Bitter Sweet Day New N1K

[the Ferret]

I think the color thing came from the early years of motocross, where it was easy to identify bikes simply by the color of the plastics Honda went with red, Kawi green, KTM orange, both Suz and Yam chose yellow early on, but Yam changed to blue, Husky white, and it eventually bled over into street bikes, especially when sport bikes started wearing lots of plastic.