Kinki Cycle: August 2016

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

A Sunday In Sakai

Out in Osaka last Sunday with F-i-N, starting off at Tenno-ji Station for a ride down to Sakai...

Birdie 1.

Doing a bit of street photography on the way down...

#RoadsLikeThese.

Killer.

Monkey.

Under the bridge.

A chance discovery of a very, very cool coffee shop called Karo, located under the railway tracks in an old storage room...

Karo Coffee.

Then back out on the road heading south...

We Are Traffic.

The essential combini stop...

Birdie 2.

Finally arriving at the OSGP Jam, a BMX contest organised by the Function Junction shop in their skatepark...

OSGP Jam.

Each one teach one.

Bicycle parking.

Refreshments on offer included something called a Coronarita, basically a bottle of Corona emptied into a Margarita...

Choose your weapon.

Which F-i-N just had to try...

Drink responsibly kids.

Out on the ramps the riding was getting serious with the Elite class putting on an amazing display in the final jam session of the day...

@ToshioBMX

@OnigiriBMX159

Thanks, as always, to Brad and the whole OSGP Jam crew. There will be a full run down of the OSGP Jam action including all the bikes posted here soon.

Birdie 3.

Sunday, 21 August 2016

Vintage GT Zaskar

Beautiful bright pink custom GT Zaskar MTB spotted out in Osaka a couple of weeks ago...

A seriously nice build with some old parts still going strong including the Magura hydraulic rim brakes...

Bontrager/Easton post & Thomson clamp...

Since we posted a shot of this bike up on our Instagram the owner of the bike, Stirling Elmendorf, got in touch and told us a little more about it. A 1993 Zaskar that's been rebuilt five times since, the last time by Griacha. Check out a much better drive-side shot of the bike on Stirling's Instagram.

A million bonus retro MTB points for the Onza Porcupine sticker!

Friday, 19 August 2016

Meanwhile in Munich...

Our very good friend Adam Bell sent some photos of a gorgeous Miyata he has recently restored...

And that's not the only thing that Adam has been working on. As a follow up to his superb Bicycle Dictionary Adam has come up with this stunning poster...

A beautiful piece of work, hand drawn by Adam with each part listed in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. The poster will soon be available from Sim Works in Japan. For international stockists it is available direct from Umwerk in Munich. In Europe it will be stocked at Keirin Berlin, Fixiestube, Suicycle and Schicke Mutze. In North America it's available at Speed and Sprocket, Hoopdriver and C&L Cycle. It really is a gorgeous and very useful poster, buy one now and make yourself very happy!