Corner Bikes All Road @ 1Jyo

Stunning Corner Bikes All Road build shot at the ever wonderful 1Jyo Ultimate Factory in Osaka last week...

Follow Corner Bikes on Instagram for more if this kind of thing.

CORNER BIKES ”DISC ROAD"

Another stunning Corner Bikes build by the Movement boys...

See more on the Movement blog.

Corner Bikes Gravel Road @ 1Jyo Osaka

Stunning, utterly fucking stunning custom Corner Bikes build at 1Jyo Osaka...

See some much better photos on the 1Jyo Flickr.

Corner Bikes Dirt Tourer X Sim Works Fun3Bar

We've shot this bike before, that gorgeous Corner Bikes Dirt Tourer at 1Jyo Osaka has been through a few changes since then...

It's now rocking a pair of the rather nice Sim Works " Fun3 Bar"...

And that custom Cook Paintworks paintjob still looks stunning...

One of our favourite bikes in Osaka. Follow 1Jyo via their Instagram and Flickr accounts to see  custom more beauties like this.

Corner Bikes Monster Cross at Booon

Gorgeous custom Corner Bikes monstercross rig shot at last month's Booon event in Osaka...

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Corner Bikes 700C/650B Dirt Tourer

The super friendly staff at the wonderful 1Jyo Ultimate Factory were kind enough to pull this stunning Corner Bikes "Dirt Tourer" out for us to shoot last week...

The intricate Cook Paintworks paint job highlights and compliments the gorgeous Corner Bikes lug work...

King headset, like, obvs...

Sim Works cockpit...

King hubs, like, double obvs...

XT at the rear...

Add an R for the front...

Brooks & more lovely lugs...

The important Instagram links.... 1Jyo, Corner Bikes, Cook Paintworks.

Keisuke's Corner Bikes Jelly Bean Gravel Road

Some more photos of Keisuke-san's absolutely gorgeous custom Corner Bikes "Jelly Bean" Gravel Road shot at the Cycle Letters event in Osaka earlier this month...

Put together by the guys at 1Jyo with a Thomson/Chris King/Fizik cockpit...

Brooks & Thomson taking care of seating...

A very nice mix of Race Face and Rotor at the cranks...

But the thing that makes this bike so special is that Salsa homage paintjob by Cook Paintworks...

You can see lots more photos of this bike over on the 1Jyo Flickr. You can also follow Corner Bikes on Instagram for more of this type of thing.

Cycle Letters 4

The best fixed gear shop in the world.

A couple of weekends ago we joined up with Fixed-in-Nara and ventured out to Osaka, starting things off right with a coffee stop at the mighty Giracha...

Giracha Coffee

Suitably caffeinated we headed north, taking in a bit of street art on the way...

Art.

Naturally stopping to shoot some cool #LockedUpBikes...

Kuwahara 24" BMX cruiser.

It was a beautiful spring day and Osaka was being so Osaka...

Osaka Style.

Our destination was OVE who were hosting the fourth Cycle Letters exhibition...

OVE

An exhibition/event where local bike friendly companies and cyclists come together to show off new products and teach various cycling related things including cycling photography, leather work, printing and more...

Cycle Letters.

Local Osaka shop Palm Garage had a nice display of products...

Palm Garage

Including their very cute NJS chain key rings...

Palm Garage key rings.

And custom Kashimax saddles...

Kashimax

Brooks

Araya had some nice city bikes on display...

Araya Swallow.

Araya.

A gorgeous, Shiga made Macchi Cycles road bike was being used to show off the stunning Modoru Kikaku bike stands...

Macchi Cycles X Modoru Kikaku

Local accessories and parts brand Adept Works had some really nice bits of kit on their stand...

Adept Works Arclock

Adept Works

Adept Works skewers 6 clamps.

Corner Bikes were showing off Keisuke's stunning new CX bike, that Salsa homage paint job was done by the masters at Cook Paintworks...

Keisuke's custom Corner Bikes. 

Munieq had some cool little bits on show like these folding coffee drippers, perfect for that #CoffeeOutside ride...

Munieq coffee drippers

Moca were showing off some stylish leather products...

Moca

Obiviosly there was a fair bit of bike porn parked outside the venue...

Little and large EBS.

Vigore.

Cannondale.

Gorgeous vintage Misonoi.

One of our favourite bikes in Osaka, Takeshi-san's Surly Troll.

KHS.

A big thank you to Brad, Sayaka, Shouichi, Adept Works, Takeshi and everyone at the Cycle Letters event for what was a really fun and friendly bike centric event. There will be more bike photos from the day posted here soon.

Giracha Walnut Club