Cleat sent me a little link that reminded me why I love Japan. Sometimes, especially in the world of scooters, it’s like they skip the whole conceptung and proto-typing phase and just put things right into production. Take the Yamaha VOX for instance. It’s got what appears to be a felt-lined violin case built right under the seat. Now this is actually a concept, but I have seen stuff outta Japan that has made me think “WTF were they THINKing? And… where can I get one?”.
In celebration of Japanese scooter design, I’ve written a little Haiku. Please allow me to recite.
Good friends in Japan
How we envy your scooters
Please pass the soy sauce
How we envy your scooters
Please pass the soy sauce
Check out the comments for more Haiku luvin’! Enter your own! The basic rules are easy… 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. What’cha got?
***UPDATE***
Click HERE to get the update on the VOX.
6. December 2005 at 1:16 pm
Now that’s some Haiku, my friend!! Couldn’t agree more.
6. December 2005 at 5:37 pm
Good friends in Japan
How we envy your scooters
May we have some please?
6. December 2005 at 5:38 pm
I think there is room for my dulcimer under that seat!
6. December 2005 at 5:46 pm
Haiku competition Entry #3
Bless’ed are those in
The Land of the sun rising
We are step children.
6. December 2005 at 5:49 pm
Entry 4
Wipe away sad tears
American scooter man
we can’t all be Japs
6. December 2005 at 5:55 pm
I stand here looking
Nippon, a far away land
Please help me import
6. December 2005 at 6:01 pm
U.S. D.O.T.
Won’t let me bring you back home
F*cking P*ece of S*it
29. June 2006 at 12:39 am
Drum brakes front and rear?
A fifty cc four stroke?
Not for my two grand.