Bike meet in Japan

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I think some of you may enjoy this nice video. It's absolutely right up my street - these people have fantastic taste in bikes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5-f1zdYQgo&lc

The rest of the videos on that channel are fairly enlightening, and I reckon they may help to make sense of the bosozuku bike trend. It appears that very few of their bikes are extreme renditions of Nina Mona style... The Mad Max type of Australian customs appear to be fairly popular, and it's a look that's well-balanced and well-developed, with a good sense of judgment, i.e. I really dig some of these people's bikes! At a human/social level, I would remark that they seem to have a very similar profile in their bike scene to ours here in the UK. They have their cafe racers, trendies, fakers, etc. but also some genuinely interesting genuine eccentrics and afficionados. Very nice-looking channel! I doubt it's a representative sample, i.e. they're all rich kids (probably) but nevertheless it's very interesting, with the type of bikes they revere, and the sense of heritage and continuity they seem to have vis a vis the Japanese bike scene.

If you want to watch these videos, switch on subtitles and go to settings to auto-translate to English.

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some nice looking machinery on display, but its all Japanese
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

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