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:
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!
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.
Obviously some of the more extreme ones are less than practical, but this is the style I’ll be shooting for.
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.
You can see the kick-ass looking oil cooler and super custom kickstand prop.
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”
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.
Car had full 
