Bitter Sweet Day New N1K

[furious_blue_imp]

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.

I remember reading, way back when, that one of the reasons why Honda chose red was that it was determined that red was a color that still looked good even after a bike has been splattered with mud in the off-road arena..

(it was written in Cycle magazine somewhere in the early 70's (?))

sounds plausible !