{"id":21321,"date":"2011-07-08T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21321"},"modified":"2022-06-30T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:41:13","slug":"kott-custom-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/kott-custom-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Kott Custom Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What follows is a really nice short film about the philosophy, practice and approach of LA-based custom bike builders Kott.<\/p>\n

There’s an increasing number of these sorts of passionate engineering houses stripping away the crap and breathing new life into vintage bikes – and a lot of these crews are putting out interesting promo videos to promote what they do.<\/p>\n

This film, though, is one of the best we’ve seen.<\/p>\n

It highlights that fascinating obsession that American bike culture has with the caf\u00e9 racer style – and it teases out some of the reasons why there’s such an affinity with US style ‘hot rod’ bikes with the dropped bared, pared down purposefulness of British A-road racers from the fifties and sixties.<\/p>\n

It also brings out a common thread in custom bike culture – the fact that very often love of motorcycling and building and customising bikes is passed down generation to generation, father to son and family to family.<\/p>\n

Its not surprising that the unique quality of each and every hand wrought re-interpretation infused with these values truly moves the soul – as well as the rear end – with a unique kind of grace.<\/p>\n