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JAPAN has a very healthy custom motorcycle culture, building world-class show bikes and thousands of cool daily-ridden street bikes. Leading the way is Kengo Kimura, whose Hiroshima workshop, Heiwa Motorcycles, has dominated the show scene in recent years while turning out hundreds of street-legal customs for discerning customers all over the country.

We featured Heiwa’s sublime 1966 Triumph TR6 rigid bobber, called ‘Master Peace’, on the cover of #27 — means peace in Japanese — fresh from its win at the Mooneyes Yokohama Custom Show at