CDS5K x Bōsōzoku

I managed to find another amazing example of Japanese sub-culture to personally obsess over known as BOSOZOKU. It's mostly a way to customize your car or motorcycle in a bizarro-ass Japanese way. Think like low rider car club style, but with that certain Japanese pop and charm. Bōsōzoku, wasn't always a weird car club for dork ass nerds (like it appears to be now). The word Bōsōzoku translates to American speak as "Violent Running tribe". Motorcycle gangs of kids in their late teens and early 20's, would recklessly cruise the streets of 1970's and 80's Japan in large groups causing general mayhem. They were known to assault people protesting their kaminari zoku or "Thunder Tribe", with wooden swords, metal pipes, baseball bats and Molotov cocktails. Starting back in the 1950's, they were just straight up biker gangs, from poor ass neighborhoods, being like, "fuck you guys, this shit sucks... so suck our shit!" Beautiful! Also, after turning 20 years old, a lot of these dudes would get a lower ranking position in the Yakuza, pretty cool! Unfortunately, Bōsōzoku have evolved to be, as I stated earlier, nerds with custom cars and bikes. Best I can tell they basically use their bike to just weave back and forth as they drive honking horns... come on guys. Get your shit together, cause some mayhem!... On that note, Japan is not a place known for fucking around with its law enforcement. They will just lock your ass up for a fucking grip and be like, "There asshole, still wanna be an asshole? You just lost 5 years, Try again." So, I get it, OBEY!!! Anyway the star of the show for me is the bikes and the riders themselves, look at this cray-cray shiz. I tried to keep most of my examples as OG as possible, there is a lot of newer crap out there... Also, there is just generally not a lot of stuff out there on the Bōsōzoku. Some guy is trying to kickstart a documentary... Also it looks like there might be a Taschen type art book out there on the Bōsōzoku... Enjoy the photos!