Honda Motorcycle Parts
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The Honda Motor Co Ltd was founded in 1948 by self-taught automotive engineer Soichiro Honda. His interest in motorcycles stemmed from the time when, during the war, he was unable to use his car due to fuel rationing and attached a small engine to his bicycle, attracting lots of attention and curiosity along the way. He then established the Honda Technical Research Institute in Hamamatsu, Japan, with the sole aim of developing small 2 stroke motorcycle engines. Soichiro eventually raised enough capital to manufacture his company's first complete motorcycle, which was named the Honda Cub.
Honda are currently the largest motorcycle manufacturer in Japan, and have been since it commenced production in 1955. At the company's height in the early eighties the company churned out just shy of 3 million motorcycles annually, and although this had fallen by 2006 to just 550,000 it was still higher than it's three domestic competitors, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha.
Today Honda build engines for many domestic and industrial applications such as lawn mowers, boats, snow mobiles, generators etc - the list seems endless. They are also a leading Automotive manufacturer and produce products as diverse as robots, mountain bikes, aircraft and electronic components.
Soichiro Honda no longer leads the company, since 2009 Takanobu Ito has headed the company.
