I think it does look fully gangster, provided it's John Woo filming Chow Yuen-Fat somewhere in Taipei in the 80's and the whole soundtrack is done in synth, and he's riding that bike at night with sunglasses on through a neon lit Asian cityscape to a drug meet with a damn bad guy called Big Boss and his crew of psychotic henchpersons, while his best mate who also happens to be a cop is closing in along with the SWAT team, and the whole thing is a gigantic everybody fucks everybody doublecross. *
The bike is simply in the wrong place and time, anyone trying that in Napier is just going to look silly.
* Yeah I might have gone through a bit of a John Woo phase but I don't regret it.
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