Superficial Friday: Japan’s Bosozoku Motorcycle Style
Friday, November 6, 2009 8:50 am
November6
Some would say that there is no accounting for taste.
I am strangely drawn to the look at photos and videos of Japan’s Bosozoku Motorcycle Gang culture. The videos I have watched show a constant frenzy of revving noise, sparkling paint, crazy seats, ridiculous farings. All of it a strange and beautiful mishmash that I cannot tear my eyes away from.
A great collection of images can be found on this English-speaking site: Bosozoku Bikes
Bosozoku Bike
Do you think this subculture will ever pop up in the US? Are there already Bosozoku in your town?
Let’s hear what you have to say about the visual styling of these bikes! Yay or Yeaaaaa, ummmm.. No.?
15 Responses to this entry
9:09 am
Ha. I’ve never seen these guys before. Any sub-culture coming out of japan is usually a little wacky for American taste. Hey, I like it. Its fun, new (to me at least) and damn check out these horns!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8UsjsYGiZ4
9:28 am
While we don’t have the crazy bike styling, or long trench coats and germ masks LOL, I think we have a fair amount of throttle jockeys over here already. We don’t need this craze causing more people to look at motorcycles in a dim light. =|
9:40 am
I know, Arc! The whole thing is just mesmerizing! I wish they had a vid of that bike running. Those horns must play a song. $5 says its the Godfather theme
9:41 am
@Duc
SOMEONE sounds like a wet blanket around here. Any guesses who?
9:54 am
LOL
I was bummed when the clip didn’t show the horns in action. That yellow piping on the edge routes the exhaust up a few stories at least! LOL
I just watched a ton of clips and only ONE showed a bike actually rolling. So it’s kind cool that they do more than rev in place. And wear germ masks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_3nP7pdAPk&feature=related
10:41 am
I am the only person that sees the similiarities in appearance between those fairings and the lost souls at the bottom of the ocean in the Little Mermaid? Yeah, probably …
10:56 am
@Duc-
I saw a few clips of them riding through town. You have to dig around the web but there is stuff out there!
10:56 am
@OG
Chloe never got into that movie – I don’t know what they look like
11:17 am
Oh, we watched that movie over and over with Hailey….I am not surprised the images stuck. You get a glimpse here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFVG4VfPmg&feature=related @ about 1:05
12:32 pm
It reminds me of the biker gangs from anime movies like Akira
1:21 pm
All of the treetops on the road at night must dance in the glow of those ridiculous headlights
1:26 pm
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4:41 pm
I think Kenny needs to chop the RS and start his conversion stat! LOL
5:06 am
Sort of draws on the Goose’s bike in Mad Max (The Road Warrior) and the Gravedigger gang’s bikes in Stone.
Stone is a classic Australian biker movie for those who’ve never heard of it. Kind of a biker version of Mad Max/Road Warrior.
2:42 am
The sport bike world around here is over due for custom tricked out rides.