It's been a while that I uploaded some bicycle related article here. So time to catch up a little bit. [an other article should follow tomorrow or monday]As I needed to buy some new tubes I visited the Y's Road shop in Yokohama. It was a good occasion to check their fixie corner. As I said in an old post this shop is not specialized in fixed gear bikes but more on road race ones. In this category... Read more

Finally I uploaded a selection of my photos taken at the Cycle Mode Tokyo in December 2009. About 80 of them. I wanted to make it in several parts but hardly found the time to do it. I only did for 2 articles : for the Fuji booth and for the Italian brands represented there. Also I had a special selection of the photos featured on Wallpaper* but I had much more, so here it is. In this article... Read more

Like last year I went to the Handmade Bicycle Fair of Tokyo this last Saturday. I would say that the usual suspects were there. So it's cool to see the works done by the craft men but it's also a good opportunity to meet and have a chat with the jitensha (bicycle) otaku :) And certainly a very good occasion to meet new people. Cherubim First booth I visited is the Cherubim's one, I met t... Read more

More photos taken at Cycle Mode, today I will focus on Italian brands that caught my eyes. This first one was simply wonderful, design, color, I love it! With nice wheels to go with it Clearly this scattofisso is bike p**n Cheaper and very popular, Bianchi 2010 models, not in turquoise for once. Cool single speed, Vittoria has a whole collection of... Read more

Thanks to Gordon Kanki Knight who is a journalist based in Tokyo, I am quite happy to see about 15 photos I shot at the Cycle Mode International "published" on the website of Wallpaper*. Gordon is also a bicycle lover, fixed gear rider and formerly a track racer. He used to write for bicycle magazines as well, for sure he knows what he is talking about! As for Wallpaper* if you don't kn... Read more