Imperfect Things: Repair, Maintenance and Chopper Motorcycles is an online visual essay which explores ways we might foster more meaningful and mutual relationships with the objects in our lives. Imperfect Things examines the social creativity of the global chopper motorcycle community, and communicates what the shared practices and understandings of this community might teach us about transitioning to more sustainable futures. The visual essay is a condensed version of a longer essay of the same name which seeks to provide a tangible example of what Transition Design theorist Cameron Tonkinwise calls the "imperfect product". A chopper motorcycle is the antithesis of modern notions of perfect, sleek consumer products. A rider’s relationship with a chopper is not made through a purchase, it is a relationship made through an active and continual process of maintenance that acknowledges its impermanence.