KHS F20-R Photo
09-07-09, 02:55 AM
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KHS F20-R Photo
Took a run down to the somewhat local bike shop about an hour away and snapped this photo of the KHS bike that is rapidly winning my affection.
Probably won't get it but that doesn't mean I don't want it.
In a related story today was the day I finally got some photos of the monument to the American B-24 Bomber shot down near here at the end of WW2. This site isn't too horribly far from the LBS.
The crew was captured and taken to Hiroshima where they were died during the Atomic Bombing. While the monument is in Japanese its more of a Peace Memorial. It basically says "this thing happened here during war, we hope for peace, and hope nothing like this happens again"
It seems so unusual to me that the Japanese would construct a monument to a shot down enemy aircraft. But the tie in is Hiroshima. Anyway I found it damned interesting.
The name of the aircraft was the "Lonesome Lady" googling it finds a some good resources from what I think was the only survivor from the crew. The other guy was taken somewhere other than Hiroshima and actually released at the end of the war rather than killed by his captors.
Probably won't get it but that doesn't mean I don't want it.
In a related story today was the day I finally got some photos of the monument to the American B-24 Bomber shot down near here at the end of WW2. This site isn't too horribly far from the LBS.
The crew was captured and taken to Hiroshima where they were died during the Atomic Bombing. While the monument is in Japanese its more of a Peace Memorial. It basically says "this thing happened here during war, we hope for peace, and hope nothing like this happens again"
It seems so unusual to me that the Japanese would construct a monument to a shot down enemy aircraft. But the tie in is Hiroshima. Anyway I found it damned interesting.
The name of the aircraft was the "Lonesome Lady" googling it finds a some good resources from what I think was the only survivor from the crew. The other guy was taken somewhere other than Hiroshima and actually released at the end of the war rather than killed by his captors.
09-07-09, 03:26 AM
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Gorgeous bike. Love the color scheme. I want one. Wonder why there's an American flag decal on it.
09-07-09, 12:31 PM
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Sweet! I remember that there was a KHS thread here with lots of cool bikes. Only, those bikes were only available in the far east. Thanks for posting it.
09-07-09, 02:15 PM
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I didn't get the price tag in the photo But it cost 110,000 yen which is a little less than $1200 now with the crappy Yen rate. If the yen rate were decent this would be quite a deal.
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