase a virtual cache at the restored Top Gun House in Oceanside, complete with a Kawasaki out front for that Maverick shot. The block party itself delivers real activities: gadget caches tied to Adventure Labs, a coconut cream pie contest, path tag left-right-center, and costume flair worthy of Gilligan's Island. Add an omakase-level meal at Sushi Ota and a CITO cleanup on Imperial Beach, and the weekend turns into a model for city adventures that blend exploration, service, and story.Ready to build your own San Diego treasure map—packed with geocaches, sea caves, pop-culture stops, and unforgettable bites? Subscribe, share this episode with your travel crew, and leave a quick review to help more curious listeners find the show.Support the showFacebookInstagramXYoutube

Send us a textLewis Phillips and Michael Lindsay discuss the current affairs in the sport on the 'DeCal Works Post-Weekend Show' on Vital MX presented by Fox Racing, Yoshimura R&D, Yamaha Motor USA and Motorex.

Jason Anderson to Suzuki!? Jorge Prado NOT Going to Red Bull KTM!? Supercross Silly Season is Getting WILD! Riders are switching teams, contracts are changing, and the entire 2026 season is starting to take shape. We figured it was the perfect time to break down some of the craziest team swaps and rumors heading into the new season. Your favorite rider might be on a new team next year — where is Eli Tomac headed? Is Chase Sexton really moving to Kawasaki? What's next for Justin Barcia? Not to mention the MXGP stars like Tim Gajser and Jeffrey Herlings, who will be lining up on new brands in 2026 as well. Let's dive into everything happening in this year's Silly Season — it's one for the books.

Save at FXRRacing.com with Pulpmx30 code and also thanks to Firepower Parts and Maxxis Tires. We talk to the MXGP champion about the MXDN, his season, the Kawasaki and more.

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Kris and Aden Keefer walk you through the 2026 KX250 and what this bike is all about. No changes in 2026 means updated settings, mods and even some things to look out for when it comes to the green machine. Is this viable option if you're in the market for a new 250 four stroke? Listen here and find out!

Send us a textjoin the patreon for extra audio content from every episode Pic linksBest bike in the world this weekworst bike: The Scoot Coupevirago 1virago 2virago 3virago 4Support the showSend emails to contact@nocomotopodcast.com, it doesn't have to be important. Check out our Patreon Or join the Discord Check out these other awesome Motorcycle Podcasts Creative Riding- Our Sister Show on the Moto1 Podcast Network! Moto Hop - Our friends Matt and Missy make T shirts, stickers, and this quality podcast. They are quick to point out our inaccuracies. Thanks guys. Cleveland Moto - Probably the most knowledgeable group of riders with a podcast. When it comes to motorcycles anyway. You're Motorcycling Wrong - Remember Lemmy from Revzilla? Of course you do, you could never forget. He and his friends make this awesome show. Motorcycles and Misfits - A podcast starring Bagel