seasonal tradition...

in japan, the new year season continues for the seven days from the new year's day and especially the first three days are considered the most important holidays for the japanese. most of businesses are closed and people spend their time with their family eating special food visiting a shrine or a temple etc. 

but here, though we prepared some traditional new year's food, we let the days go past like any other day spending time at the workshop and riding motorcycles. however, this picture, shinya tinkering with a two barrel SU carburetor off of '50s racing car, shows very typical of him during the first three days of the new year. every year he brings his own project (remember his suzuki GS1000?) one year was yoshimura engine, this year SU carb, etc. on the workbench or on the lift and fantasizing about it for a while. this makes me feel that we are in the new year :D

元日から仕事をしてオートバイに乗る、といういつもと変わらない日々を過ごしておりますここはアズサ。もちろん、新しい一年が始まるというのは気持ち的に引き締まりますし、初夢が気になったりもします。しかし結局、アルミを削ったり溶接したり山行ったりの写真しかないので、ブログもひとつもお正月気分になりません。が、こちらの一枚。50年代のレースカーについていたトゥーバレルのSUキャブレターを引っ張り出してきた木村氏。そう、毎年お正月になるとご自分のプロジェクトを出してきてはいじくりながら空想にふける、というのが慣わしになっております。いつかの年はGS1000、ヨシムラ・エンジンの年もありました。これを見るとお正月だなあ、と感じるチャボの新年の風物詩でございます。