"Speed tribes." The Japanese version of motorcycle gangs. Un- or under-employed young men with fast bikes, who cause trouble and generally misbehave. Sometimes training grounds for future Yakuza. Bosozoku appear in the rather fluffy book Speed Tribes, the movie "Black Rain," and the comic book "Kabuki."

and yes, that's undoubtedly what the guys in Akira are based on.

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