Like A Boss

Huge congratulations to the dude, the man, the coolest guy in Kansai and our very good friend, Mr Toshio-san who stormed it to second place in the category 4 KNSCX Christmas cross yesterday...



Now the real work starts as he moves up to category 3! See more action shots from the race over on Kikuzo's Flickr page. 

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.

GUELL ROAD WEAR

Very stylish new jerseys from Guell...

Check them out on the Guell Nara blog.

ＢＭＸフラットランド

Guell rider Yasushi Tanabe...

BANDEL #04 BMX Yasushi Tanabe 《Short》

Susumu's Fuji Transonic SL

Our very good friend Susumu from Guell Bicycle recently upped his game when it comes to road racing by building up a very sleek looking new Fuji Transonic SL road bike....

A mix of old and new parts with a full Shimano Ultegra drive and brakes and a Capagnolo Zonda wheel set...

You can keep up with all things Guell related via the Guell Bicycle Instagram. A big thank you to Susumu-san for letting us take and share these photos.

Toshio-san's TNI CX

We dropped into Guell Bicycle last Saturday to check out Toshio-san's new titanium TNI cyclocross frame...

Taking all the parts from his Fuji Feather to complete the build, the mix of old and new is what makes this bike special...

Team Bubba in the area...

Looking forward to see Toshio-san smash it at next season's KNSCX. Podium or nothing!

KNSCX Final Round, Kyoto

Out in Kyoto yesterday for the final race of the Kansai Cyclocross season. Arriving on site just in time to catch our very good friend Toshio-san taking a few test laps...

By the time the races started the course was a mud bath, we've had a few days of heavy rain in west Japan, thankfully the sun was out yesterday...

 

There will be mud...

Fan's favourite Dave Hama...

Dave Hama

Did we mention the mud?..

Team Guell member Yusuke-san was managing to ride through it...

As was the mighty Toshio-san...

 

Well, some of it...

Mud, glorious mud...

Fun and games at the barriers...

 

Back in the pits the usual local cycling brands were doing their thing...

Cachalot

Toyo frame

Tokyo San-Esu

A very big thank you to Mike, Yuka, Toshio, Brad and the whole KNSCX crew. Naturally we'll be posting lots more photos from the day and the rest of the season up here in the coming weeks and months.