A DIFFERENT KIND OF IDEA..BOSOZOKU STYLE...

If you’re ever in Japan, do not confuse bosozoku and bukkake. The first is an outlaw biker subculture with outrageous rides; the second is pretty gross and involves towels. Lots and lots of towels. Now that we've got that distinction out of the way, we can talk about Andy Carter's Golden Dawn, here. Built in the bosozoku style, it’s seriously over the top, just like its cousins across the Pacific. Literally translated from Japanese, bosozoku means, “reckless tribe.” First seen in Japan in the 1950s, early bosozoku riders were akin to British rockers. Usually, bosozoku are young people under the age of 20. The movement/culture grew over the years, and by the 1980s and 1990s, bosozoku were getting together for massed pack rides, some with as many as 100 riders, sometimes street racing or weaving in and out of traffic or fighting just for fun. Membership peaked at over 42,000 in the early ’80s but has fallen to a fraction of that in recent years. It seems the good people of Japan had enough of their antics; laws passed in the past 10 years or so gave the po-po greater latitude in dealing with them.