{"id":27188,"date":"2022-06-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=27188"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:45:55","slug":"8am-thoughts-bikes-unpopular-bikes-are-actually-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20220617\/blogs\/thoughts\/8am-thoughts-bikes-unpopular-bikes-are-actually-good","title":{"rendered":"8 AM Thoughts: Bikes. Unpopular bikes (*\u00b4\u8278`) are actually pretty good, you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A seriously unpopular bike: the Inazuma 1200<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, when I stop at a parking area, nobody even looks at it? Nobody seems to care at all!!!!
Well, that’s what makes it easy and nice (*^-^*)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s also the advantage of having fewer worries, like whether it might get stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

(\u00b4\u0434\uff9f) That’s about the only look it gets.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you stop at a parking area, there are often riders taking a break, right?
I look at them too, and everyone does the same.

But with the Inazuma 1200, nobody looks at it at all? It gives off an almost invisible presence.
In a way, while it might feel lonely, it’s actually really easy and nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who’s going to steal it? Nobody, right? (*\u00b4\u8278`)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If this were a Z and I was alone, I’d be a bit nervous about taking a break without the handlebar lock.
The Inazuma 1200 that nobody cares about.
Even if someone stole it, they wouldn’t make any money… sad, really. But that carefree feeling is actually pretty nice.

You can just hop off without even locking the handlebars and head straight to the restroom!
You can pop into a convenience store without worry. This carefree feeling might be the best thing about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bikes called classics are a hassle?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Because of my job, I go to inspections often, and bringing in bikes that are called classics is honestly scary.

You have to pass them through quickly and load them up fast, and you absolutely have to remove the key or it’s risky.
People start talking to you right away, and there’s really a lot of annoying stuff that comes with it.

It makes sense that they only come out around New Year’s, Obon, and year-end (*\u00b4\u8278`)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, will the Inazuma 1200 become a classic?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It won’t… I think. No, it definitely won’t.
It might gain some quiet popularity, but I don’t think it’ll ever establish an iconic status.

The tank looks like an XJR, and the tail kind of resembles a Zephyr, doesn’t it?
In a way, the design just doesn’t have much effort put into it.
Suzuki’s professional way of doing things?

Well, but it’s a good bike… there’s just so much I want to do with it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A seriously unpopular bike: the Inazuma 1200 By the way, when I stop at a parking area, nobody even looks at it? Nobody seems to care at all!!!!Well, that’s what makes it easy and nice (*^-^*) There’s also the advantage of having fewer worries, like whether it might get stolen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-27188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}