Nakagawa Road @ Miyazaki Cycle

Very nice Nakagawa road bike up for grabs at Miyazaki Cycle...

Swoop it here.

Giracha Showroom

A bunch of shots taken at the utterly amazing Giracha showroom a few weeks back. Located just a few doors down from the Giracha Coffee shop in the original GiraGira location, this little room is a treasure trove of all things fixed, track and vintage...

Let's start with the stunning bikes on display...

Tiemeyer.

Tiemeyer 2. 

A very special Nagasawa.

Vintage 1930's Hetchens.

National/Panasonic.

A Samson behind a T19 X How I Roll "Minium".

And then there are the frames. They are everywhere and each one is stunning...

Nakagawa.

Rare Nagasawa with OS down tubing.

Verwin.

Marinoni.

Zunow.

Nagasawa fleet.

Too many to list!

When it comes to parts it doesn't get any more high end or beautiful than this...

Parts cabinet.

Caps & saddles.

Campy crank porn.

Shimano crank porn.

Even more crank porn!

Araya.

Bicycle jewelry.

An absolutely incredible place. Fixed gear Nirvana! A huge thank you to Giracha mechanic Hideaki for taking the time to show us and the IPA Crew this amazing room. Keep up with all the Giracha happenings by following the Instagrams of store managers Sayaka & Rene, the official Giracha page and the Giracha Walnut Club for the posh bits. Needless to say, if you are in Osaka, or Japan or Asia then go to GiraGira. It is the best fixed gear & track bike shop in the world. If you can't get there then there is always their Track Supermarket webshop.

Caps.

Nakagawa Roadie

Classy, custom Nakagawa roadbike shot by F-i-N in Osaka last week...

Nice bike, nice pics. Follow F-i-N's Instagram for more of this kind of thing.

Custom Nakagawa

A few shots of a gorgeous customer's Nakagawa road bike shot a few weeks back outside 1Jyo in Osaka. Forgive the shitty photos, they were shot on the phone in a darkened doorway on a bright sunny day...

What the photos lack in quality the bike more than makes up for, a very nice mix of custom parts including a Selle SMP X-Ray saddle atop of a Thomson post...

Down at the drive it's equally as nice with Dura Ace/Nakagawa cranks...

And a Dura Ace mech. Just check that cable stop...

All rolling on a pair of Campag Scirocco wheels...

Classy. Real classy.

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.