FOR SALE 1970 TRIUMPH T120 EX FLAT TRACKER

For sale: My triumph.  Was race tuned and raced on a flat track.  But that was years ago.  email me for more info.  smithwrench@gmail.com

New Order Kobe Japan

July 15, 2013 New Order Chopper Show, Kobe Japan

US and Hawgaholic

I was in Tokyo proper for the first time in May and I got a phone call from Hajime who said I should see his shop.  The problem was it wasn't anywhere near any of hundreds of train stations in Tokyo.   Hajime said he would pick me up but that wasn't necessary because walking in Shibuya (a neighborhood in Tokyo) with my wife and, out of however many trillions of people in Tokyo who should we meet on the street but Hajime.  He put me in his truck and took me to see his clothing shop, cycle and nic nak collection. Around this time he said, "Hey do you want to go see my friends motorcycle shop, Hawgaholic?"  Of course I said yes.  Thanks for the lift Hajime!   

CRIB Motorcycle Yokohama

I have been fortunate to spend a decent amount of time with and see a great deal of work come out of Akira the one man show at Crib motorcycle in Yokohama.  Akira is on the daily rider, affordable side of the choppersphere.  He will race and/or chopperize, if you will,  almost any make or model.  Before he set out on his own he worked for Bratstyle.  I guess he got a lot of practice there because he can do anything imaginable with metal, but does it with such subtlety you look at his handiwork and think, "I could do that." But most of us can't.  That's why Akira is Akira and we are us.  None the less I feel at home around him just because of the piles of junk I see laying around his shop.  He can make anything you can dream up (see some of the things he had done on the many incarnations of Gen's Ironhead) and he works on anything that comes his way but usually he is working Evo sporties, Ironheads, Honda's, Yamaha's, and Cone Shovelheads, the same kind of machines my friends can afford to ride, which gives him a special place in my heart.   

See pics of Akira's work as well as Gen's at the Mooneyes 2012 Post: http://flyinshoes.blogspot.jp/search/label/Mooneyes%20Yokohama%202012