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Searching for an honest relationship with motorcycling

By The Zor, 7 October, 2009, No Comment

There is more to motorcycling than showing off your latest bling leather suit, your new 200hp racing motorcycle, or polishing your chrome. There is more to riding a motorcycle in a MC then just the need for a pack to feel stronger. People do it for the wrong reason. God bless there is a Darwinian theme to motorcycling through technological development of more powerful engines making easier for mother nature to chose between the quick and the dead. Luckily there are people like Shinya Kimura and MCs like the Basara from Japan, who are able to continue and evolve the pure passion of such people like Burt Munro and the WWII veteran chopper gangs. “We’ve all seen it: the guy who talks the talk, who owns that sweet cut down rigid, running all the right mods, has all the right cues…but it’s nothing more than an aesthetic “theme” for him. Sure he’s running a jockey shift on that sucker, yeah it’s got that super hot stroker in it, but he only rides it in a straight line, well under the speed limits, down to the bar, or to shows, or to the “clubhouse” to hang out with his fellow “hardcore chopper buddies.” There is no difference. The one is as guilty as the other. ” My honest admiration goes to Shinya Kimura and the MC Basara and my last thanks goes to Miller Genuine Draft for this not so inspirng thoughts.

Shinya Kimura

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