Fairweather CX: Blue Lug’s stylish cyclocrosser
There’s a little bike shop in Shibuya, Tokyo, called Blue Lug, who never cease to amaze with me the eclectic combinations of color and styles…
Bike brands from Japan
Kinfolk Track
Receiving an email from John Buellens, one of the founding members of Kinfolk Bicycles, always brightens up my inbox. It’s always guaranteed to contain superb…
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Zunow Hummingbird by Takeru Kageyama
Takeru Kageyama was a Japanese frame builder with a sense of humor. He is the man behind the Zunow brand and built frames considered to…
Report: 2012 Keirin Grand Prix
Today’s guest post brought to you by Matthew Sullivan. The 2012 Keirin GP was one of the few items i had locked in before heading…
Tenspeed Hero Fuji Ace
Andy ‘FYXO‘ White strongly maintains the maxim that #lifeistooshorttorideshitbikes, but projects like this make me wonder where to draw the line. It just goes to…
Koizumi Madison Taipan
Some guys go to incredible lengths to restore an old school BMX to period correctness, but Lixy Bacskay is a female Kiwi artist whose latest…
Yasujiro Gravity Bike
Gravity bike racing keeps gaining momentum, even after 30 years in existence. There’s an increasing number of ‘official’ events being held on hillsides all over…
Matty’s Toyo
Yoshiaki Ishigaki, the founder of Toyo Frames, raises some interesting points on his website about quality versus quantity. He wonders also about modern social quality…
Kalavinka Sunset
Will Goodan’s work has been featured on The Spoken more than once. With good reason: he has a great passion for Japanese keirin frames and…
Geekhouse Mudville by Blue Lug
Given the vast range of colors applied to Geekhouse Bikes, it’s no wonder their frames are so popular in Japan. Cyclocross also enjoys a huge…
A Giro Meccanico stripped raw in Madrid
Japanese Keirin frames are known for their fancy paint schemes — infused with glitter and bearing the elaborate and deeply venerated marques of their builders.…
Kinfolk Cobalt Blue fixed gear bicycle
It would be interesting to hear what Shuichi Kusaka has to say about the current resurgence in cycling, which is in no part thanks to…
Will Goodan’s Keirin-inspired Nagasawa Special
It wasn’t that long ago when a decommissioned Keirin frame, completely adorned with parts approved by the Nihon Jitensha Shinkōkai, or NJS, was considered the…
Sanki Datsun 510 BRE
Indonesia’s Eric Caprin has already created a number of wildly themed custom bikes under his ‘Kustom Sickless’ banner, and this is his latest: a fixed-gear…
Venus
If you’ve bought the 2012 The Spoken Custom Bicycle Calendar, and you’re the type of person who flicks ahead so there’s no surprises, you’ll know…
