You like Japan's motorcycles, and I'm not referring to the crotch-rockets you can get here in Canada. No, in Japan you'll find a wicked assortment of small displacement bikes and scooters parked on the sidewalks and zipping along narrow, neon streets. Bikes like the Kawasaki Estrella (http://www.kawasaki-estrella.com/html/i-m-versionen.html) and the Honda Super Cub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Super_Cub), or the wicked little 100 cc jobbies the cops ride. Of course, the small phenomenon can be taken to absurd extremes, like the Honda Gorilla, the stupidest-looking motorcycle to ever be street legal anywhere: http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://world.honda.com/news/1998/image/2980122.gif&imgrefurl=http://world.honda.com/news/1998/2980122.html&h=253&w=320&sz=29&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=xlGLERxB9DqkOM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522honda%2Bgorilla%2522%2Bmotorcycle%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den. I'd rather pedal a green machine down the street (remember these? http://blastavenue.blogspot.com/) than be seen on a Gorilla. Okay, that's not true - honestly, you'd have to be a fuckin' jerk to ride either on a city street.
Few of Japan's cool, small bikes can be purchased in Canada, however. So once again in this blog (see http://iwilltellyouwhatyoulike.blogspot.com/2007/07/land-rover.html), I'd like to send Transport Canada a big "You suck!"
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