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| The best fixed gear shop in the world. |
A couple of weekends ago we joined up with
Fixed-in-Nara and ventured out to Osaka, starting things off right with a coffee stop at the mighty
Giracha...
Suitably caffeinated we headed north, taking in a bit of street art on the way...
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| Art. |
Naturally stopping to shoot some cool
#LockedUpBikes...
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| Kuwahara 24" BMX cruiser. |
It was a beautiful spring day and Osaka was being so Osaka...
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| Osaka Style. |
Our destination was
OVE who were hosting the fourth
Cycle Letters exhibition...
An exhibition/event where local bike friendly companies and cyclists come together to show off new products and teach various cycling related things including cycling photography, leather work, printing and more...
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| Cycle Letters. |
Local Osaka shop
Palm Garage had a nice display of products...
Including their very cute NJS chain key rings...
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| Palm Garage key rings. |
And custom
Kashimax saddles...
Araya had some nice city bikes on display...
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| Araya Swallow. |
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| Araya. |
A gorgeous, Shiga made
Macchi Cycles road bike was being used to show off the stunning
Modoru Kikaku bike stands...
Local accessories and parts brand
Adept Works had some really nice bits of kit on their stand...
Corner Bikes were showing off
Keisuke's stunning new CX bike, that Salsa homage paint job was done by the masters at
Cook Paintworks...
Munieq had some cool little bits on show like these folding coffee drippers, perfect for that
#CoffeeOutside ride...
Moca were showing off some stylish leather products...
Obiviosly there was a fair bit of bike porn parked outside the venue...
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| Little and large EBS. |
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| Vigore. |
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| Cannondale. |
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| KHS. |
A big thank you to
Brad,
Sayaka,
Shouichi,
Adept Works,
Takeshi and everyone at the
Cycle Letters event for what was a really fun and friendly bike centric event. There will be more bike photos from the day posted here soon.