Saturday Osaka Rollin'

Bridge.

A boredom busting trip to Osaka last Saturday. First stop the ever wonderful Nakazaki Eights...

Eights.

...To hook up with the IPA Crew...

Andrew's 'Sonic.

Hiroshi's Makino.

Taku's M Idea.

A chance to shoot some bikes...

Fairdale Taj.

Fairdale custom by Eights.

Then a dusk ride through the city, passing some landmarks on the way...

Sky Building.

A pit stop for the IPA Crew at the piss takingly expensive Craft Beer Base...

Dismount in style.

The Crew, loaded with beers and lighter of cash.

Back out onto the streets...

Stopped.

Shooting more bikes at Brotures...

Brotures bikes.

Leader roadbike at Brotures.

Leader, Leader, Leader etc.

Finishing with a coffee and a few more bike shots at Giracha...

Rene's very cool, very rare Cinelli CMX (more shots here soon!)

Giracha custom 'Sonic.

A very enjoyable way to spend an afternoon! Cheers to Andrew, Hiroshi and Taku.

Trackstands for days (and nights).

All City Cycles Osaka Nightride

All City Cycles are in Japan on tour! On Tuesday they had a night ride through Osaka, we went along and took our usual blurry night ride shots...

Party Brand overload at 1Jyo

Hooking up with the IPA Crew for a quick coffee at Nakazaki Eights...

Sonic X Cappuccino. 

 Before meeting up with the Motocross International & All City crews for the ride...

The meet up.

 Starting off heading downtown...

Track stands for days.

Through the Christmas lights...

Neon lights, shimmering neon lights.

Andrew, still standing.

Rolling into Dotonbori.

Macho Man meets Glico Man.

F-i-N at the crossing, waiting to sell his soul!

A few photo opportunities in Tenno-ji...

BAAW!

Art.

A real photographer.

 The essential combini stop...

Combini life.

Parking.

 And back out on the streets...

Waiting.

Rolling into Shitenno-ji.

Corner boys.

Just before the hill climb sprinting began, check out Masahiro's knowing smile.

Ending the night with beer and pizza...

F-i-N takes his whiskey very seriously.

A truly amazing night. A huge thank you to Brad, Andrew, Nate and Jeff from All City, The Motocross International crew, Masahiro for his navigation and guidance, the Toyo Frame crew, Spark Scone & Bicycle, Yoko, Taigood, Takeshi, Kenhi81 for planning the very cool route and everyone who came out for what was a fantastic night of riding. 

Sunday In Osaka

Alley cats.

Out in Osaka last Sunday with F-i-N & Andrew. Starting out in Tsuruhashi and a ride through Korean Town...

Behind that glass is a Terminator holding kimchi. Because it's Korea Town.

Heading for the Cycle Picnic event...

Cycle Picnic.

Lots to do and see with local and international bike companies showing off their wares...

Cycle Picnic 2.

Palm Garage

Kashimax

Cycle Picnic 3.

Then a ride downtown...

Downtown.

Heading for Horie and the "South" part of the picnic event where Corner Bikes were showing off their beautiful builds...

Corner Bikes roadbike

Tubes & Drop Outs.

Corner Bikes CX bike.

Vintage Claud Butler.

After that, because we hadn't seen quite enough bikes yet, a quick tour around some downtown bike shops. Starting with a quick stop at Tokyo Wheels...

Tokyo Wheels

Then on to 1Jyo...

Salsa Vaya.

Surly.

And stopping in at Velo Life Unpeu...

Crazy Sheep mini velo.

Crazy Sheep MTB (& F-i-N being offensive)

EBS mini velo

Snapping a very expensive coffin on the way back to Namba station...

Surly X Penis Extension.

We have tons more photos from the day, seriously tons. They'll be milked out here for content over the coming weeks. Cheers as always to Brad, Andrew and all the cool people at the Cycle Picnic.