The Revolution of the Bobber Kulture
By Alex Mardikian
A Rebellious Revolution historically manifested after the Depression
in a resistance of early America, enhanced the way freedom is
enjoyed today through the Kulture developed by the Bobber. Neither
promises nor speeches, commanded by any elected official or representative
could amend this revolution, opposing the expression of warfare
and political conflict and setting the way for the future course
of American defiance.  The Rebel, a kin of American manner, materialized
a union of faith sovereign upon the open road of escape, on a
customized motorcycle enhancing the sense of sex, danger, speed,
non conformity, innovation, creativity, fetish, and most of all,
self identity.
Comprised of Civil Battles tracing back to the human
element of customizing motorcycles, the American Rebel contested
the
pre-war
mechanical monsters and the conservative provision of acceptance
upon social aristocrats, which dawned a new era of machine, known
as the Bobber. Embodied by the simple expression of a two wheel
machine that was stripped down, the Kulture was defined and methods
were adopted to make the Bobber hopped up and built for speed,
sacrificing a level of comfort.  Simple young men changed, emerging
from WWII, claiming their independence by traveling on a motorcycle,
into an Icon Lifestyle and Rebel Kulture. This rebel movement
has been recognized and recorded over several decades and has
continued
to respectfully expand worldwide as the Kustom Kulture. A tradition
of non-conformity, endless asphalt tales, obsessive tactics of
speed and the self-dignity of a true identity mirrors the past
state of rebellion, which originated the Bobber, and its motorcycle
dream of the danger, the thrill and the freedom.
Bobber Kulture has been carried on to a new level
by a working class of amateur engineers, which we know today as
Master Builders,
that keep transforming and customizing the redeemed level of
excitement to go faster, be lighter and coincidentally louder,
preserving
an era of style dictated not by the manufacturer but of the
individual taste on the street.
The bobber and its distinct ability to express nostalgia
and a trend of rebellion, has paved the road as a major component
of
creative medium defining the art form in its entirety. Mechanical
achievements, kustom painting, pin striping, along with hand
metal and leather tooling are part of the skills, attitude,
hard work
and ingenuity which exists from the garage roots of American
Motorcycling and the Hot Rodding lifestyle of yesterday.
|
 |
