Panasonic Track @ Giracha

This gorgeous Panasonic NJS track has been through a few incarnations whilst on display at the fabulous Giracha in Osaka. This latest one with the Mavic carbon wheelset has to be the coolest yet...

See more pictures over on the Giracha mechanic, "Lettuce's" Instagram.

And follow the Giracha Walnut Club for all the serious bikeporn builds that come out of Giracha.

Kuwahara 24 @ IDE Store

Image from here and here.

Nobuhiko's Vintage Araya Muddy Fox

A few pictures of Nobuhiko's awesomely cool Araya Muddy Fox MTB. When we last shot this bike it was nighttime and the pictures were kinda shit. Earlier this week we finally got to shoot it in the daylight...

We say cool and coolest a lot here but this really is one of the coolest bikes we've seen. That original camo paintjob, the mix of old and new parts...

A Kashimax on a layback post bringing the old school BMX vibes...

That Nitto cockpit, the bosco style bars, the toploader BMX stem, that fucking Suntour stickshift!!!!

And the massive amounts of #basketlyfe vibes going on here just add to the overall levels of cool...

Thanks to the ever amazing Sayaca who helped me put a name to this wonderful bike. 

Pink Panasonic

Rather classy bright pink Panasonic road bike that brightened up a wet weekday afternoon in Osaka last Tuesday...

Ian's Bomber Pro Trackbike

Local Osaka legend Ian has a fleet of beautiful bikes. He recently had a stunning Nagasawa road bike built up at Giracha. On last Sunday's morning ride he was riding his rather cool Bomber Pro track bike and we grabbed a few shots...

Perfect cockpit for city cruising with risers and the essential bell...

Kashimax saddle of course...

Here's the man himself in action, I think he's trying to say that this is just one of his bikes...

THE KATANA PROJECT: Stash X Nagasawa

The Stash X Nagasawa offering at last month's The Katana Project launch at Kashimax in Osaka...

THE KATANA PROJECT: Futura X Nagasawa

So here it is, the first Futura X Nagasawa bike for the THE KATANA PROJECT  shot at the launch party at Kashimax last Saturday...

Now go check Fixed In Nara's fabulous report of the event.

THE KATANA PROJECT: Look Ma No Brakes II

So this might take some explaining. Last Friday night Sayaca messaged me to tell me about an event happening on Saturday at the Kashimax workshop in south Osaka. THE KATANA PROJECT: Look Ma No Brakes II is a collaboration between some very legendary people, basically Nagasawa-san builds the frames, Kashima-san makes the saddles and artists Stash, Rcade and Futura do their thing decorating them. Fixed In Nara and I headed south on Saturday afternoon...

Party time.

The bikes are stunning...

Stash

Rcade

Futura

Watching Futura live paint was possibly the coolest thing that's ever happened...

Master...

At...

Work.

Oh yeah, Mr Nagasawa was there too...

Local legends. F-i-N, Nagasawa-san and Principedal.

Seeing him check over F-i-N's bike was a very special moment...

Inspection by the master.

Having Koichi Nakano's bike there just added to the insanely cool day...

Nagasawa X Rcade

OK, so many people to thank. Firstly Nadir the man who put all of this together and made everyone feel welcome. Kashima-san one of the nicest guys in the business. Sayaca, Rene, Tsutsumi, Taira and all the Giracha crew and everyone else who made this such a special, cool day.

Nagasawa x Kashimax.

Obviously we have a fuckton more photos from the day that will be posted here and on Instagram in the coming days, weeks, moths etc.

Nagasawa Special @ Giracha

A few shots of a very special, very cool Nagasawa track bike at Giracha, Osaka. This was the first frame that Nagasawa-san built for Giracha according to their custom specifications. It's been through many build ups over the years and now sits in the new Giracha Walnut Club space in the shop. It really is the bike of dreams for all you fixed heads...

Kashimax in the house...

When we dropped back into the shop a few days later the bike was rocking a set of Dura Ace carbon disc wheels. Because it's Giracha and they can do that kind of thing...

The. Best. Fixed. Gear. Bike. Shop. In. The. World.

Follow the following, Giracha Walnut Club, Track Supermarket, Sayaka-san, Rene Giracha, Tsutsumi-san and don't forget they serve some damn fine coffee too.