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Bike Check: Joan’s Makino

It’s time for another bike check, and it looks like we’ve been on an NJS streak lately! But this one isn’t from Japan… It’s from Brooklyn…

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Bike Check: Nagasawa’s Custom SSCX Nagasawa

Hello readers! Over the past few months, I’ve been writing about how NJS bikes are a good base for builds when you look past the strictly “Keirin style Track bike” that they are built for…

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Bike Check: Jaming’s Peloton

Throughout 2024, I noticed more and more builds following the same pattern. And I have to admit, even though it's not a new concept, the idea of a vintage steel track frame modernized with drops and brakes is becoming increasingly tempting…

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Life with the No.22 Little Wing: A Long-Term Review

This is it! The review I’ve been carefully shaping over the past six months, reflecting on every detail both on and off the bike during my time with the No. 22 Little Wing. That said, my goal here is to share my genuine, unfiltered thoughts…

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Bike Check: Lettuce-San’s Suntour Tandem

Feeling extra in sync with your bestie recently and wondering how it would feel to blast on a gorgeous track bike but… together. Don’t worry, the Shuhari collection has what you need…

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Bike Check: Lettuce-San’s 3Rensho Domifon

Another bike from Shuhari and another piece of history I had the pleasure to try. The 3rensho Domifon is a stayer bike, and if you are unfamiliar with this type of machine, allow me to explain…

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Bike Check: Toma‘s Watanabe

A few months back, I was featuring Tomas' Peloton and its many quirks, as well as how he decided to build the whole bike around the front suspension fork. Today, I’d like to showcase another one of his incredibly unusual builds - His Watanabe NJS…

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Bike Check: Sada‘s 12” Araya Micro Hurry

What if... your chainring were as large as your wheels? It seems very difficult on 700c or even 26 inches. But what about 12 inches? The same size as a toddler's balance bike, but rideable by a grown adult…

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Bike Check: Sato’s Fixed Picnica

The Japanese economic bubble of the 1980s gave birth to numerous inventions that came into existence "because they could." One such creation is the Bridgestone Picnica...

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Bike Check: Corentin’s Custom Mash SSCX

The Mash SSCX is a very good frame! Featuring track dropouts, 120mm spacing, wide tire clearance, and cantilever brake mounts. Ahead of its time, this frame had only one drawback…

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Bike Check: Lettuce-San’s Samson Challenger

Last month, I was finally introducing you to Shuhari Bike Works. So it’s now time to start the long sequence of all the bike checks I did over there, and what better bike to start with than the one some people call “the Japanese Laser”…

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Self Bike Check: The Parakino (Year 2)

I know! I’m a bit late! But since many of you requested it, here is an update on the state of my daily a.k.a. the Fire Parallax a.k.a. the Parakino, 2 years later…

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The Fumikiri Bike Show on F*cked Film

Do you like dramatic pictures? Over-saturated contrasts and underexposed scenes? Well, you’re in luck!When I dropped the film I shot at the first Fumikiri bike show…

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The Quokka Cycles Workshop

When people with excellent taste decide to mix bike and car culture to create a bike brand based on their aesthetics and convictions, I expect nothing but great outcomes.

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Bike Check: Kang’s Quokka MudSlayer

Thinking back about it, I think I’ve been following the “Kang Adventure” from day 0. From his early training at Cyfac to his first Quokka Cycles prototype, and now one of the final bikes that was missing from his lineup…

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Bike Check: Yuki’s Carbon Kalavinka

During CMWC this year, I had the opportunity to meet MANY very cool people, most of them wielding equally awesome bikes. And, on the hunt for another bike-check…

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Convert any Fixed-Gear to a Tracklocross shredder.

There are enough articles on this website to prove that the Parallax is by far, one of my favorite track bike to be mass-produced. A tight geometry, good for the city and everything that stays on “paved roads”

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