The long-lost motorcycle theme movie "Four Seas" is being screened, this drama is also brushing up the circle of friends of motorcycle enthusiasts, but word of mouth has appeared as a result of polarization, no matter how everyone in the motorcycle circle to see this drama, but outside the circle "Four Seas" for everyone to bring a feast of motorcycles mixed with love, the car ridden by the male and female protagonists in the play is also concerned by countless people, do you know the car they ride?
Wu Renyao's (Ah Yao) car - Yamaha SR400
Ah Yao's first motorcycle was given to him by his grandmother, so this motorcycle accompanies the protagonist throughout the movie! As a motorcycle teenager, in his lonely life, he regarded this car as a friend, and his sharp-eyed friends would definitely recognize that this classic retro model was the SR400 from Yamaha!
Originally a fork of the 1976 XT500 endurance motorcycle, the Yamaha launched the SR400 in 1978 based on the XT500, which was a great success at the time due to its simple design, light weight and durability. Can you believe that the Yamaha SR400 has basically maintained its original design for more than 40 years?
And it's also a very typical JDM model, what is JDM? JDM, or Japanese domestic market, is a vehicle and its spare parts produced for the Japanese domestic market, and sometimes refers to the place where car and motorcycle enthusiasts gather, and is also described as a modification style.
One might ask, why is the SR400 ridden by the protagonist a little different? This has a lot to do with the setting of the characters in the play, Ah Yao is a fan of playing stunts, and the SR400 is not suitable as a retro model, so his car has undergone some modifications, because he often likes to make warped movements, so he removed the rear fender and rearview mirror and replaced it with a shorter front fender.
The Yamaha SR400 is a very classic emotional model, until 2021 has no electric start function, and it is still equipped with a foot starter. To aid in starting, there is also a viewing mirror on the right side of the cylinder head indicating the best cylinder position for starting, with a decompression lever on the left handlebar.
Over the past few decades, the Yamaha SR400 has made only minor improvements to the suspension, brakes, and fuel delivery system. In fact, people who like this car still want to keep it pure. Yamaha seems to have heeded this advice, and in the mid-'80s, the SR400's rear wheel diameter was reduced from 19 inches to 18 inches, and the rear brakes were restored from disc to drum, and it changed the aluminum cast wheels to spoke style, and the fender material remained steel.
Yamaha has repeatedly wanted to replace glass headlights with plastic for driving safety, but ultimately always believed that glass lampshades were an important part of SR400's identity, so they have been retained.
In addition, the mechanical pointer speedometer and tachometer with double circular chrome rings, as well as the age-inspired rolling odometer, the subtotal odometer, and even the knob of the subtotal odometer zeroing, have never changed.
The 399cc displacement single-cylinder air-cooled two-valve engine has been retained for so many years. The maximum power of this engine is only 24 horses, and the maximum torque is only 28 Nm, which is not a brilliant output data, which is not important to people who like SR400. The engine still uses a dry sump, and the fuel tank is also part of the frame. A variety of traditional designs combine to make the Yamaha SR400 a generational classic.
No matter how classic yamaha SR400 is, this car cannot be bought in China, in fact, not only in Japan, but also in many people around the world are loyal fans of SR400, and the reason why the producer chose SR400, in addition to being related to the background of the characters, is also more or less related to feelings.
At present, the Yamaha SR400 on sale abroad is a 2017 model, the price is 5999 US dollars, as a model with a history of more than 40 years, the Yamaha SR400 is really an old car, and it is a retro model that does not have to be deliberately retro.