For everyone who was a teenage two-stroke tearaway

This article will strike a chord if you were. A guy called Jamie Morris has been documenting the end of the Japanese Bosozouko or "speed tribes" . The kids wear outrageous and heavily embroidered uniforms and many ride elaborately customised mid-sized two strokes .... sound familiar?

http://www.gaijinchannel.com/index.php/2011/09/02/sayonara-speed-tribes-a-journey/

In the land of the Rising Sun...

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Originally uploaded by Janta9G1340

Somehow Japan keeps getting forgotten in the great scheme of Kustom Kulture. There are times I love their take on the themes over the more Western cultural imagery.

They do have a tradition of taking something existing and moulding it to their culture. Check out some of this guys pics on Flickr