Yuji Kimura is a Japanese industrial designer who studied in Germany — and now lives there — and now designs beautiful bicycles under the moniker of Kimura Cycle Works. This sporty randonneur is his latest creation, again inspired by the Ave group.
In a world of fancy paint work and electronic groupsets, it’s easy to forget about what lies underneath it all: the craft of the frame builder and their skill with the torch, their heat control and finishing. It takes a bike like this tourer by Kimura Cycleworks to remind us.
The namesake of this angelic machine is the crane, an elegant bird that annually crosses continents for their winter migration. It’s an apt title for…
