Comfy Japanese pillion seats

**kave** · 5th August 2008, 20:06

My wife was recently in Japan, and while wandering around in Himeji she found a group of bikers on their custom steeds. As she knew how fond I am of bikes, she took a few pictures.
The paint jobs on these bikes are awesome, but what really blows my mind are the banana seats.

**TOTO** · 5th August 2008, 20:28

I wish I was living in jipen...

Have you got more pucks ?

**Dakara** · 5th August 2008, 20:37

The bars on the 3rd bike crack me up! Definitely some really nice custom efforts there, though none of them appeal to me.

I did notice all the open face lids though....

**kave** · 5th August 2008, 20:39

Just two more pics.

**TOTO** · 5th August 2008, 20:41

that must be Yakuzza youth club...

**Slyer** · 5th August 2008, 20:47

The guy in the third pic is a giant!
They're all wearing pudding bowls for helmets too...

**AllanB** · 5th August 2008, 20:50

They look like the old King & Queen seats on the 70's choppers.

**dipshit** · 5th August 2008, 20:53

Originally Posted by Dakara

The bars on the 3rd bike crack me up!

I'm trying to figure out why the yellow CBX in the 4th pic has a muffler on the handlebars...???

**kave** · 5th August 2008, 20:57

Originally Posted by dipshit

I'm trying to figure out why the yellow CBX in the 4th pic has a muffler on the handlebars...???

I think its actally a drink bottle customised to look like a muffler, if you look at the third pic, the bike behing the kawasaki has a drink holder mounted in exactly the same spot.

Here is a closeup.

**Brian d marge** · 6th August 2008, 12:44

Japanese bososoku ( sp) the nearest thing we have to a bike gang , they ride around looking tough making a shit load of noise on those machines ,,,hence 2 strokes , and the cbx
The style is called Japanese wild style , and goes over into cars and trucks as well trnded to be used by japanese Yankees ( yes they use that term to describe a group of people who are outside the mainstream)

I drink in a Yakusa pub sometimes and the fellas are quite nice , but the boss drives a new Bentley with blacked out windows and what he say DOES go ... you say yes sir no sir ,
Nothing like the booffheads you get in NZ

Stephen

**musicman** · 6th August 2008, 13:31

What's the point of having those nice pillion seats if they don't use it to carry pillions?! I can only see one bike with a pillion, and maybe a couple more that might be carrying pillions... where are all the Japanese chicks?!