Candy Cranks

It’s been almost one year since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Tohoku in Japan. Cielo (by Chris King) and Sim-Works (from Nagoya) collaborated on making the frames as Tsunami Memorial Bikes.

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On the 11th of March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan, causing 15,846 confirmed deaths, tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres and a World Bank estimated economic cost of US$235 billion, making it the most expensive natural disaster in world history.

It has been reassuring to witness the world uniting around Japan at this devastating and crucial time. Chris King and his Cielo brand have collaborated with their Japanese distributors, Sim-Works, on a limited edition cyclocross bike, with all profits from their sales directed to support of the relief effort.

Chris King needs no introduction: many of the world’s bikes are equipped with his hubs or headsets, but less well known is the fact that he’s also a frame builder of the highest quality, applying the same high standards of engineering to his road and cyclocross frames as his Precision Components. You’ll notice the prominence of the date, 11.3.11 on the frame and forks, a poignant reminder of not only the catastrophic day but also as a call to action to the great and resilient people of Japan.

Only 5 of these frames have been made: the Extra Small size has been sold already, and, at the time of printing, there are only 2 models left in Small and 2 models left in Medium. Secure your chance to contribute to Japan’s relief effort and own a finely tuned and specified cyclocross bike from a legend of cycling, Chris King: contact Cielo in the United States or Sim-Works in Japan.

Thanks Adam for sharing and featuring this bike!

Check out Cycle EXIF, you will find lots of cool bikes in this website.

During the holidays, the City and County of Honolulu puts up an impressive lights display. Unfortunately, this year was a bit of a letdown with fewer lights than usual, but we still had a fun and rainy bike ride to see it all.

The group in front of the shaka Santa

Jade showing off her awesome Google Bike shirt and bicycle

Hawaiian style Christmas tree featuring shave ice and spam musubi

The Surfrider Foundation sponsored a display powered by solar energy and featured Lego bicyclers!

Molly posing with her bicycle

Happy holidays and New Year from Honolulu! Cheehoo!

It’s holiday season!.. I recently have a good chance to visit Clockenflap Festival in Hong Kong and surely brought out my camera and took dozens of snap shots of the great landscape and Hong Kong city life. These are few of my shots which contain the spirits of cycling around Hong Kong.

via _sartje_

Last Wednesday, I was going out with friends for Raboo Raboo, I must say that this is the most crowded Raboo Raboo in Jakarta 2011, hundreds cyclist are joining. We ride about 18 km from Taman Menteng (Central Jakarta) to Fatahillah Museum (West Side of Jakarta) and then back again to Taman Menteng, when we arrived we notice that there’s a night market in Fatahillah, wow.. double pleasure! we were having so much fun! See more photos on my previous post on Reflecteur Bandi

Many apologies for the absence… So many fun things happened this year since I moved to Berlin. The sun is setting earlier. The air is dark and chilly. Woah it’s already December! The end of a year. So a catch up. One more big party is coming up for your all year conclusion! I need more girls to race! ( ´艸｀) 〜♡

+ + THIS FRIDAY December 9, at Keirin Cycle Culture Café. Roll at 8:00pm + +

Pioneers of the global fixed gear bike culture Keirin Cycle Culture Café and Rollapaluza come together for the first ever Rollapaluza roller-race in Berlin.

Keirin Cycle Culture Café:

Keirin Cycle Culture Café is recognized worldwide as the first ever “fixed gear shop” having first opened back in 2004 as a hangout for their messenger mates (all members of Keirin and Rollapaluza are ex-couriers), selling them coffee, bikes and parts and mending their bikes. ( http://www.keirinberlin.de/ )

Rollapaluza:

The first Rollapaluza roller race was held in a pub in London in 2000 and Rollpaluza involves two riders racing over 500 metres on custom built static roller-rigs with their progress displayed on a huge dial and their times recorded by split-second digital timing, all to the backdrop of cheering crowds and pumping music.

Never seen Rollapaluza? check their movies: http://www.rollapaluza.de/movies

P.S. I’ll tell you about this + more stuff… but later.

Coming from the craziness of Honolulu’s streets full of potholes and terrible drivers, a vacation to Oregon was the Hawaiian cyclist’s paradise. Luckily with Hawaii powers, we brought the sunshine to Oregon and had fantastic fall cycling weather with wonderful friends. Our first stop was for a delicious Thanksgiving feast in Corvallis, home of Oregon State University. This college town is flat and comprised of over 90% bicycle lanes. We visited our part-time Hawaii resident friend and bike polo enthusiast Eilif, who lives at the Corvallis “Bike Haus”.

The Bike Haus residents graciously lent us polo bikes and took us on a mini bike ride on some paths and to downtown Corvallis.

Cuties Kevin and Shanna rocked the tandem bike!

Eilif even gave people rides on his bike rack.. Dave looks like he’s having tons of fun

And by chance, we ended up with the Corvallis bike and pedicab crew’s section in the holiday parade. The kids enjoyed the pedicabs, bike tricks and wheel guards on the polo bikes.. hopefully it made some of them want to ride bikes!

From Corvallis, we went to Portland for a weekend of bikes, beer, friends and good food. The Honolulu community bike shop KVIBE is getting a cargo bike from a local Portland framebuilder, so we went to the cargo-bike specialists at Splendid Cycles to check out the bikes, and pose for pictures.

The Ace Hotel where we stayed offered free bike rentals to hotel guests, which allowed us to explore the bike friendly streets of Portland with great happiness. Our friend Shawn gave us a tour of the North East Alberta district and other friends Brett and Megan biked us around the South East area.

Overall, a successful vacation from a tropical paradise to a cycling paradise!
Most photos by Sau Hsu.

I’m in this months Urban Velo – made sure to add the Candy Cranks website at the bottom!

2011 Singlespeed Cyclocross World Championships from Hans Kellner on Vimeo.

Sheila Moon Presents the Singlespeed Cyclocross World Championships 2011
(It’s raining right now in San Francisco so the course is guaranteed to be good and muddy!)

Sunday November 20th: RACE DAY!
A world class course awaits featuring oversize obstacles the likes of which you have never seen. Races running all day long. Race multiple times and win!
Races will be held near Metson Lake in Golden Gate Park. (MAP)
Costumes are optional, though they may help start positions.

Race-Day Schedule of Events

9:00 Men C/Clydesdale/Juniors/Tandem/Women (SS/geared) – 45 min
10:00 B Men (SS/Geared) – 45 min
11:00 Open Men (SS/Geared) – 45 min
12:00 Men SS E.A.W. – 45 min
13:00 Women SSCXWC – 45 min
14:00 Men SSCXWC – 60 min
15:30 Awards

16:00 – ?? – Post Race Party and dinner at the Buckshot Restaurant Bar and Gameroom! A short ride from the park at 3848 Geary Blvd. (Between 2nd and 3rd Ave) Please note that the Buckshot is CASH ONLY.

To help big up all the female riders, every registered female racer will get a pair of Sheila Moon sleeves/moonwarmers. Sweet!