Brad Pitt's latest Ducati

[motolocopat]

I think it's cool. Great conversation piece and that is what it is meant to be.

Zero Engineering... think about it ZERO ENGINEERING... that is the name of the company.
It is not supposed to be engineered it is supposed to be some form of art that provokes conversation.

What does it matter how well the brakes work, does anyone really think that it will ever see any serious road time and what time it does spend on the road will not be at speed most likely.
Get real he has the latest greatest stuff for that duty... This will be a come out to the shop and check out my collection......
Then it's back in the house and bang Angelina

[DoubleEagle]

Is that Jennifer?

   No, go to ecosse.com .  It's a custom bike site.    Dolph   

[NorDog]

You know you've arrived when you can spend oodles of cash on something that ugly!

I saw this bike today (or one veeeery similar) out on HWY 39 today.  I met Shinya Kimura as well; he was nice to speak to.  There was another guy and another bike (below) there as well (not sure who rode what).



When I saw pics of the Shinya Ducati I did not care for it at all, but must say that, for me at least, this is a case of something not photographing nearly as well as it looks in person, so to speak.

[SOLOMONster]

Great Scott! It looks like a cross between a jap bike and a stainless DeLorean.

[DoubleEagle]

I'd hit that.   

I'd hit that...with a sledge hammer !

[DNAspark99]

What, 4 pages and no one has posted this most-excellent video yet?

[spolic]

It reminds me of those ugly bikes from the Capt America thread.

[Drunken Monkey]

I love these bikes, but I'm a complete whore for any sort of bare, hand-tooled metal 

[thought]

i'm actually a big fan of shinya's work... there is something about simple worked and polished metal that really calls to me.

and i love his design philosophy of trying to use as much of the original bike as possible for a custom design

[SOLOMONster]

Thanks for posting that video, DNAspark99.  I don't like all of his bikes by any means, but he is a legit artist.

[xcaptainxbloodx]

If I wasnt about to get married and getting steady work I would be selling/packing my shit and camping outside his shop until Mr. Kimura would take me as his apprentice.

his bikes are a true piece of Art, we can debate aesthetics for years and never agree (which is a good thing in many ways) but we can all agree that his bikes are done with an unbelievable amount of skill and vision. I look at his bikes and I know its HIS bike, not a new take on an old idea or an homage to this or that but a brand new 100% one-of-a-kind machine.