Comments on: Vroooooooooooooooomm!

Vroooooooooooooooomm!

dobbs — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:07:16 -0800

Shinya Kimura likes motorcycles. (A short film about a custom motorcycle engineer.)

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:23:42 -0800

Very nice... thanks.. Well edited, great images. /now I'm going to go ride

By: sfts2

sfts2 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:51:31 -0800

I cannot see it for some reason, I see the web page, but video is a blank rectangle. Anyone hazard a guess why?

By: zenon

zenon — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:06:31 -0800

heh. I'm reading Matthew Crawford's treatise on the glory and the pay of manual labours (mefi's gone around on it here, here and finally reached its limit here) and so this sort of video is like pure brain candy. sfts2: its flash, so you'll need a recent version of something that can play it.

By: anti social order

anti social order — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:46:20 -0800

Most beautifuly ugly bike I've seen. From a poet mechanic. Sounds like a facinating guy. Great find.

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:01:07 -0800

This is so good.

By: popechunk

popechunk — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:38:16 -0800

Needs more shots of the bike(s).

By: zenon

zenon — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:59:43 -0800

Now that my curiosity is up here is what I found: The bike in the video likely the one he calls "spike", and if wiki is to believed, is likely one of many built from a pre-1984 HD that Shinya Kimura favors. His style is called wabi sabi (austere refinement), and he's recently moved to Cali with the aim of making art. His blog is suprisingly well done, and he's all ready got the art angle down with a flash heavy website which has many more pics here.

By: sneebler

sneebler — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:02:19 -0800

I really don't think his style is called wabi sabi. But the bikes are great.

By: Shike

Shike — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:07 -0800

thank you for this

By: zenon

zenon — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:25:35 -0800

I put that wrong - it was his wiki page claiming his inspiration was wabi sabi, his particular style is called "Zero" style. I picked up on the wabi sabi because I find it to be a really fascinating idea, and I think it does fit Kimura aesthetic.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:49:39 -0800

More pictures of him 'n his bike here.