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The RADD MC Yamaha's GTS front suspension layout had been designed ten years earlier by James Parker, an American bike enthusiast and engineer whose firm RADD was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Parker developed his idea with a Honda XL600-based prototype that was tested by future 500cc world champion Wayne Rainey. This led to a striking Yamaha FZ750-powered prototype, the RADD MC2, built in 1987 in conjunction with Motorcyclist magazine and Los Angeles studio GK Design. Yamaha then bought rights to Parker's design, and contracted the American to help develop the GTS1000. | The RADD MC Yamaha's GTS front suspension layout had been designed ten years earlier by James Parker, an American bike enthusiast and engineer whose firm RADD was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Parker developed his idea with a [[Honda XL600]]-based prototype that was tested by future 500cc world champion Wayne Rainey. This led to a striking [[Yamaha FZ750]]-powered prototype, the RADD MC2, built in 1987 in conjunction with Motorcyclist magazine and Los Angeles studio GK Design. Yamaha then bought rights to Parker's design, and contracted the American to help develop the GTS1000. | ||
when its front suspension kept working in a way that a telescopic system could not approach. | when its front suspension kept working in a way that a telescopic system could not approach. | ||