{"id":15164,"date":"2010-07-01T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15164"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:19:40","slug":"shinya-kimura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/shinya-kimura\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinya Kimura"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Portrait via<\/em> www.chabottengineering.com<\/p>\n

The Japanese are blessed with a long tradition of rigorous craftsmanship. From calligraphy and type design to silk printing and sword making \u2013 there are centuries old ways of doing things that put process as far to the forefront as product.<\/p>\n

Tokyo bred Shinya Kimura is one of the many Japanese craftsmen in this tradition turning their hands to motorcycles. Working these days in California, the application of his meticulous, back-to-basics philosophy is producing fiendishly beautiful bikes.<\/p>\n

“For me a motorcycle is more than art,” he says, “it’s something that brings out my instincts, the wildness and vulnerability in me.”<\/p>\n

Do yourself a favour. Take two minutes and forty five seconds to watch this video.<\/p>\n