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Masahiro 's All City Single Speed

Finally some original content! Things here have been somewhat strange recently, injured cats, personal mental instabilities, Instagram distractions and general laziness meaning the blog had got a little neglected as of late. Let's try to put things right with a few shots of local legend Masahiro's way fucking cool All City single speed shot during last month's majorly fun #AllCityJapan night ride in Kyoto...

Here is the man himself effortlessly riding up the steps of one of Kyoto's landmarks, some temple or shrine or whatever, it's Kyoto it was dark who fucking knows where this was?

Custom Surly CC At 1Jyo

A very sweet raw steel Surly Cross Check shot at the always amazing 1Jyo Ultimate Factory in Osaka last week...

Those are Bruce Gordon canti brakes...

And Kuwahara hubs...

Check out the 1Jyo Flickr page to see more builds like this.

Bicycle Maru New Year Ride

A few shots from last Tuesday's Bicycle Maru New Year Ride. Maru was riding his very nice Salsa Marrakesh...

Now with added Bruce Gordon Rock n'Road goodness...

Takao-san had brought his beastly Blackborrow, this was going to be an off road adventure...

The destination was Yadayama Park a short but fairly constant climb. The sound of a fleet of fatbikes rolling along the quiet Nara morning roads is something to be heard...

Stopping on the way to meet up with Nuho-san who was keen to try out Takao's monster Salsa...

And Maru's demo bike...

Nuho had brought along his very nice Monk...

 Up at the park we hooked up with Mike and Larry who had taken the sensible road way up...

There was more bike swapping action and then Maru and the crew took off further into the mountains. We took the easy descent down into Tomio with Mike and Larry for coffee, there's only so much cold, wet slippy off roading we can take these days!

A big thanks as always to Maru and the Nara crew for a fun and very tiring first ride of the year.

SURLY Straggler Flat

1Jyo killin' it with the custom Surlys right now. More here

*SURLY* straggler

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*ALL-CITY* space horse disc

A ton of custom builds just went up on the Blue Lug Flickr including this little #PartyBrand beauty...



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Abukuma at the Handmade Bicycle Show

There were a lot of beautiful bikes at the recent Handmade Bicycle Show over in Tokyo and this stunning Abukuma CX/All Road/Road+/Gravel Grinding/Tourer was a stand out for us...

Image from here.

You can get a rundown of the other bikes the show over on the excellent Positivo Espresso blog, cheers to our good buddy Adam Bell for sharing that link.

Custom Surly Straggler @ Grumpy Bike

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SURLY* cross-check complete bike

Another bunch of beautiful builds have just gone up on the Blue Lug Flickr including this rather tasty Surly three speed Cross Check...

SURLY * CROSS-CHECK カスタム事例

Beautiful custom single speed build on a Surly Cross Check by Shiokaze Store...

See more on the Shiokaze Store blog.

Cielo Rigid MTB

Serious bikepacking rig from Sim Works...



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Bike-Packing With Movement...

The Movement boys are looking for adventure...

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SURLY CROSS-CHECK CUSTOM PAINT BY SWAMP THINGS

Starfuckers and Swamp Things working their magic on a Surly Cross Check....

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