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Une journée avec les coureurs / A day with the riders in Saitama

The big boys were over in the east racing the Saitama Criterium yesterday, before that they had a chance to soak up some Japanese culture...



Our east Japan correspondent Hiroshi sent us some great pictures from yesterday's action. We'll post them here sometime this week. 

[Teaser] 2015 Tour de France Saitama Critérium

The big boys are coming, hope they can get their "doctors" through Japanese customs...

Le Tour de France Saitama Criterium Japan 2014 - Finish

Saitama Criterium (Flickr Round Up)

Maipenrai Enopy and Wei Yuet have some great action shots from the Saitama Crit over on their Flickr pages...

Saitama Criterium 2014

Our very good friend and east Japan correspondent, Hiroshi, was down at the second Saitama Criterium yesterday. He got himself a good spot and sent us over some great shots. The day started with a ride around the course for the general public...

And then the big boys arrived...

In case you don't want to know the final result we won't mention it but you can get a full rundown here. A big thank you to Hiroshi for sharing these photos, we owe you a coffee next time you are in Nara!

Silbest Cycle, Kyoto

We dropped into one of the Kyoto branches of Slibest Cycle a couple of weeks ago. The staff were kind enough to let us take photos so we took quite a few...

The shop is big and very, very well stocked. A roadie paradise with frames and bikes from pretty much all the big European and American brands...

Not just road bikes, there are some pricey looking cross and tri bikes too...

And more frames that you can shake a stick at...

The same goes for the wheels...

And equally well stocked parts, accessories and clothing...

With some funky custom local team jerseys hanging above the bikes...

A big shop with a mind blowing amount of stock, the staff are friendly and knowledgable. The one stop shop for all your roadie needs, worth checking out when in town. Keep up with the Silbest stores via their Facebook page.