Birds NFK Interview with Motoyan 1 of 5

Many of you readers out there may have seen pics posted by one of the Tokyo contributors named MotoYan.

Or perhaps you may have even seen pics of some wild eyed crazy guy tearing around Iowa and on to Wisconsin with Jeff and everyone at the S&S 50th all the while taking pictures of anything and everything.
You might have even seen a mention here or there to something called the NFK and wondered if that was the same group of guys that were shown blasting around in late night Tokyo traffic on the Jason Jesse movie: Pray for me.
And you MIGHT have even seen a bunch of fixed gear bicycle, and bike messenger or skating pictures if you followed a link, or happened across this mysterious MotoYan’s blog, or Flickr page.

So I’m sure many of you have questions that have been gnawing at your brain for some time about this character:
“Who is this guy really?”
“Is it true he is invincible?”
“What is up with this group of guys called the NFK?”
“Where did this rash come from and why does it burn when I pee?”
“And who would win in a fight between Spiderman and Wolverine?”

Well, I can’t help you with those last two, but maybe I can shed some light on the MotoYan and NFK mystery.

I had a chat with Yan about himself, and the No Future Krew or NFK as they are usually referred to as and this is what he had to say:

Bird:

So Yan, I first became aware of you and the No Future Krew when you emailed me one day about my old ratty XS650 chopper and we immediately became friends. I think that was about 4 years ago… and you guys were together before that. When is it that you guys first began riding together?

 
Yan:

Yeah, that's right. I was really shocked when I saw you and your chopper drifting in the dirt. I saw you on the Bad Motorcycles for Bad People forum.
At the same time, I was managing a BBS called "NO FUTURE" where many people talked about choppers and every time I saw some cool chopper pics, I posted them on that board.
Some of the people on there really liked what I was posting on the board, and they began to stay and talk together.
And then, in June of 2003, we said “Why don’t we ride together on Thursday night".
And that was the beginning of the NFK.

 
Bird:

Right on, is the NFK a gang, a club, or something else?
 

Yan:

I don't know. We are just friends. No regulation, no rules, nothing.

Bird:

How many members are there in the NFK?

 
Yan:

About 15. May be more. I don't know.

Bird:  

Is there a particular kind of motorcycle that the NFK members must ride, or prefer to ride?

Yan:

No. But right now, some of guys have started selling their Harleys.
Joytoy sold his chopper and got an old Buell RSS.
H sold his Twincam and got a new Triumph Bonneville café racer.
Disk sold his FXR and he might buy a Gixxer.
I sold my FXR and got GS1200SS.
Yudai will be selling his shovelhead pretty soon. 
Some of the members don’t even own a motorcycle. They ride fixed gear bicycles.