Shinya Kimura
LA Calendar Best of Show Winner, Hollywood Actor Brad Pitt’s Favorite Builder
Japanese custom bike builder Shinya Kimura has a unique style designing very original performance themed customs from buckets of old parts. Shinya made his first ever America appearance at the 2004 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend were he clinched Best of Show in the Calendar Bike Building Championship. A few months later this winning bike was photographed by FastDates.com Calendar photographer Jim Gianatsis with one of the beautiful Calendar Kittens.
Pictures from that shoot were with the bike used both in the ad campaign for the 2005 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend and the Iron & Lace Calendar . Soon after that the winning bike was purchased by motorcycle enthusiast and Hollywood actor Brad Pitt. The paparazzi in Hollywood have photographed Brad Pitt riding our Kimura Calendar bike from his home in Beverly Hills, down to the Hollywood studios and around town. Needless to say, Brad and wife Angelia like to keep a low profile in public. But we can tell you that this past winter Brad commissioned Kimura to build him, personally, two more unique custom bikes. And those two bikes should just about be finished now. And Kimura will again be at this year’s Calendar Show with some cool custom bikes in his booth. And who knows? Maybe the bikes’ proud new owner will be there to check them out.
