The most prestigious custom event in Japan is the Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show, better known as Mooneyes. If you pick up a trophy there, it means you’re at the top of your game. And at the most recent show, the top award went to Takuya Aikawa of Sureshot for this skinny Dyna Low Rider.
This is not the first time Aikawa has enjoyed a short walk and a handshake at Mooneyes. He took out the ‘Best of Show’ award in 2019 with a 1968 Shovelhead—a very different build to this 1997 FXDL.
Aikawa has been running Sureshot since 2003, and is based in Chiba, just to the east of downtown Tokyo.
“Slender and skinny customs are the style of my shop,” he tells us.…