Jay's Book Club - Hodaka - Jay Leno's Garage

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell another episode of Jay Leno's book club remember no self-help no weight loss just stuff that rolls explodes and makes noise we're here with Paul stanard this is a book called hidaka the complete story of America's favorite trail bike this book was so much fun for me because it brought back every motorcycle and I had seen when I was a kid for hidaka motorcycles you know if you grew up in the late 60s early 70s hidaka was the trail bike everybody had a buddy mine had a 90 then another buddy got a 175 whoa whoa that was huge because we thought that 90 was just the fastest thing because since they were trail bikes and you weren't driving on the street you know when you go fast in the woods 30 miles an hour's like a hundred miles an hour in the woods so a 175 was odd yes just crazy and now do you own the name hidaka how does that work what is your connection oh you would ensue seus yeah I am but you never worked for the company no I never did all of the people that actually had worked for the company are all friends of mine and back in I think it was 1986 I went to find parts for an old hidaka and I had trouble and somehow I had made connection with one of the original tobacco the Pacific Basin trading company was the worldwide distributor for hidaka they were in Oregon right they were out of Oregon they were just a group of guys that like these bikes whatever just motorcycle enthusiasts like you and me right right yeah and so what they started importing them was that what it was well they actually the short story is is that hidaka engines were going into yamaguchi motorcycles okay pabout code Pacific Pacific Basin trading company was trading wheat to the Far East and they were importing the yamaguchi motorcycles so for about two years three years pabout Co had a dealer network set up and they'd sold like 5,000 Yamaguchi's mr. Yamaguchi and Japan actually had bankrupt his company while bankrolling his daughter to run for the Japanese Senate she actually won but the company went out of business SOPA Beco lost one of their their best commodities the Yamaguchi motorcycle right Boudica lost their biggest customer and a guy from Oregon got on a plane went to Oregon or went to Japan and put all the parts and pieces together because hidaka did not want to make a motorcycle but he went over there and and just got all the parts and pieces together and said here it is can you do this and that's how the whole doctor got started yeah that's the kind of way that's the kind of way we rode and we were kids no helmet no padding just a good cotton t-shirt and boom we fall off your head on a rock and that's pretty much the end of the story but look at some of the so there's John Wayne on a ho dacha his Peter Graves of Mission Impossible and my friend Mike Connors Mannix my mom would watch Mannix every week my mom was so impressed that I knew Mannix yeah cool yeah you know it's just a lot of fun it's it's certainly an easy read I remember that looks super rat how many her doctors do you own I'm curious myself right now probably bout 200 about 200 okay see honey okay see there you go yeah I didn't realize reading the book that I didn't realize it started up in Oregon by a bunch of motorcycle enthusiasts and they did it out of necessity pretty much for themselves they had you know they had chopped bikes they had custom built their own folding foot pegs and and all sorts of things that when the first age 90 came out in 1964 they just incorporated that into the model and what made them eventually go under because they were excellent bikes was the competition just too much or what happened well in 1972 they were actually 6th in in sales in the United States you had the big 4 Honda Suzuki Kawasaki Ryan Yamaha and then Harley Davidson right and then who doc was right behind him Wow so they were doing good but what inevitably had happened it was a lot of lot of things it was the deregulation of the dollar that Nixon had imposed the time versus the yen what made him a lot more expensive to come on in and and after the oil embargos and such the Arab oil embargos the motorcycle market in a sense really kind of went down now you have to Cobb you have the collector edition here they stay on there that's the collectors edition basically the same book just a little fancier a little fancier hardcover and it's only a 250 these are made and they're they're numbered yeah where can I get that how much is this book pretty this one right here is $50 a hardcover that you got in your hand right and then the collector's editions 140 okay and wearable where they're available through strictly hidaka calm okay strictly Kodaka calm and if you join the club may get one of those fancy shoes sure camp yeah absolutely you know tell me know me any thanks a lot