Kualis Road @ Hutte 8to8

A very nice custom Kualis road bike that was in the Hutte 8to8 workshop last week...

Kualis SSCX

Absolutely stunning Kualis single speed CX bike belonging to Nobuo Takao shot at the opening KNSCX race in Osaka...

Like all things Kualis, the details are beautiful, those cable stops for example..

Chiyo-chan approves...

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KNSCX Round 1 Osaka

Early start last Sunday, hooking up with the Chimon Family and F-i-N to head out to Osaka for the opening stage of the KNSCX season...

Dogs at cross!!

The race venue was the rather bleak industrial surroundings of Rinku Town...

Local CX legend Dave Hama recovered well after and early technical...

Hama time!

Switchbacks.

Barriers.

Mud.

The one they call the Street Viper was rullin' it out on the course...

The Viper.

Jump.

Some were taking it all rather seriously...

Rollin, rollin, rollin.

We shot a lot of bikes. Seriously, a LOT of bikes...

'Sonic.

As did F-i-N...

Getting that 'Gram.

Chiyo and Monica made some new friends...

Chiyo and Monica meet "Jack".

And caught up with some old ones, always good to see Andy and Toshio-san...

Dogs at cross 2!

Toshio managed to hide his disappointment at finishing 9th out of a field of 60 riders despite crashing and cutting his leg open!!...

How good does that Team Guell kit look?

A huge thank you to Mike, Yuka, Brad, Toshio and the whole Kansai Cyclocross crew. As usual we have a ton of photos from the day that will be posted here for infinity. It's basically gonna be 33c round here fore the foreseeable.

When Monica gives you that look it's time to stop shooting bikes and go home.

Kualis Goto ISP Ti Road

Another beauty from Kualis...



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Kualis Cycles build by Above Bike Store

Beautiful Kualis CX build by Starfuckers...



More.

KNSCX Kyoto-The Bikes

A run down of all the bikes photographed at last month's KNSCX final round in Kyoto...

Niner.

The Toyo Frame crew had some pretty damn fine bikes dotted around the course...

Toyo.

 Including a raw fixed gear frame with Nagasawa drop outs...

Toyo track drop outs.

Toyo Frame.

Toyo Frame.

Toyo Frame.

The Sim Works team showed up with a rather nice custom painted Surly...

Sim Works SS Surly.

 Spotted a gorgeous Shin Cycles just laying in the field...

Shin Custom Cycles.

 And it was a pleasure to meet local frame builder Tada, proudly displaying one of his creations...

Tada.

 Elsewhere around the course were a few beauties...

Anchor.

One by Esu.

Corner Bikes

This unidentified bamboo bike looked good before the race...

Bamboo CX .

And after, even when caked in mud...

Bamboo CX 2.

Naturally, this being Kyoto, there were a fair few Nakagawa bikes around...

Nakagawa 1.

Nakagawa 2.

And somewhere under all that mud there is a beautiful Kualis...

Kualis.

Panasonic.

Kinfolk.

Cowbofee.

Brodie.

Hunter.

Unknown carbon.

It's a CX race, there's always gonna be a bunch of Ridley bikes...

Ridley 1

Ridley 2

Ridley 3

Finally, something completely different. A spectator turned up on this very pimped Peco folder...

Pimped Peco

There will be a few more CX posts appearing here as we go through the tons of photos taken over the season.