New V-twin brochure added April 12, 2008: Click on girl in pink.
This site contains information on Marusho and Lilac motorcycles manufactured in Japan in the 1950s and 1960s.This site was opened April 13, 1997 and last updated April 12, 2008. If you wade through this Web site you will probably learn more than you want to about this little-known maker of unusual, classy, sophisticated and quirky motorcycles. At least 50,000 were built in Japan between 1950 and 1967, and the company had a good chance of matching Honda's success. It has been 41 years since the last bike rolled off the assembly line at Hamamatsu but loyal Marusho/Lilac fans in Japan, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, France, Germany, Norway, Malaysia, India, Croatia, Thailand and other countries keep these machines on the road.
This is not a real counter! The site gets about 1000 unique visitors a month. The site was created in July of 1997. I do not have records of usage before it was moved to its current location in July 2001. But, for the period of July 2001 to the present,
The only way I'll ever know WHO visited it and what part of the world you are from is if you send me e-mail.
Links to all my websites:
Gruetzi.com:
Photos of Switzerland, with an emphasis on transport.
360° Panoramas:
of Switzerland, with notes on the 'Panorama" Java applet and my technique.
Zweisimmen.com:
Photos of the MOB (Montreux Oberland Bernois) narrow gauge railway in Switzerland, plus information on G (garden) gauge model railroad projects of mine.
Schau.Biz:
Swiss shooting medals, beer coasters, etc. for sale.
BernBear.com:
Our log cabin in Greene County, Virginia, and examples of the use of the Bern Bear heraldic symbol on decorative objects.