Yesterday

Day one. Kasuga Cup. GIII. Nara Keirin. Ten photos. No filters....

   

Pacer's Anchor

A very nice Anchor sitting in the sun at Nara Keirin last week...

KNSCX Kyoto-The Bikes

A run down of all the bikes photographed at last month's KNSCX final round in Kyoto...

Niner.

The Toyo Frame crew had some pretty damn fine bikes dotted around the course...

Toyo.

 Including a raw fixed gear frame with Nagasawa drop outs...

Toyo track drop outs.

Toyo Frame.

Toyo Frame.

Toyo Frame.

The Sim Works team showed up with a rather nice custom painted Surly...

Sim Works SS Surly.

 Spotted a gorgeous Shin Cycles just laying in the field...

Shin Custom Cycles.

 And it was a pleasure to meet local frame builder Tada, proudly displaying one of his creations...

Tada.

 Elsewhere around the course were a few beauties...

Anchor.

One by Esu.

Corner Bikes

This unidentified bamboo bike looked good before the race...

Bamboo CX .

And after, even when caked in mud...

Bamboo CX 2.

Naturally, this being Kyoto, there were a fair few Nakagawa bikes around...

Nakagawa 1.

Nakagawa 2.

And somewhere under all that mud there is a beautiful Kualis...

Kualis.

Panasonic.

Kinfolk.

Cowbofee.

Brodie.

Hunter.

Unknown carbon.

It's a CX race, there's always gonna be a bunch of Ridley bikes...

Ridley 1

Ridley 2

Ridley 3

Finally, something completely different. A spectator turned up on this very pimped Peco folder...

Pimped Peco

There will be a few more CX posts appearing here as we go through the tons of photos taken over the season. 

Pacer's Anchor

Rather nice Anchor pacer's  bike we shot at Nara Keirin yesterday...

Standard NJS build, Dura Ace hubs...

Nitto cockpit...

And a lovely bit of "beausage" on the saddle...

Japanese Bikes @ KNSCX

A round up of some of the Japanese bikes we saw at last week's Kansai Cyclocross at Lake Biwa. Toyo frame were well represented with their own stand showing off some of Japanese CX champion, Yu Takenouchi's beautiful bikes...

There were also some damn nice Toyo's amongst the rider's bikes...

Quite a few Panasonics about too...

A few Testach bikes...

A couple of Anchor's...

Naturally there were Nakagawa's, this was KNSCX after all...

Two Tada cycles...

A pair of Extar Proton's...

One of many Boma Bikes seen on the day...

This stunner is a Rew10 Works creation,

Kinfolk...

This curiosity is a Cowbofee...

A lovely Corner Bike belonging to Ippe (Peu2)...

A cool Kualis...

And a spectator showed up on this ridiculously beautiful, locally made Macchi Cycles road bike...

We still have a backlog of photos from the day to post, all the other bikes, more race shots etc. They'll be up here at some point this month.