Kissi's Kuwahara 100th Anniversary Edition BMX

A few shots of Kissi's awesome custom Kuwahara 100th year anniversary limited edition BMX at Giracha, Osaka. Shop mechanic and old school BMX expert Lettuce did and amazing job with a selection of old and new parts for the build...

Nitto bars...

Ame grips...

Vintage Nitto layback seat post...

See some much better shots over on Lettuce's Instagram.

KUWAHARA Gaap Street（1ST. LOT）

Image from here. View more here.

TKC Productions Custom OS Kuwahara MTB

Fucking LOVE this bike! Image from here.

Cal's Kuwahara BMX @Giracha

Four quick shots of young Cal's extremely cool vintage Kuwahara BMX at the ever fabulous Giracha...

Kuwahara Lachesis Omega Race BMX

Image from here, also get following the new Kuwahara Bike Works Instagram account.

Rene's Kuwahara Kikuichi MTB

Now this is rather special. A little backstory, a few years ago Takashi-san from Kuwahara got Rene at Giracha a Kikuichi 26" frame. Rene took his time building it up with a stunning selection of modern parts that kept an old school MTB aesthetic. Having been busy with work and family life, Rene didn't have much time to actually ride the bike. Recently Kenji-san from Ballooner & Crazy Sheep has been taking Rene out on the local trails. Last week the bike was at Giracha, obviously I took a ton a photos...

That Nitto cockpit...

TMG13 FLV saddle...

Race Face cranks and FLV pedals...

XTR drive...

And brakes...

Phil Wood hubs laced to H Plus rims...

An utterly stunning bike. Cheers to Rene and Sayaca for letting me shoot it.

Vintage Kuwahara Marten

See more over on the ever excellent Cycle Exif.

Custom Surly CC At 1Jyo

A very sweet raw steel Surly Cross Check shot at the always amazing 1Jyo Ultimate Factory in Osaka last week...

Those are Bruce Gordon canti brakes...

And Kuwahara hubs...

Check out the 1Jyo Flickr page to see more builds like this.

Ballooner Bikes Pop Up Shop @ Ponygoround

Three quick shots from the very cool current Ballooner Bikes pop up shop at Ponygoround Osaka...

A fabulous display of some of Kenji-san's collection from his BMX and MTB racing career...

The pop up shop runs until next Tuesday (27th) so if you're in the area go down and check it out. A big thank you to Sayaka for showing me the shop.

Vintage Kuwahara MTB @ Booon

This vintage Kuwahara MTB was one of the coolest bikes spotted at last weekend's Booon event in Osaka...

Pretty much all original parts apart from the suspension seat post and saddle...

Internal routing and a gorgeous paint job...

The lady that owned this bike actually took it to show Kuwahara-san who helped her get in serviced by the on site mechanic!

As usual we have a ton of photos from both days of the Booon event. Stay tuned.

Kuwahara Panther

Image from here.

Daisy Messenger, Nagoya

Daisy Messenger

A bunch of photos taken at the brilliant Daisy Messenger in Nagoya earlier this month...

Racks.

Daisy Messenger is a bicycle courier service, a bicycle workshop, a screen printing t-shirt shop, a mobile cycle repair service and a very cool place to hang out...

Chari.

Porteur.

Sign.

The mobile cycle repairs are carried out using this very nice Hunter Cycles workbike...

Hunter Cycles 1.

Hunter Cycles 2.

Hunter Cycles 3.

Inside the store is a well equipped and busy workshop...

Tool Board.

A ridiculously cool sound system and record collection...

Sounds.

A gold mine of bikes hang from the rafters...

Frame Porn.

Tyres.

All around there are some super cool frames and bikes...

Kuwahara BMX.

Vicious Cycles.

Kona Humuhumu

A superb shop/workshop/service, well worth a visit. A big thank you to Sal-san for taking time to chat with us and letting us take all these photos. You can follow Daisy Messenger via their Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Blog pages.

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