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^^The Lotus 108 is assymetrical too, but is also one of the most beautiful bikes ever created. If the date of the magazine is contemporary to the picture(November 1992) then the Yamaguchi post dates the Lotus by a few months and would have been developed at roughly the same time. In terms of technical advancement, beauty and pornworthyness they are at each end of the scale. The Lotus represents a Concorde moment for cycling(before the UCI discredited themselves by banning such machines) and the Yamaguchi represents, what looks like, a pile of scaffolding pipes thrown together on a Sunday afternoon, by a builder addressing the issue of offset loadings in an empirical fashion, without a clue to the actual science behind it.
Paricular features to note are the integrated handlebars, monobladed forks to front and back and the rear sprocket outboard of the chainstay.
Sorry if I have missed something.
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