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Fairweather, How To HANDLEBAR BAG+

Fairweather, How To HANDLEBAR BAG+ from fairweather on Vimeo.

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.

MP430

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GrandBois Easy RINKO by Daisuke

Something so very therapeutic about this video...



You can buy that bag on the Grand Bois webshop.

Circles Tailored

A bunch of shots taken upstairs at the mighty Circles store in Nagoya during the Personal Bike Show last month...

Circles Tailored.

This part of the shop is called Circles Tailored where customers can be guided through the custom bicycle order process. As well as some gorgeous Chris King Cielo bikes on display as part of the P.B.S there were many other beautiful bikes and frames dotted around...

Cielo.

Cielo.

Seven Cycles

DeSalvo.

Cielo Frames.

DeSalvo

Retrotec

Vicious Cycles.

Vicious Cycles.

Sycip

Along with all the beautiful bikes and frames there's clothing, bags, bottles, caps, books and a ton of cool memorabilia...

Jerseys.

Jean Jacket.

Bags.

Bottles.

Tubes & Tools.

Choices.

Reading.

Hub porn.

Be sure to follow the Circles and Circles Tailored Instagram accounts for more of this sort of thing.

Hampsten's Huffy and DeSalvo art.

Kyoto Cruisin'

Kyoto scene 1.

Rolling through a hot and steamy Kyoto yesterday afternoon with F-i-N...

F-i-N shooting.

The first port of call was the newly opened Velo Stand Kyoto, an E.B.S showroom...

Velo Stand Kyoto

Then heading north through the quiet backstreets...

Brad, on point.

Up to the wonderful Grand Bois shop...

Riders in Rapha shooting Randonneurs. 

Followed by a cruise back downtown...

Parked.

And a stop at the super cool Achieve store...

Achieve Kyoto

I.L.E bags at Achieve

And then a ride across the river to the ever wonderful Cycle Garden where there is always a huge amount of bike porn to shoot...

Custom Cinelli.

Low Bicycles.

Spur Cycle 

Finally, a dusk ride back down to the tower...

Kyoto Scene 2.

There will be more shots and details from Velo Stand Kyoto posted here during the week. Cheers, as always to Fixed in Nara and a personal thank you to the guys at Cycle Garden for sorting out my light bracket, on the spot, free of charge. Seriously people, go buy things at Cycle Garden!

Circles & Co. Nagoya

OK, here we go, a rundown of the photos we took at the amazing Circles store in Nagoya last month...

Even the window displays are crammed full of some seriously nice bike porn...

And inside there's more, lots more. Just inside the door is this beautiful Sim Works Doppo tourer built by Nagoya frame builder Shin...

A gorgeous Sycip town bike...

A very cool Hunter Cycles single speed MTB...

The shop is absolutely packed with bikes and parts...

And frames...

Which naturally need forks...

More bars than a Bukowski novel...

And so many parts and accessories, all very well displayed with some fun info dotted around too...

In the side room next to the workshop there's mudguards or "fenders" for the non-English speaking readers...

And tyres...

Everything you would need for a bike packing adventure...

And more tyres...

A good selection of bags at the rear of the main shop...

And caps (not hats)...

And clothing...

Around the counter there are display cabinets. To the bicycle nerd these cabinets are treasure chests bursting with shiny booty...

As well as all this stock there is some very nice cycling memorabilia on display...

An amazing shop with a mind blowing amount of stock. No ifs no buts, go there. Turn off your computer, pack a bag, get on a plane and go to Circles. Or follow the shop via their Twitter, Instagram and Flickr pages. A big thank you to Shige and all the Circles crew for the warm welcome and hospitality.

All these photos were taken downstairs at Circles, we still have a bunch of pictures taken upstairs. They'll be posted here soon, stay tuned.