This is arguably the world's coolest bike. It looks so much like that bike from Akira. It's just amazing. The thing about these kind of things though, is although they are so cool in the films and in the shops, as soon as you take them into the real world you end up looking like a complete dick. It'd be like going around dressed as batman or the joker all the time. Cool as fuck... in a fictional context.
Take the actual Akira bike that Kaneda rides. There's been so many attempts by people to make one and ride it around. Not one of them looks as cool as it does in the film.
That's because that bike was ONLY cool in the film, where everyone rode space age bikes in a post-apocalyptic 'Neo Tokyo'. Leave it to the realm of fantasy. I urge you, please, I urge you, DO NOT ride around tokyo on your big red fibreglass covered honda scooter in an attempt to be closer to the hero of one of Japan's greatest creations. It's not big or clever.
Oh and someone knocked over the phone box on Charing Cross Road. Wankers.
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