my pleasure thanks for having me J thank you youwell another episode of Jay Leno's book club remember no self-help no weight loss just stuff that rolls explodes and makes noise we're here with Paul stanard this is a book called hidaka the complete story of America's favorite trail bike this book was so much fun for me because it brought back every motorcycle and I had seen when I was a kid for hidaka motorcycles you know if you grew up in the late 60s early 70s hidaka was the trail bike everybody had a buddy mine had a 90 then another buddy got a 175 whoa whoa that was huge because we thought that 90 was just the fastest thing because since they were trail bikes and you weren't driving on the street you know when you go fast in the woods 30 miles an hour's like a hundred miles an hour in the woods so a 175 was odd yes just crazy and now do you own the name hidaka how does that work what is your connection oh you would ensue seus yeah I am but you never worked for the company no I never did all of the people that actually had worked for the company are all friends of mine and back in I think it was 1986 I went to find parts for an old hidaka and I had trouble and somehow I had made connection with one of the original tobacco the Pacific Basin trading company was the worldwide distributor for hidaka they were in Oregon right they were out of Oregon they were just a group of guys that like these bikes whatever just motorcycle enthusiasts like you and me right right yeah and so what they started importing them was that what it was well they actually the short story is is that hidaka engines were going into yamaguchi motorcycles okay pabout code Pacific Pacific Basin trading company was trading wheat to the Far East and they were importing the yamaguchi motorcycles so for about two years three years pabout Co had a dealer network set up and they'd sold like 5,000 Yamaguchi's mr. Yamaguchi and Japan actually had bankrupt his company while bankrolling his daughter to run for the Japanese Senate she actually won but the company went out of business SOPA Beco lost one of their their best commodities the Yamaguchi motorcycle right Boudica lost their biggest customer and a guy from Oregon got on a plane went to Oregon or went to Japan and put all the parts and pieces together because hidaka did not want to make a motorcycle but he went over there and and just got all the parts and pieces together and said here it is can you do this and that's how the whole doctor got started yeah that's the kind of way that's the kind of way we rode and we were kids no helmet no padding just a good cotton t-shirt and boom we fall off your head on a rock and that's pretty much the end of the story but look at some of the so there's John Wayne on a ho dacha his Peter Graves of Mission Impossible and my friend Mike Connors Mannix my mom would watch Mannix every week my mom was so impressed that I knew Mannix yeah cool yeah you know it's just a lot of fun it's it's certainly an easy read I remember that looks super rat how many her doctors do you own I'm curious myself right now probably bout 200 about 200 okay see honey okay see there you go yeah I didn't realize reading the book that I didn't realize it started up in Oregon by a bunch of motorcycle enthusiasts and they did it out of necessity pretty much for themselves they had you know they had chopped bikes they had custom built their own folding foot pegs and and all sorts of things that when the first age 90 came out in 1964 they just incorporated that into the model and what made them eventually go under because they were excellent bikes was the competition just too much or what happened well in 1972 they were actually 6th in in sales in the United States you had the big 4 Honda Suzuki Kawasaki Ryan Yamaha and then Harley Davidson right and then who doc was right behind him Wow so they were doing good but what inevitably had happened it was a lot of lot of things it was the deregulation of the dollar that Nixon had imposed the time versus the yen what made him a lot more expensive to come on in and and after the oil embargos and such the Arab oil embargos the motorcycle market in a sense really kind of went down now you have to Cobb you have the collector edition here they stay on there that's the collectors edition basically the same book just a little fancier a little fancier hardcover and it's only a 250 these are made and they're they're numbered yeah where can I get that how much is this book pretty this one right here is $50 a hardcover that you got in your hand right and then the collector's editions 140 okay and wearable where they're available through strictly hidaka calm okay strictly Kodaka calm and if you join the club may get one of those fancy shoes sure camp yeah absolutely you know tell me know me any thanks a lot my pleasure thanks for having me J thank you you\n"