Moto Champu Zasshi

Living in Japan, I have the luxury of accessing the many scooter magazines (zasshi) this moter-bike crazed country has to offer.  Scooter or moped magazines are a rarity back in the States especially Hawaii.  One of my favorite magazines here is "Moto Champu".  Moto Champu (or Moto Champ) features a lot of bikes like the Honda Monkey, Dio ZX, and Yamaha Jog ZR.  The content is all in Japanese but it's worth buying for the pictures alone.

I can read this.  It's the Kanji for book.

These stores are all over Japan.

I usually try to get some of my magazines at the used bookstore called "Book-Off".  Here you can find tons of used books, magazines, mangas, etc.  If you can read a little Katakana, you can figure out where to look.

The red section is "Biiku"magazines.

If your lucky, you can find past issue magazines for 100 yen (about a dollar) each.  I was lucky enough to find these:

3 bucks for all three!!

Just down the block from my house.

But if you aren't looking for past issues and want to get the most current ones, a trip to the neighborhood bookstore is just the place to get them.

Like I said, they have all kinds of scooter and motorcycle magazines:

Get choke...

...mags!!

...choke...

Hmm..never saw this one before.

But this is the one I came for.

Moto Champu!!  550 yen (about 6 bucks)

The good thing about buying it new is that sometimes it comes with some free goodies!!

September 2012 issue

With a goody inside!!

This month: key chain pliers!!

I managed to score some stuff from past issues:

Freebies!!

  

Now let's check out what Moto Champu has to offer:

Bikes!!

Bikes!!

And more bikes!!

Q&A with the cover "torento" (model).

But all in Japanese.  But who' reading the Kanji anyway ;)

One torento in every issue.

They are really into the Honda Monkey here.

And a lot of customization.

On bikes not available in the States.

And of course some that kind of are.

Crazy fast bikes!!

But they are hardly recognizable.

Scooter rally!!

And moped racing!!