Last weekend saw the
Cycle Mode Ride event take place in the
Expo Park 70 in Osaka...
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| The venue. |
The premise of the show being that people could test ride all the bikes on offer. A great idea for the punters in the endless queues, a really shite idea for those of us there to photograph the bikes...
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| The endless queues. |
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| Bicycle nerds everywhere! |
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| Cycle insurance. |
Nevertheless we did the best we could, trying to seek out the Japanese and interesting bikes amongst the sea of carbon roadies...
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| Shimano. |
Naturally Shimano were there, sadly no word as yet on that
new Dura Ace kit...
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| XT, |
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| Tiagra. |
One of the real draws was the
Cherubim stand who were showing off some their beautiful creations...
Elsewhere there were lots of high end road bikes from the likes of
Pinarello...
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| Wiggo's bike. |
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| Dogma. |
Cycle Base Asahi had a huge display showing off some of their budget custom city bikes...
Boma Bikes had a decent selection of their high end roadies on show...
You couldn't have a bike show in Osaka without
Panasonic...
Campag had a huge stand with their own branded demo bikes...
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| Campag demo bike. |
The standout booth for us was
Grand Bois, locally made beautiful touring bicycles from Kyoto...
Tucked away inside their booth was this beautiful vintage tourer made by the legendary Nara frame builder Iribe...
A couple of demo Colnago bikes on the
Woodman Components stand...
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| Colnago x Woodman. |
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| Colnago x Woodman. |
Anchor had a pretty big stand, sadly most of their bikes were being test ridden every time we stopped by...
It wasn't all drop bars and skinny tyres, there were some wonderful and some downright weird creations dotted around the site...
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| Banana seat. |
And now for something completely different.
The Stringbike...
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| Campag wheels. |
The
Tri Sports stand had some good displays of all their imported goodies...
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| USE. |
There will be other photos from the day posted here soon including more from Cherubim and Grand Bois.
