Monday, 6 April 2015

A Ride In The Rain

It all started so well, perfect photo opps in Nara Koen...
A Sunday ride with FiN around Nara. It should have been a perfect time to photograph the cherry blossoms. The weather had other ideas...

Naramachiten Shrine.
Naramachiten Shrine 2.
By the time we had ridden up to the Naramachiten Shrine the skies opened...

Waiting @ Naramachiten.
Not such a bad place to wait for the rain to pass though...

Naramachiten Shrine 3.
Naramachiten Shrine 4.
Naramachiten Shrine 5.
After a coffee stop at the Mellow Cafe we headed up to Nigatsu-do...

Nigatsu-do at dusk.
Seriously heavy skies over Nara...

View from Nigatsu-do.
With rain forecast on and off for the next week we may or may not get a chance to shoot some sakura. Stay tuned to find out!

Lantern at Nigatsu-do.

The Party35

Superb dirt action from last summer...


The Party35 from Kei Yanagisawa on Vimeo.

Saturday, 4 April 2015

Friday, 3 April 2015

A Quick Visit To Movement, Osaka


We dropped into the superb Bicycle Studio Movement in Tennoji, Osaka on Monday. The shop was busy and crammed with bikes awaiting repair so we only took a few snaps. This seriously custom Alan CX bike that was in for a service caught our eye...


The ceiling is full of gorgeous frames from the likes of All City, Cherubim and Makino, just waiting to be built up...


Tucked away on the clothing display was this very interesting Extar Proton single speed road frame...


And, of course, a couple of Mudman frames ready for shredding...


A truly great shop well worth dropping in when you find yourself in the area. You can follow Movement on FacebookTwitter and Flickr.

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Team Shimoyanagi pv

K4L9


K4L9 from K4L BMX on Vimeo.

Hit The City

Loaded up on the train...
We spent Monday afternoon riding around a beautifully sunny Osaka. Starting out in the south side of the city we dropped into the gorgeous Shitenno-ji to play tourist and get some sakura shots...






A couple of shadow shots in the bike parking area...

Shadow 1
Shadow 2
And then through the backstreets heading north towards Umeda...

#Lightbro
#Lightbro
Crossing. So. many. Crossings.
 The obligatory coffee stop at the superb Columbia Cafe...

The best coffee in town @ Cafe Columbia
 And a few combini stops along the way...

Combini Stop, somewhere near Umeda.
As night fell we made our way back to Namba to catch the train back to Nara...

Nighfall, Umeda.
It wasn't just an afternoon of riding and photography, we dropped into both Movement and Gira Gira and have more shots that will be up here soon.

Gira Gira
Tune...