Two wheel transport

Here is Japan having some form of bike is really convient. You can pass cars on the left and get up to lights 1st, and bypass most traffic. If I had a bike or some sort I could likley get to work in under 30mins, easy. So, I have been looking into getting a small scooter or similar bike. Anything under 50cc I don’t have to get a licence for so I want to stay there, its slow, but cheap. I started looking around and found some cool Honda Apes and such and even thought about a Zoomer (Ruckus). I used Masa’s boss’ Ape awhile back and it was loads of fun. But I ran across this cool deal from EasyRiders:

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They are available in 50, 110 and 125cc. I can’t wait to rull up to school in my suit sitting on this little thing. Gonna be classic! 

Todays HD

Watch HD fullscreen…just make sure your sitting down…Ratatat x Björk

Awesome wallride at 1:26!!!

Rat Rod Bikes

I’ve been wanting to get a bike, mainly to run errands around town that a bit to far to walk but a tad too close to drive. But I can’t just roll on a normal thing…no way no how. So I may try and build and/or buy something cool. I’ve been looking around on ratrodbikes for some ideas. Here are a few of my favorites.

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Obviously some of the more extreme ones are less than practical, but this is the style I’ll be shooting for.

I want to roll through town like so:

Monkey

A few days ago I had to do some running around Kameoka to get the application for my foreigner registration card taken care of, along with opening up a bank account and all this other crap I need to get my own place. Masa’s boss let me borrow his Honda Monkey for the afternoon to run around, and it made my life a million times easier. Those of you who have been in Japan likely know (or have seen) that most small scooters and bikes can pass cars that are stopped at a light, so when you’re in traffic you just fly past everyone. Anyways, onto the bike. Its a custom deal, that is actually quite expensive. The frame is from a Honda Ape, but the motor and drive train are from a Honda Monkey. The motor is the normal 50cc base, but has been bored to 80cc, giving this little thing a good amount of go. The suspension, wheels and such are all larger than normal and from some other larger bike. I’ve never actually ridden a bike before so getting used to the 4speed took some time, but once I got it down it was loads of fun. I am thinking of picking something similar up now, before a car, since during the summer months running around town in this will be more economical and faster. Onto a few pics.

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You can see the kick-ass looking oil cooler and super custom kickstand prop.

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A better shot of the Yoshimura carb:

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And I had never been to the touge we run other than at night, so I went up and down once on the bike. This is a shot from the “start”

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Later that night we hung out at the CircleK and talked with a buddy of Masa’s that had a nice S13. beat to hell, but just on the rear quarters….from Meihan :) Car had full Origin stylish aero, D-max rear trunk wing and a older bottom ount TD06 tubo kit I never really had seen before.

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