Friends of FOE Sayonara Century (FOE048)

Earlier this month our good friend and maker of some great Japanese cycling videos, writer of fantastic articles and all round decent bloke, Bradley FoE had to return home to Birmingham, England. Before he left he organised a farewell century ride...



You can still keep up with Bradley's adventures via his FoE Instagram. Hopefully we'll see him back in the land of the rising sun one day, in the meantime take care brother Bradley and up the Villa! 

Seima is a life form-SD

Seima is a life form-SD from seima3142 on Vimeo.

All City Log Lady

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Sean's Ritchey Road Logic

Last Sunday morning we met up with Sean from the wonderful Bike Packing Japan website who had spent Saturday riding the 160km from Nagoya to Nara on his gorgeous Ritchey Logic roadbike...

He had travelled light with a very useful Fairmean bar bag...

The bike is a well thought out mix of Sram Red, Rival and Force...

A huge thank you to Sean for taking the time to meet up and chat bikes and routes. You can follow Bike Packing Japan on Instagram and Vimeo.

Fairweather SSCX at Cycle Garden

Gorgeous custom Fairweather cyclocross bike shot at the wonderful Cycle Garden in Kyoto last weekend....

URA KAYOBOO 2017 Short Edit

Custom Soma Tradesman

A very nice, very pimp, custom Soma Tradesman that was parked outside Velo Life Unpeu in Osaka last week... 

Some very cool parts including a Sim Works stem (with custom bell) and the classic Chris King headset and that's a Stem Captain top cap...

Of course a Brooks saddle...

With Blue Lug special Nitto bars and Paul taking care of the braking...

"I GOT MINE" Behind The Scenes - Tomomi Nishikubo

Yanagi Cycle "For Beijing"

Stunner from Yanagi Cycle...



See more on the Yanagi Cycle Flickr, read more on the Yanagi Cycle blog.

H/T to FiN.

BALLOONER DRIFT RAW 店頭販売モデル BROOKS OLIVE

See more of this monster here.

Want to live in Nagoya

Want to live in Nagoya from STUDIOKC on Vimeo.

litstlip 1day session

litstlip 1day session from hiroya0515 on Vimeo.

TRINITY

TRINITY from HiroshiWatanabe on Vimeo.

HIDEYUKI KUDO 2016

HIDEYUKI KUDO 2016 from 361local on Vimeo.

2016-17中国シクロクロス 宮島 カテゴリー1ダイジェスト

Pacer's Nagasawa

A few shots of a stunning Nagasawa at yesterday's Nara Keirin meeting. The usual "NJS" build, Dura Ace, Sugino, Kashimax and Araya but holy fuck moly that paintjob...

S-TRAIL RideCLIP January, 2017

Vintage Itami Roadbike

Rather beaten but still somewhat classy vintage Itami roadbike shot in Osaka last month...

PEGY for ANIMAL BIKES 2016

HIGHFIVE

HIGHFIVE from Kai-snds on Vimeo.

ARAYA MUDDYFOX Custom after

Rew10Works have been killin' it recently with their custom builds and rebuilds, this SS Araya Muddy Fox being Just one example...

See more like this on the Rew10 Flickr and Instagram.

Day In The Life // Hiroto Sato

Day In The Life // Hiroto Sato from RelaxonFilms on Vimeo.

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Bridgestone Radac Tailor Made

A few quick phone snaps of a well kept, vintage Bridgestone Radac "Tailor Made" roadbike spotted locked up outside Y's Road in Osaka a couple of weeks back..

FD-CAM by SHIMANO SPORTS CAM 関西シクロクロス 2016-17 第9戦サカイセンシュケン 堺

Ame-San's Bridgestone Chero

Ame-san is a Nara based shoemaker, leather craftsman and fellow bicycle nerd. His custom Bridgestone Chero mini velo is one very classy bike...

Ame-san has crafted and hand stitched his own leather saddle cover...

And leather grips...

They're hand stitched under the bars enclosing the brake cables...

He also hand cut and polished the mudguards (fenders for our Yankee readers)...

And even hand crafted leather cable clips...

Like we said, classy, very classy.

2016-17関西シクロクロス第9戦 サカイセンシュケン KNS1617-09 カテゴリー1ダイジェスト

Paper Sky Magazine Kyoto Issue

The latest issue of the wonderful Paper Sky Magazine is devoted to cycling in and around Kyoto...

Some great in depth articles covering routes, bike packing, touring...

Essential kit to take...

 Local riders, shops and brands including EBS Cycle...

Available at bookshops across Japan and internationally via the Paper Sky webshop.

Adam's 2017 Bicycle Calendar

Our very good friend, graphic designer and fellow bicycle freak, Adam Bell has made a 2017 Bicycle Calendar now available from Sim Works in Japan and Umwerk in Europe.

Oita 2008 Keisuke Tanigawa

The White Stuff

Snow arrives across Kinki...

Image from here.

Time to wrap up and go shred!