Vintage Rene Herse

Absolutely beautiful vintage Rene Herse shot at the Bicycle Museum Cycle Center in Sakai, Osaka a couple of weeks ago...

F-i-N's Look KG361

When F-i-N's Giant TCR road bike got a crack on the BB shell a couple of months back he began the hunt for a new frame. The mighty Giracha had a beautiful early 2000's Look KG361 in stock. F-i-N snapped it up and swapped the parts from his Giant on to it. The results are stunning. A perfect match of old and new...

Vintage Roland Eloi Road Bike

Beautiful, rare, vintage Roland Eloi French road bike spotted whilst out on a ride in Koriyama yesterday...

Equipped with the curious and equally rare Spindel groupset...

The owner of the bike was a very friendly gent who had ridden this bike all the way from Osaka for the afternoon, chapeau!

Alex Singer Constructeur At Grand Bois

Absolutely stunning vintage Alex Singer Constructeur shot at the wonderful Cycles Grand Bois in Kyoto last month...

The details are just beautiful, these photos do not do justice to how gorgeous this bike is...

That chrome, that blue pin striping...

The drillium hubs...

The Stronglight cranks...

All the way down to the original Cyclo derailleur...

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French Flair

A few shots taken at the superb Velo Paris whilst out in Osaka on Christmas day...

They currently have a fleet of beautifully restored vintage French bikes on sale...

And there are always a few very nice, very vintage parts on display too...

It's also worth saying that Velo Paris sell some very beautiful clothes, check out the webshop for more info. You can also follow the Velo Paris parent company Mamborama on their Instagram page.

A Bicycle Journey

Our good friend Adam Bell recently sent us some photos of a restoration project he had been working on. A vintage Motobecane that definitely needed some love. The bike arrived to Adam in this state... 

A few days of magic in Adam's kitchen/workshop...

And she was up and running...

Adam sent through some very nice detailed photos of the finished bike...

So what the hell does this have to do with Japan? Well after all his hard work Adam then sold the bike onto his friend Kitayama-san who lives up in Nagahama, Shiga prefecture and helps organise a local Tweed Picnic cycling event. He sent Adam some photos of the bike in it's new home...

A big thank you to Adam for sharing these photos and a little reminder that you can still buy Adam's superb Bicycle Dictionary and stunning new poster from Circles in Japan and many other good bike & book stores worldwide.