{"product_id":"nayna-guepardo-camiseta-juvenil-de-impresion-integral","title":"Nayna · Cheetah · Youth t-shirt","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-short-desc\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNayna rebuilt her first motorcycle on the sidewalk, at night, with a flashlight between her teeth. This youth full-print t-shirt carries her portrait — cheetah, mechanic, Nairobi — across the whole surface. For everyday wear, the street, for whoever doesn't need it explained why they like what they like.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- LONG_DESC --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Nayna youth t-shirt carries her portrait printed across the entire surface: sleeves, front, back. It's not a print centered on the chest. It's a full print that covers the whole garment with the image of a cheetah wearing a black leather biker jacket, a red polka-dot bandana at the neck, and a crown of fresh red flowers on her head. Direct eyes, no calculated charm. A Nairobi motorcycle mechanic who knows exactly what she's looking at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## Eight thousand shillings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEight thousand Kenyan shillings. That's what Nayna paid for a 2008 Honda CB125 that was more dead than alive. Bent frame, blown engine, tank pitted with corrosion. It was sold to her by a boda-boda rider called Ochieng — a motorcycle taxi driver — who didn't know what to do with it anymore. Eight thousand shillings was everything Nayna had at that moment. She was twenty. She'd been repairing bikes on the sidewalk for months, without a workshop, without a space, with four wrenches and a screwdriver. The boda-boda drivers in the area paid her in cash, sometimes in kind: a helmet, half a tank of gas, a plate of food.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe didn't always eat every day. But every night she wrote down what she'd earned in a squared notebook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe CB125 was a bet she had no right to make. But Nayna doesn't think in terms of right. She thinks in terms of: can this be fixed or not. And that bike could be fixed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe rebuilt it in two months. At night, on the sidewalk, with a flashlight clamped between her teeth because she had no lamp, no power, no covered place to work. She disassembled parts, cleaned them, checked them under the white beam of the flashlight while matatus roared past kicking up dust behind her. When it was done — when she turned the key and the engine started clean for the first time — it was the first time she heard herself make a sound she didn't know she made. A low hum, almost a purr, rising from her chest. Mwangi, her current apprentice, calls it \"Nayna's engine.\" She doesn't know he calls it that. Or she knows and says nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe sold the CB125. With the money from that one and the second rebuilt bike, she bought two things: more tools and a leather jacket at Gikomba, Nairobi's secondhand market. A black biker, diagonal zip, slightly large. She altered it herself. She hasn't taken it off since. There's a tear in the inner lining, on the left side, that's been there for two years. She knows how to sew leather. She hasn't fixed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## On the street\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat story — the bike, the sidewalk, the flashlight — isn't an ornament. It's the core of what you see in the portrait. Nayna looks like someone who has had to solve problems without help, without a safety net, without anyone telling her whether she was doing it right. Who learned by watching, worked with her hands, and built her own workshop by not giving up and keeping her accounts in a notebook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow she's twenty-five and has a workshop on Lunga Lunga Road, South B's industrial zone, Nairobi. It's called NAYNA MOTORS. She fixes eight to twelve bikes a week, mostly boda-boda that break the way anything breaks when it works fourteen hours a day. And every two or three months something better comes along: an old bike to restore, a crash bike she buys at auction. Those projects she works on at the end of the day, when the light is still coming through the door but the customers have left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the back of the workshop she has a 1985 Yamaha SR400 she bought at auction. Blown engine, incredible chrome underneath the grime. It's been dismantled for eight months, every part cleaned and photographed. She's in no hurry. It's not for sale. It's the first bike she's restoring just for herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe t-shirt works because the portrait has weight. It's not a mascot or a generic illustration: it's someone with a story, with a workshop, with a routine, and with a cat sleeping on the bench rags. If you're drawn to another character with that same contained intensity, [Nala](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/nala\/) shares something of that register. If you want to know more about how Nayna got to where she is, the [full biography](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/nayna\/) tells everything — from Athi River to the flowers she buys every morning at Wakulima market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor exact sizes and measurements, check **Size guide**. Fabric and construction are detailed in **Fabric, fit and construction**. 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