 At a cost of around $6,000 new on release it was seen as an expensive bike for a 250cc, but given that places such as Japan, Italy and Australia had 250 licensing laws in place one can imagine the stir that something that could hassle 750s on a track caused.The parallel twin 2MA variant being the UK variant and the 1KT model being the domestic Japanese model that were also fitted with a more restrictive CDI to comply with Japanese laws which stipulated an upper limit of 45 hp for 250cc motorcycles.Variations between these two models being minimal, e.g.