16th Scooter Meeting 2012 in Akigase (Part I)

Best Mag Ever!!

This is a two part series of an awesome scooter event I attended this past Veteran's Day weekend.  It was Moto Champ Magazine's 16th Scooter Meeting 2012 in Akigase, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.  If you remember from my previous post, Moto Champ is a magazine devoted to all kinds of motor bikes especially scooters like the Honda Monkey, Dio, Zoomer (Ruckus), and Yamaha Jog.  This event was one of many happenings Moto Champ Magazine sponsors throughout the year.  The 16th Scooter Meeting 2012 in Akigase featured a 1/32 mile shoot out as well as a skills course and parts swap meet.  Along with my moto-crazed friend Soma-san, we traveled about 2 hours to Saitama to see what it was all about.

For Otaku Use Only

Akigase didn't disappoint!!  There were tons of highly modified scooters everywhere!!  Some scooters came straight off of the pages of previous Moto Champ Magazines as featured bikes.  Now I got to see them live in 3D!!  Walking around the pit area was awesome.  I was amazed of all the ways these bikes were modified.  Some you couldn't tell what was the original bike they started off with.  The innovation and time spent on them were second to none.  I thought I was crazy into mopeds but these people were on a different level all together!!  We were in the heart of scooting "Otaku" culture!!

Enjoy some of the highlights of the pits:

Scooters!!  Scooters!! and MORE Scooters:

Moto-Champ Time

Sleeper

Just Crazy

Sleeper

Sponsored by Stage 6

Grocery Getter

Green Machine

with Wicked Rims

Old School

Ass Kicker

Saran Wrapped Wheels

Gangsta

Dragsters

Wicked

Street Legal?

Nice

Nicer Pipe

Zoomer Sponsored by U.S Navy

Drag Zoomer Please

Pizza Delivery

Sponsored by Malossi

Custom Frame

Old School Dragsters

Centerlines

NOS Pizza Delivery Guy

Duals

Hybrid

More Dragsters

Down Low

Huge Expansion Chamber

Trike!!

Not Your Grandma's Trike!!

Daily Driver

Two Seater

Yamaha JOG

Nice Brakes

Lightened

Holy Crap

Monster 

One Of My Favorites

Lining Up For Photos

Flame Out

Two Stroke Oil

Scooter GoPed

Why Doesn't My  Scooter Look Like That

Or That

Gold Standard

All Graphics

Not Only Scooters Came Straight Out Of The Magazine!!

 Who's The Talent Here?  Soma-Stud!!

Swag

Old School JOG

Zoomer Cover

Zoomer Time

Guest Zoomer

Zommer lovers

Kawaii Zoomer

Dragster Zoomer

One Of My Favorites.  Spree Looking!!

Around The Pits

Don't Look Like My Garage

Pits! Pits! Pits!

Zoomer Drooling.

Purple Haze

I Want It!!

I Want That Too!!

Yikes!!  400cc Beast!!

Kowai

Twin Tip

Duals

More Stage 6

Ichiban Scooter!!

Murder Inc!!

Take-Out Delivery

Innovation

Time Well Spent

Kit Scooter

Pit Bike

Classic

Customer Zoomer

Daily Driving Zoomer

Purple Bomber

More Pit Action

Parts! Parts! Parts!

New School

Spree me?

Spree Mitai

Simply Awesome!!

Still Kicking Ass

Golden Boy

Wanna Race?

Zommer In The Lot

GoPed

Monkey Sighting

Check out Part II for highlights of these bikes in action in the 1/32 mile shoot out!!