2018 Rapha Super Cross Nobeyama day1 Women ダイジェスト

2018 Rapha Super Cross Nobeyama day1 Elite Men ダイジェスト

Rapha Prestige Shinshiro

Rapha Prestige Shinshiro from masato on Vimeo.

Rapha Roadside | Episode 08 The Photographer

Rapha Roadside | Episode 08 The Photographer from RAPHA on Vimeo.

Custom Giant ATB

A very, very cool custom Giant CX/Gravel Grinder/Dirt Drop/ATB that showed up during last weekend's #RaphaRidesOsaka events...

Rapha RIDES Osaka

Rapha RIDES Osaka from RAPHA on Vimeo.

Rapha Festive500 2016 “River”

Rapha Festive500 2016 "River" from Toshiki Sato on Vimeo.

16-17 JCX#7 : Rapha Super Cross Nobeyama Day2 (UCI-C2)

16-17 JCX#7 : Rapha Super Cross Nobeyama Day2 (UCI-C2) from Pigmon Channel on Vimeo.

Rapha Prestige Niseko

Rapha Prestige Niseko from RAPHA on Vimeo.

Rapha Travel Japan Randonnee

Rapha Travel Japan Randonnee from RAPHA on Vimeo.

2015 Rapha Super Cross Nobeyama 野辺山 Day１ CL ダイジェスト

Rapha SUPER CROSS NOBEYAMA2015 爆笑 シングルスピードクラス

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.

Rapha SUPER CROSS NOBEYAMA2015 DAY1 UCI Elite Men & Women

There's a little CX meeting taking place this weekend...

Nichitsu Redux

Tour Of Japan 2015, Sakai, Osaka

ToJ merchandise.

Last Sunday we hooked up with F-i-N to head down to Sakai, Osaka for the first stage of the 18th Tour Of Japan. We rode down from Tennoji station at midday, on the hottest day of the year so far. Fun, fun, fun...

F-i-N in the distance.

A little cruise down the Yamato river on the way...

And we made it to Sakai...

Spot the birdie.

 As expected, there were bikes everywhere...

Bicycle parking is not a crime.

 The backstage/pits area were buzzing...

 The Rapha boys were there...

"Glory Through Suffering"

 The occasional pro rode past...

 And the teams were in their pits getting ready for the time trial...

 Out on the course the riders were going round one by one...

Once all the exciting time trail "action" was over we headed into the wonderful Shimano Bicycle Museum ...

A quick pit stop at Cycle Station Speed on the ride back into Tennoji...

 And a final combini stop...

A great day. We have many, many more photos to post from the bike museum and of all the bikes we shot, they'll be posted here soon. Thanks to Fixed-in-Nara for his navigational skills on the day. Check out the F-i-N Instagram for more pictures from the day's action.