Tuesday, September 10, 2013

color coding and big tank...


this'll be the biggest and heaviest gas tank that shinya has ever made :)

これは木村氏が作ってきた歴代ガソリンタンクの中で最も大きくて重いそうです。
 
and this is the biggest and heaviest gas tank that shinya has ever buffed :D

そして、こんなに重いものをバフ掛けしたのも初めて。よっ!初めてづくし。



recently someone told us that motorcycle building is still a blue-collar work. shinya and i looked each other's interrogative faces when we heard that because we've never thought about what category of business we were into. i personally don't care what color our collars are, wait, we don't even wear collared shirts during work ;P anyway, we're doing whatever we love and if it requires hard work or physical work we'll do it! at the end of the day or at the time when we accomplished something and if we could still feel "man, it was hard but we love what we do!" then it's all cool. every work has hard and difficult sides so we just don't blame on the color of the collar.

ちょうど最近、「バイクビルダーなんて所詮はブルーカラーだよ」という持論を持っている人に出会った。その時木村氏を見たら、ん?という顔をしていた。この仕事が一体どういうカテゴリーに入るのかなんて考えたこともない。そもそも仕事中に襟の付いたシャツなどを着ないで日々を過ごしている胡散臭い我々にとって、もはや襟の色が何色なんてどうでもよい。ただ、一日の終わりにもしくは何かを完成させた時に、あーやっぱりこの仕事好きだわ、と思えればいい。どんな仕事にも大変なこと辛いこと難しいことが必ずあると思う。だからそれを襟の色のせいにする必要はない。「大変なことばかりだけど、好きな事をやっているので。好きな事だからこそ何があっても乗り越えられるんだと思います。」と言っていた王様サニーのことを思い出した。そうそう、色分けするよりも大切なことがあるよねー。


4 comments:

Busch Brothers said...

well said! We totally agree, we would rather have the knowledge and experience, andd satisfaction knowing we created something from our mind and that it works, than to be "white collar", and not have to do hard work to be "successful" in the eyes of somebody else. You guys are such an inspiration :-)

Alfred said...

That's a big tank, indeed! Suits the beamer well.
Personally I'm in the software development business (is that white collar? don't know, really), but the satisfaction I get when I make something in 3D that I can see, feel and watch, is much greater then some computer program.

Anonymous said...

I have what people call a "white collar" job and although I work very hard to produce an end product, it doesn't leave me very satisfied at the end of the day. That is why I build bikes in my free time. It's where my heart is. The work coming out of Chabott Engineering is such a wonderful beacon. Thank you.

matthias said...

anonymous, you are so right! As a "white collar" man from Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart I can tell you, that I feel the same... During my spare time I enyoy old cars and bikes, too.

Greetings from Germany, Matthias