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I think the bikes are related to the Japanese Dekotora trucks.
http://toobstar.wordpress.com/2006/11/22/tricked-out-dekotora-japanese-trucks/
It seems to me like the bikes are owned by kids who want to be bousouzoku. Or they’re too poor to buy a motorcycle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%8Ds%C5%8Dzoku
I think my intuition is correct. They’re called Dekochari and they were a direct response to the Dekotora truck craze.
Bousouzoku tend to be scarier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekochari
I think they are robots.