Hayabusa Sewing machine

[Camel]

This is the first time I actually noticed this; on the underside of the Gen II cam cover. Might check a few more cam covers I've got laying around to see if they're the same....

Camel

[Belzybob]

Saves on gaskets - just overlock the joins.

[Batfink]

All my replies have vanished lol

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

But I do know that JANOME in Japanese has a direct translation as "snake eyes"

[Belzybob]

Jam One?

[TempOzzy]

Maybe this is the answer...

http://www.twfic.com.tw/products_e/fic_products.htm

[Camel]

Nice piece of detective work Tempozzy. A Taiwanese die casting supplier. But it doesn't explain why a Suzuki part ended up with a sewing machine brand name. Maybe there were no engrish speakers that day in the plant?

[TempOzzy]

I was a bit surprised to see this, and I'm now very curious about how much of our bikes are made 'in-house'. I know a lot of manufacturers outsource minor components these days, but I had thought that Suzuki would have been big enough to do all of their own casting. I certainly would have expected them to get their own name cast into parts made for them. Maybe the latest overlockers come with DOHC and they've done a parts sharing deal?

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

I just googled 'my motorcycle sounds like a sewing machine' and found results for just about every manufacturer, even HD, which I would have associated with Tractors more than sewing machines.

[Belzybob]

The cam cover is Magnesium, perhaps they outsource exotic stuff?

[Shordy]

Direct translation for Janome from Japanese into English is actually "Bull's Eye" as far as I can see.
Also not surprising when you discover that Suzuki also manufacture electronic eyelet buttonhole machines, so why not Janome making motorbike parts.
http://www.chholderby.com/industrial-sew...e-machine/

[Aussie Steve]

We've all been sewn up!

[Camel]

Stitched up more like it. Overclocking, overlocking, I just can't make sense of it anymore.

[Batfink]

Does this mean we will see a Tathra Buttonhole Ride???

[gringo]

I was a bit surprised to see this, and I'm now very curious about how much of our bikes are made 'in-house'.

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

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

[Aussie Steve]

Just as well we have ours then....

[simmo]

I was a bit surprised to see this, and I'm now very curious about how much of our bikes are made 'in-house'.

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

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

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