Street Viper's Giant Bikes Speeder X Commuter

Met up with local legend Street Viper yesterday for a cruise with Chris around Kyoto. Now The Viper has a lot of bikes, yesterday he was riding his very cool vintage Giant Bikes commuter/townie. Whilst parked up at Wanderers Coffee Stand we grabbed a few shots...

The bike just oozes class. Shellacked handlebar grips...

Leather saddle bag...

Dynamo lighting...

Custom Giant ATB

A very, very cool custom Giant CX/Gravel Grinder/Dirt Drop/ATB that showed up during last weekend's #RaphaRidesOsaka events...

Nico’s Giant ATX840

More here.

F-i-N's Giant TCR

A few shots of F-i-N's rarely seen custom Giant TCR roadbike...

Looking especially sweet with a new pair of Grand Bois tyres...

Rolling on a Rolf Prima Vigor wheelset...

And rocking a new Thomson stem...

One of the nicest roadbikes in town, follow F-i-N on Instagram to see the bike in action.

FiN After Dark

More beautiful photography of Nara by night over on Fixed-in-Nara...

Follow F-i-N on Instagram and Twitter for more of this kind of Nara/Cycling/Stunning Photography thing.

Reincarnation

A very nicely done restoration on an old Giant road bike by Movement. Powder coated by Kyutai Paint and built up as a dual speed city bike...

See more of this little beauty over on the Movement blog.

F-i-N Rides Yoshino

Beautiful photography from the southern Nara countryside over on Fixed In Nara

The Bikes @ KNSCX Round 10

A round up of all the bikes shot at the Sakai leg of KNSCX earlier this month. Kicking things off with some of the locally made Japanese bikes...

Nakagawa.

Nakagawa 2.

Nakagawa 3.

Macchi Cycles.

Kualis.

Extar Proton.

Mudman.

Steel Era.

It wasn't all drop bars and 32c's...

Rival Racing.

Focus MTB.

Moots.

Signal belonging to one of the Hutte crew.

There were some seriously nice single speeds around too...

All City.

All City

Including this stunning Falconer...

Falconer

And this very cool Felt belonging to our new friend Kim-san...

Felt.

Trek.

Always nice to see a bit of Surly action...

Cross Check

Straggler.

Giant.

Koga.

We still have a few more photos from the day including some detailed bike shots. They will be posted here at some point during the forthcoming weeks.

Ridley.

Euro Works La.Sista, Kizugawa, Kyoto

A few photos from last Sunday's ride out to the superb Euro Works La.Sista store in Kizu, Kyoto prefecture. The bright, spacious shop stocks a range of road, cross and mountain bikes along with a good selection of parts and accessories...

MTB's from brands including Commencal, Scott and Cannondale...

And road and cx bikes from the likes of Colnago, Fuji and Author...

A friendly, welcoming and well stocked shop. Worth checking out if you are in the area. You can follow Euro Works via their Twitter and Facebook pages.