Wow！もう10年前になるんですね！本当に、10年もあっという間ですね！

2014年3月23日（10年前）

☆☆☆希少４０００番台の初期型Z1がSOLD OUTに☆☆☆

皆さん、こんばんは、今日は久々に晴天で気温が上がってバイク日和になりましたね。さて、茨城県から朝４時に出発され、BRUIN開店時間前に来店されたN様が、BRUIN広告トップセンターに出ていた４０００番台の初期型Z1（From New York)をご購入くださりました。これで、また一台BRUINの看板車両がGoneになってしまいました。

　Nさんは現役サーファーで、今でもたまに波乗りをするそうです。ちなみに、現在はCB750Fも所有されていて、前からZ1には憧れはあったそうで、今回は思い切って初期型Z1－Debutになりました。自分も30年ほど前、Los Angelesで少しサーフィンをしましたが、米国でも日本でもそうですが、サーフィンをする人は目が澄んでいて爽やかな人が多いですね。自分も、もし信州上田で波乗りができれば、きっとサーフィンをしていたでしょう！！ボードにまたがり、波をひたすら待っている時の感じが好きでした！！

　Thank You So Much,
　　　　茨城県のN様

N様には、上記当時物New York ナンバープレートを記念に持って帰ってもらいました！！なんか、この自由の女神が入ったナンバープレート粋でいいでよね！！いろいろな事情がありヨーロッパから米国に移民し、フランスから送られたこの自由の女神を船から見て、新天地アメリカで頑張ろうとヨーロッパ移民達は胸に誓った事でしょう。

実は私は、New Yorkが大好きです。本当はNew Yorkにも住みたいです！！　

The Goddamn Nice '73 Z1　From New York Is Soon To Be Yours!!　

ちなみに、NさんはHawaiiが大好きだそうで、また行きたいと言っていました！！私もHawaiiは3回ほど行きましたが大好きです。一度ダイヤモンドヘッドでスキューバをしました事も有りました。また、東京でサラリーマンをしていた時（バブリーな時代）、青山の伊藤忠商事本社の会長ルームで、ハワイ州知事（１９９１年当時）とご一緒したことがありました。今からは考えられませんが当時オワフ島カラカウワ通り沿いに５０００億円ほどの予算でコンベンションセンターを作る計画があり、私も当時少しだけ関係したことがありました。今となっては、私のサラリーマン時代の一番いい思い出です。伊藤忠本社のエントランスから会長室まで赤絨毯がひかれてあり、そこを歩きました。当然、その計画もバルブ崩壊とともに消えました。

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The "shaka" sign is a common greeting in Hawaiian culture, commonly confused with surfer culture.

The shaka sign, sometimes known as "hang loose", is a gesture often associated with Hawaii and surf culture. It consists of extending the thumb and smallest finger while holding the three middle fingers curled, and gesturing in salutation while presenting the front or back of the hand; the hand may be rotated back and forth for emphasis. The shaka sign was adopted from local Hawaiian culture by visiting surfers in the 1960s, and its use has spread around the world.

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Meaning and use[edit]

Hawaiians use the shaka to convey the "Aloha Spirit", a concept of friendship, understanding, compassion, and solidarity among the various ethnic cultures that reside within Hawaii, lacking a direct semantic to literal translation. The shaka can also be used to express "howzit?", "thanks, eh?", and "all right!" Drivers will often use it on the road to communicate distant greetings and gratitude.

In American Sign Language, the shaka is one of the two signs used to refer to surfing.^{[citation needed]} In California, the shaka sign may be referred to as "hang loose" or "hang ten"- both associated with surfer culture.

The gesture enjoys common use in American hang gliding culture, for both sentiment and word play, in part due to the simultaneous rise of surfing and hang gliding in California in the 1960s and 70s.

Along coastal Brazil, the shaka sign, known as the "hang loose", is a common gesture; it is also associated with the Brazilian jiu jitsu community internationally.^[1]

There are two textese glyphs for the shaka sign - \.../ and \, / - the first known use of both is in c. 2006.^[2]

Similar gestures[edit]

The sign can also be used to gesticulate the imbibing of a bottled drink, as attested to below, by placing the thumb to the mouth and motioning the little finger upward as if tipping up a bottle's bottom end.

With the thumb held near the ear and the little finger pointed at the mouth, the gesture is commonly understood to mean "call me", as it resembles a hand held telephone.

With the fingers facing forward, the same gesture is the letter Y in the American manual alphabet. See also ILY sign.

In the Caribbean, particularly the Lesser Antilles Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, it may be used to suggest a sexual exchange; for such, the thumb points to the gesturer and the little finger toward the subject of the proposition as the hand is moved forward and back.^{[citation needed]}

In China, this gesture means "6".

In Russia, this gesture with vertically oriented thumb and horizontally oriented little finger as if holding a beer mug is understood as an invitation to have a drink.

In Australia and New Zealand, raising the thumb to the mouth while pointing the pinky to the air is seen as invitation for one to smoke cannabis, the posture resembling the use of a pipe.

Origin[edit]

The shaka sign resembles the American Sign Language letter for Y.

According to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin,^[3] prevailing local lore credited the gesture to Hamana Kalili of Laie, who lost the three middle fingers of his right hand while working at the Kahuku Sugar Mill. Kalili was then shifted to guarding the sugar train, and his all-clear wave of thumb and pinkie is said to have evolved into the shaka as children imitated the gesture.^[4]

Another theory relates the origin of the shaka to the Spanish immigrants, who folded their middle fingers and took their thumbs to their lips as a friendly gesture to represent sharing a drink with the natives they met in Hawaii.^[5]