Shinya Kimura @ chabott engineering

My friend Jason found me this video of Shinya Kimura, formerly known as the founder of "ZERO" or the so-called "ZERO Style" motorcycles. He has launched his own workshop called "chabott engineering" in the city of Azusa, California in 2006.

In his 25 year career in the motorcycle world, Kimura started his own small repair shop named Chabo in 1992, a year before he started ZERO in Japan. Chabo means "bantam rooster" in Japanese and, to Kimura, it means "back to basics". To me, his style is so raw and brutally functional, and yet there is so much beauty in his work. I am thinking of incorporating his style into my next build.

shinya kimura @ chabott engineering from Henrik Hansen on Vimeo.