Kohei's Low Track

A few shots of Grid-Kyoto messenger Kohei's very cool custom Low Bicycles track bike taken outside Cycle Garden last month...

Sugino 75 cranks with an Aarn chainring...

Front and rear Dura Ace hubs...

Ritchey cockpit...

And Enve forks...

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Morning Ride

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Kyoto Cruisin'

Kyoto scene 1.

Rolling through a hot and steamy Kyoto yesterday afternoon with F-i-N...

F-i-N shooting.

The first port of call was the newly opened Velo Stand Kyoto, an E.B.S showroom...

Velo Stand Kyoto

Then heading north through the quiet backstreets...

Brad, on point.

Up to the wonderful Grand Bois shop...

Riders in Rapha shooting Randonneurs. 

Followed by a cruise back downtown...

Parked.

And a stop at the super cool Achieve store...

Achieve Kyoto

I.L.E bags at Achieve

And then a ride across the river to the ever wonderful Cycle Garden where there is always a huge amount of bike porn to shoot...

Custom Cinelli.

Low Bicycles.

Spur Cycle 

Finally, a dusk ride back down to the tower...

Kyoto Scene 2.

There will be more shots and details from Velo Stand Kyoto posted here during the week. Cheers, as always to Fixed in Nara and a personal thank you to the guys at Cycle Garden for sorting out my light bracket, on the spot, free of charge. Seriously people, go buy things at Cycle Garden!

Chrome Industries 20th Anniversary Party

Combini stop to start the night right.

Last Friday we hooked up with Mike and F-i-N for a night ride in Osaka. Stopping off first at the Rapha store because they were having a black Friday sale and F-i-N is so roadie...

Rapha Osaka

Then it was on to Pine Brooklyn where Chrome Industries were having a 20th anniversary party...

Pine Brooklyn

A bunch of very cool bikes were racked up outside in the bicycle parking...

Of course there's a Cinelli Mash in there.

Locked up bikes.

Very, very cool bikes...

Seriously high end Low roadie

Inside Chrome had taken over the venue for a party and an exhibition...

Chrome 20 years

Chrome merch.

In collaboration with Hidden Champion magazine and a bunch of Japanese artists who each customised a Chrome Yalta backpack...

Zenone

GWG Inc

Inoue Jun

Ly

Koichiro Takagi

Mao Simmons

Masagon

Sense

Sheta

Toshikazu Nozaka

Benicotoy

Ami Odawara

End

Esow

Skaters in the area.

Some of the guests were clearly enjoying the free bar...

Mike & F-i-N

By then it was time to head back to quiet little Nara. Cheers to Mike and Brad and the whole Chrome Japan crew for a very fun and very cool night.

Back in sleepy Nara.