One man with a vision for the future, first started his quest in 1989, being disillusioned with the then, current crop of 'sports bikes' he set out to design a new breed of sports bike, one which was light in weight, had the power to thrill, and yet which was easy to control by the rider. Somewhere in the bikes early development the name FIREBLADE came alone, some say through a misinterpreted translation from French to English for the Japanese word for lightening, but what ever the reason the bike got the FireBlade name this was history in the making.