Sunday, February 14, 2010

one true love...

riding the spike on a one sunny saturday

お天気の良い土曜の朝、久々にスパイクに乗る

 on runway

but shinya could only go second gear
because the runway was too short.
can't go fast on the open road?
that gives him only a pent-up feeling...

しかも滑走路で・・・
だけどもこの滑走路が短すぎて2速までしかいれられない。
誰もいない真っ直ぐな道でスピード出せないなんて、
モヤモヤ感がつのるばかり・・・

and the spike did sniff out shinya's feeling.
hence, the gasoline line broke.
(to pass the race regulation 
it got the copper oil and gasoline lines)

そしてスパイクも木村氏のそのモヤモヤを察知。
その証拠にガソリンラインが折れる。
 (レースのレギュレーションをパスするためにオイルとガソリンのラインは
銅管にしています)

 he couldn't call it a day for some reason
so he had to fix it, right?

でも頼まれごとでまだまだ乗らなくてはならなかったので、
直すしかない・・・

 it wasn't real race so didn't bring much
tools and spare parts but he got to do it 
with whatever he had and could get in his hand 
at that moment, a soap bar for example.
no excuses. that's called professionalism 
or it's just his love of motorcycles especially
for the bike he built himself. 

レースじゃないので大した工具やスペアパーツなんて持ってきていない。
だから手元にあるもので直すしかないさ。
例えば石鹸などはこういう時とても重宝です。
言い訳や文句なしで直している姿にプロっぽさを感じます。
というよりはバイクに対する思い入れの深さかしら。
特に自分で作ったバイクならなお更。

and some vinyl tapes help a lot.

you can't get how much he loves motorcycles
through the photos of him posing on the bike
but you do get it from these photos 
of him immersed in and focused just 
on fixing the bike in front of him
in the determinate environment, 
in his racing suits and helmet on. 
well, many of you DO know 
what i'm talking about here.

あ、ビニールテープも大活躍。

バイクにまたがって気取ってポーズしている写真を見ても
多分木村さんがどれだけバイクが好きか伝わらないと思う。
でもこうやって限られた環境でヘルメットかぶったまま
無我夢中でバイクを直している姿を見ると、
あ、本当に純粋にバイクが好きなんだなあ、と感じます。

on the way back from the airport
we found this antique shop.
visiting thrift stores and antique shops
in a strange small town is such a pleasure!
...even when we were exhausted as hell.

イライラ・モヤモヤを解消するにはスリフトとか古物屋に行くのが一番!
特に知らない町で見つけたら絶対寄っちゃうに決まってるよ。
ということで、行き道から目をつけていたお店に寄る。

stress-buster!!!

あーすっきりした!!!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

That area looks so cool.

Here in DC, I guess I could ride down a airport runway but itd be about 25 seconds before the fbi, cia, & mib where rolling out spike strips.

Looks like a very cool Saturday, nice.

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Anonymous said...

Ayu,

Sent you a pm on the gmail page

t said...

Nice Photos!

matt machine said...

those are great photos ayu...but i love the one of shinya sitting, fixing, but he didnt take his helmet off did he....true faith in fixing the problem.

menacing ayu said...

Bozi: i think they are gonna point a missile at you...

Rockford: got you!

t: thanks! can you believe that some people made him pose for photos and missed all these precious moment. guess they didn't care.

matt@machine: i like that photo, too! it's soooo shinya!!

Gray Mitchell said...

I just passed that antique store the other day. Ive been in there before, some pretty cool stuff!

menacing ayu said...

Gray Mitchell: really? what a coincidence!