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Dekochari customized bikes, Aug 2008

44 images Created 21 Nov 2008

"Dekochari" are bicyles customized to look like the "deko-tora" ("decorated trucks") popular in Japan. The dekochari owners are normally schoolchildren too young to own driving licenses.
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  • Shota Akabane (18) with his decochari customized bicycle. The bicycle has 28 lights powered by a car battery and a truck horn.
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  • Shota Akabane (18) with his decochari customized bicycle. The bicycle has 28 lights powered by a car battery and a truck horn.
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  • Shota Akabane (18) wearing Hello Kitty sandals. Decochari fashion?
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  • Kazuki Abe (18) with his decochari customized bicycle. The bicycle took 7 months to make. "There are only 10 people in our national decochari club. We need to try harder."
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  • Kazuki Abe (18) with his decochari customized bicycle. The bicycle took 7 months to make. "There are only 10 people in our national decochari club. We need to try harder."
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  • Decochari owners working on one of the bikes.
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  • Easy riders. Decochari owners with their bikes.
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  • Easy riders. Decochari owners with their bikes.
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  • Kiyotaka Takahashi (19) riding his decochari customized bicycle. He works as a truck driver. "I spent more money on my decochari than my truck."
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  • Yuji Yoshida (14) riding his decochari customized bicycle. "It's got 50 lights on there now. The battery runs out after about 30 minutes."
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  • Shota Hashimoto (13) with his decochari customized bicycle. "My bike weighs 30 to 40 kilos, so its a bit hard to drive on the road."
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  • A piece of cardboard to flip against the spokes and give the bike some Vroom.
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  • Shota Hashimoto (13) with his decochari customized bicycle. "My bike weighs 30 to 40 kilos, so its a bit hard to drive on the road."
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  • An air cylinder for a truck horn fixed to a decochari.
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  • Complicated wiring on a decochari customized bicycle.
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  • Decochari bicycle seat.
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  • Japanese flags and devil illustration on the back of a decochari customized bicycle.
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  • Mitsunari Fujita (14) rides his decochari customized bicycle along the side of a rice field. He spent 4 years working on the bike in his garage.
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  • Mitsunari Fujita (14) rides his decochari customized bicycle along the side of a rice field. He spent 4 years working on the bike in his garage.
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  • Easy riders. Decochari owners with their bikes.
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  • Decochari customized bicycles. The lights are powered by car batteries.
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  • Yuji Yoshida (14) riding his decochari customized bicycle. "It's got 50 lights on there now. The battery runs out after about 30 minutes."
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  • A customized truck. The bicycles are smaller versions.
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  • A customized truck and decochari bicycle side by side.
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  • Rear of a decochari customized bicycle. The lights are powered by a car battery.
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  • Rear of a decochari customized bicycle. The lights are powered by a car battery.
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  • Side view of a decochari customized bike. The flag says "number one".
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  • Mitsunari Fujita (14) rides his decochari customized bicycle along the side of a rice field. He spent 4 years working on the bike in his garage.
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  • Shota Hashimoto (13) rides his decochari customized bicycle along the side of a rice field. "My friends are pretty impressed."
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  • Easy riders. Decochari owners with their bikes.
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  • Yuji Yoshida (14) riding his decochari customized bicycle. "It's got 50 lights on there now. The battery runs out after about 30 minutes."
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  • Easy riders. Decochari owners with their bikes.
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  • With so many lights the wiring on decochari is fiendishly complex.
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  • A decochari customized bicycle with stereo system and CDs. It is all powered by a car battery.
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  • A decochari customized bicycle with stereo system and CDs. It is all powered by a car battery.
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  • A decochari customized bicycle with stereo system and CDs. It is all powered by a car battery.
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  • Decochari owner Yuji Yoshida (14) checks the lights and horns on his bike.
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  • Yuji Yoshida (14) and two decochari customized bicycles.
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  • Decochari customized bicycle. The lights are powered by car batteries.
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  • Yuji Yoshida (14) riding his decochari customized bicycle. "It's got 50 lights on there now. The battery runs out after about 30 minutes."
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  • Yuji Yoshida's (14) decochari customized bicycle. "It's got 50 lights on there now. The battery runs out after about 30 minutes."
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  • A customized truck. The bicycles are smaller versions.
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  • Kiyotaka Takahashi in a customized truck. The bicycles are smaller versions.
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  • A sign in a customized truck. It says "Hold onto the steering wheel the same way you hold the woman you love: softly and with both hands."
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