These are the bikes that came up when I googled "Custom Japanese Bike". Top to bottom, left to right... Just a Kawi custom I thought had a cool shape. Below left, a typical boring SR400 Yamaha with a very cool alum. tank. Common custom choices made by the rider at the time of purchase, seen a bunch of these, still like the tank, still hate SRs and their weak-ass thumper 1 cyl. engine. Next! 2 bikes from the Tokyo area custom shop "Heiwa" (means Peace). Everybody NOT living in Japan thinks that the Japanese have cool fucking custom bikes...bullshit. They have them in the Tokyo area, and scattered about Japan, but I NEVER saw one custom like these in Osaka. Aftermarket SR400s and stock bikes. Don't be fooled that "Japan" means anything. It is all regional. Next! A non-Indian bike with an Indian sticker on it...TOTALLY Japanese thing to do. How many SR's have I seen with a Norton "look" with a Norton tank badge...dunno...many. Red Triumph from Heiwa also. BTW, Triumphs are all called "Tora" here, which means "Tiger". Next is a Washingtonian gal on a 70's CB550F...massive custom. Are my eyes working? Is the front tyre bigger than the back? Green AJS custom...so rare in Japan that this is an actual AJS with an AJS tank badge. I put this on because I just like that pipe going over the tranny. I like the shape and the look too, but that simple "pipe" just got me. Next...black...and very cool...weirdness. Ryan should have this, only painted with both black and RED with more evil on it. Ryan would like Ty's bike "Darth Satan" maybe. Last, a "Mo-bike". Just like this look. So did NY. A Japanese man hand made this, and 3 of em were shown in modern art museums in NY.
These are the bikes that came up when I googled "Custom Japanese Bike". Top to bottom, left to right... Just a Kawi custom I thought had a cool shape. Below left, a typical boring SR400 Yamaha with a very cool alum. tank. Common custom choices made by the rider at the time of purchase, seen a bunch of these, still like the tank, still hate SRs and their weak-ass thumper 1 cyl. engine. Next! 2 bikes from the Tokyo area custom shop "Heiwa" (means Peace). Everybody NOT living in Japan thinks that the Japanese have cool fucking custom bikes...bullshit. They have them in the Tokyo area, and scattered about Japan, but I NEVER saw one custom like these in Osaka. Aftermarket SR400s and stock bikes. Don't be fooled that "Japan" means anything. It is all regional. Next! A non-Indian bike with an Indian sticker on it...TOTALLY Japanese thing to do. How many SR's have I seen with a Norton "look" with a Norton tank badge...dunno...many. Red Triumph from Heiwa also. BTW, Triumphs are all called "Tora" here, which means "Tiger". Next is a Washingtonian gal on a 70's CB550F...massive custom. Are my eyes working? Is the front tyre bigger than the back? Green AJS custom...so rare in Japan that this is an actual AJS with an AJS tank badge. I put this on because I just like that pipe going over the tranny. I like the shape and the look too, but that simple "pipe" just got me. Next...black...and very cool...weirdness. Ryan should have this, only painted with both black and RED with more evil on it. Ryan would like Ty's bike "Darth Satan" maybe. Last, a "Mo-bike". Just like this look. So did NY. A Japanese man hand made this, and 3 of em were shown in modern art museums in NY.
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