Geekologie I Watch Stuff The Superficial

The Only 'Officially Recognized' Akira Bike Replica

April 6, 2012 / awesome, bike, daddy likes, do want, for a good cause, good lookin', holy smokes, impressive, let me sit on it and make vroom vroom noises!, man i would drive that thing off a ramp and over 40 schoolbuses is what i would do -- while on fire, manga, replica, vroom vroom kabloom, yes please

akira-bike-1.jpg

This is a replica of Shotaro Kaneda's bike from Akira, built by Masashi Teshima over the past seven years for a cost of around $120K. It's the only replica with the official blessing of Akira's creator Katsuhiro Otomo, and now Teshima is riding the bike across Japan to raise money for children's autism. Afterwards, the bike will be on display at an exhibit celebrating Akira's creator, where it will be raising money for victims of last year's earthquake/tsunami. And after THAT, it will be purchased by yours truly and ridden up and down the street while wearing a Godzilla mask and yelling at my neighbors about the dangers of nuclear proliferation. They will call the police. There will be a chase, and I will crash into a mailbox trying to jump a curb. I will be tazed and, God willing, not evacuate my bowels this time. You can't make friends in the clink with soupy drawls!

Hit the jump for several more shots and some videos of the bike going vroom vroom.

akira-bike-2.jpg

akira-bike-3.jpg

akira-bike-4.jpg

The Akira Bike of Your Dreams Is Racing Across Japan [kotaku]

Thanks to Chance and Community Chest (sorry I couldn't help myself!) and Manuel78, who both want a replica of the bike from Peewee's Big Adventure.

  •
    TRON Light Cycle Replicas, Now With Video
    December 1, 2010
    Note: Video of the cycle's maiden voyages after the jump. Remember the replica Light Cycles that Parker Brothers Choppers (not to be confused with the makers of Monopoly, Clue and Sorry!) were selling commissions for on eBay? Well the first couple have been made, and there's ... / Continue →
  • Amazingly Amazing DIY Daft Punk Helmet
    July 22, 2010
    Want a futuristic space helmet like the guys from Daft Punk wear? Well now you can make your own, thanks to a in-depth build page by Volpin Props (the makers of the amazing Bioshock Big Daddy suit). Just look at it. I bet you don't even need a spaceship to fly to the stars w... / Continue →
  • Up For Auction: Dr. Who TARDIS Murphy Bed
    December 1, 2010
    Did anybody else know there was a bed in that thing? Because I didn't. Of course, you could write a small pamphlet about all the the things I don't know. Sike! They'd all fit on one side of a Post-It. Anyway, some talented craftsman is selling the Tardis pull-out bed he ma... / Continue →
There are Comments
  • Ron

    listen everyone is jealous because they cant get it in a store and I bet they dont have the skill set to build one of there own! But I do I love the bike . Nice job

  • spadeisaspade

    Far too clean and big and bubbly looking. Decals are far too big as well.

  • sorry rednecks.. no loud pipes..you can not tell the the CC of an engine from the exhaust pipe sound..

  • MightyMolecule

    fairly certain the rider's orientation is wrong, but whatever. with otomo's vision slowly but surely leaking out towards mainstream western reiteration where the big bucks reside what does he care.

  • The original is just too badass to copy. Nice try. 

  • Tarl Cabot

    If you listen to the engine in this you will hear that it is a scooter engine. Low VERY low CC, an automatic and very shitty.
    5 years and 150k and this was the result? How weak. I men yeah it LOOKS good, but what a POS under the flash.
    For 150k I'd go to Jesse james  or one of the other big names and ask for it to be done right.

  • Agree. It can't even seem to go faster than 10MPH.

  • Shaun9lives

    Geat replica, but, like many things in anime and video games, that riding position just doesn't look nearly as cool in real life.  

  • DarkRyNo

    So is that guy a cousin of the Stig? (tame racing driver from Top Gear, for those who dont know)

  • At least it's not Keanu...

  • beau giovannitti

    shit looks weak, and very unimpressive..  it was boring.

  • chris27scot

     as cool as it is...its like a miniture version...

  • Ive wanted for years to either paint my bike like Kaneda's bike or like a Cyclone from Robotech. Man I have dreams about a bike like this but I think its only a 250cc or something along those lines, very small output engine and I would want something a bit bigger, at least a 600cc or 1000cc engine. Also the bike looks kinda tiny but damn its sexy as fuck. 

  • The problem with a 1000cc engine is that it's steering wouldn't be able to keep up... You'd have to drop probably twice that for a real bike and even then you'd probably only be able to make it 600cc.

  • Nothing screams virginity more than this.

  • Liang Li

    all this stuff and the cosplay they do could deginitely use a bit ... no a lot of grunge. you cant convey power overwhelming, wild and reckless anbandon, teen angst, and ... cleanliness at the same time

  • oh my KANEDA! i want one, shit i'll take three! 

blog comments powered by Disqus