Who was the oldest Japanese motorcycle manufacturer?

Meguro was the first manufacturer of motorcycles in Japan starting in 1909.

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Bikes is bikes Cars is cars Fun even on 1,2,3,4 or18 wheels is FUN!!! I ride a ( snigger) 50 cc scooter to get me to work I drive a car all day 5 days of the week ( then get onto the snigger) and relax by going for a spin At the weekends I get on my vanvan 125 and find the lanes tracks a trails or the TDM 850 with open pipes and black leathers and ride the roads.. So My answer to your question is " it's not what you drive, it's how you drive and why you drive it that way thats important to you" For holidays I might fix the scooter the bike or tinker with the MG or landy Hot summer days It could be a toss up between full leathers (bike) or tee shirt and shorts ( MG) and a trip to the beach Landy). If the phone rings and it's mum calling for help its a 250 mile mercy dash to cornwall on the TDM. So my bikes are both a luxury and an essential part of my life but so are the cars ...The main problem is if you have £20.00 which tank do you pour the petrol into as you have then committed yourself to that..

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Different riders have different sight on this subject Me I ride purely for pleasure and yes I ride in the summer and store in the winter. If that makes me a lightweight then I'm OK with that I ride a Harley and I love to ride for pleasure. If I had to ride for necessity just maybe I would not enjoy it quite so much I do take your point. In order to "keep up" so to speak you would need to upgrade to the latest machine about every 2 years and with depreciation on the "old" model would probably loose about 40% or more on each deal. Gets a little expensive. So for the rider who has the need to ride daily come rain or shine my personal choice of bike might not suit but there are some model out there that fit this criterior better and virtually each and every manufacturer has one. Then you get into the daily rider and pleasure rider all in one what chance does he or she have. A daily ride and a pleasure ride. Now that gets expensive too It's tough but we all do this biking for many different reasons and it will always remain a personal choice but either way it's all biking So for me all I ask is thet we ride safe and the motorist thinks about us not as his enemy Good luck to you all out there and do try to keep it safe

Wow thats actually a really good question, so i looked it up and i would say the oldest Japaneese bike manufacturer is Suzuki it said it was founded in 1909 and Honda was founded in 1948, i thought Honda was the dominant but i guess i was wrong, its no wonder Suzuki wins most of the races on their GSXR series.

first honda was made 1948

the first suzuki 1952

first yamaha in 1954

and the name kawasaki did not appear on a petrol tank until 1961

but soichiro honda bought a small batch of stationary engines in 1946 & employed a dozen workers to fit them to bicycle frames,

Marushu was making cycles for Japanes army in WW2, some postwar production- sort of Harley flathead copy and a sort of BMW copy and some references indicate that Kawasaki heavy industries bought them.

Honda has been producing bikes since 1959. Kawasaki since 1960 but was making heavy equipment before then. I can't remember when Suzuki and Yamaha started making bikes but I know it was after Honda.

I agree with Ruby, its Meguro

when I was over there in 1948 there were several mfgs but none of the ones we have today