He also led the design team of Atsushi Ichijo and Takeshi Umemotothe for the Yamaha V-Max in 1984(VMAX since 2008). I wasn’t too fond of it then; excellent in a straight line, rubber chassis, squeamish in the corners. But he didn’t “design” it from the ground up, so no foul.
But they still sell it so that’s certainly a testament to his continued relationship with Yamaha. His 30th Anniversary tribute, the VMAX Carbon, was released was last week.
Specification-wise it hasn’t changed much since 1985, and I still don’t care for it.
Read this > The GK Report, #19, from 2010 and you will learn what influenced these shapes (the intake in particular) and you’ll even be able to understand how this (below) relates to the VMAX. Cool stuff.
Hats off to a real industrial design pioneer.