BRATSTYLE
There's an active Japanese custom bike culture that has a style all its own. Starting with some of the same bikes we would start with over here in North America and many that get no attention here whatsoever, they put their own unique mark on these machines. A bit of cafe racer with lots of street tracker mixed in, too.
Brat Style is a shop in Japan run by bike builder, Go Takamine, that builds a somewhat unique brand of bobber (at least as unique as any other prolific builder) - more often than not based off of smaller displacement Japanase bikes. Similar characteristics of most of their bikes seem to include lowered but otherwise stock suspension, often, frame modifications to lower the seating area, slab/moto inspired seats, and otherwise many of the other features common to other "bobbers". The bikes pictured below all come from the Japanese website, Bratstyle. They chop and build Honda CB750s, Triumph 650s, Yamaha XS650s and SR600s. Quite a few Kawasaki W650s get the treatment, too.
After looking into many options about what to do to my '76 Yamaha XS650 I've obviously decided to go with the "Brat Style" bike. I'm hoping I can get started in October and be finished by next Spring.
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