Gacharinco! – Bicycle Dance Team Nagoya

October 15th, 2009 · 19 Comments

Hello! We are Gacharinco!, the 1st fixed gear bicycle dance team in Japan.
On October 11 2009, Gacharinco! made the virgin performance at the Toyota Rock Festival in Nagoya.

Gacharinco!

Gacharinco! is the imitative sound in Japanese, the clipless pedals lock to the cleats when stepped in.

We were just dreaming of having fun with dancing and bicycle together! Our members are 14 girls (include 1 guy) made in miracle collaboration with real sexy dancers Panthers and fixie bike riders NUTS! Girls.

We ride on country rock and make sexy & cute moves. We love dots & stripes and chose red & white colors as Japanese flag. Red/white is also traditionally used as congratulation colors in Japan.

Our next show will be at NO CAR BIKE ONLY rave event NUTS!FES. on October 24th!
Keep your eyes open and get ready for your tires pumped!

Thanks,
Hope to see ya in the street someday!

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19 responses so far ↓

1 Marissa - Los Angeles // Oct 15, 2009 at 2:15 pm

This makes me want to go to Japan so much more!
Great pictures.
2 Rie - Nagoya // Oct 16, 2009 at 12:47 pm

Hello Marissa, thanks for your comment! I’d absolutely love to have you in Japan, guaranteed fun with a ride around!

Just thought that would be awesome if we all girls can meet up and ride around each country as Candy Crank summit!
3 meligrosa // Oct 16, 2009 at 2:48 pm

so awesome!!
4 Rie - Nagoya // Oct 17, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Thanks a lot! yeaaa, we want to show n give our hearts to a lot of people a little by little.
I really love your blog anyways.
5 Meg // Oct 18, 2009 at 11:47 am

Another awesome event Rie! How cute are your outfits!? You guys rock. Great pics btw. Candy Cranks summit, that sounds like a superb idea!!
6 Rie - Nagoya // Oct 20, 2009 at 12:41 pm

Thanks Meg! call us for any events in Sydney (＾o＾)/, we will be shakin it on anytime! yaa, all Candy Cranks authors are so lovely and have a great talent. Lets spinning around the world!
7 Carolina // Nov 5, 2009 at 5:20 am

hi!+I\’m+so+glad+for+you+girls!
Just+as+a+curisity,+there\’s+a+whole+movement+of+bike+dancing+happening+in+the+West+Coast+of+America+and+Canada.+it+started+with+the+Sprockettes+from+Portland,+OR.+(and+since+then+we+got+the+Brakes,+the+B:C:clettes,+VeloVixens,+the+Deraillers…and+more)+we+use+various+styles+of+bikes,+though.

Congratuations!!++you+gals+should+come+visit+us+sometime.
8 Agent Chaos // Nov 5, 2009 at 7:00 am

Oh my Goodness! We are so excited to see this incarnation of bicycle dance! I am a member of The Derailleurs and was also a member of The Sprockettes and we are SO PROUD!!! We were discussing how great it would be if Japan had a bike dance team and here it is!!!! So now the question is when can we meet and go on a world tour?!! Check out my website for more background info on the history of bike dancing here in the western hemisphere.
http://agentchaosproductions.blogspot.com/2008/06/modern-history-of-bike-dance-team.html
9 Agent Pulse // Nov 5, 2009 at 7:11 am

Hello from Portland Oregon…. Im apart of the Sprockettes, an all female mini bike dance team.. and WOW this is so exciting.. there are about 10 bike dance teams around the world and its nice to know this bike dance culture is blowing up all over.. BIKE DANCE REVOLUTION!!! welcome to the team!
check out Sprockettes.org
10 linanda // Nov 5, 2009 at 7:20 am

one grain, ten thousand grains, as osawa used to say.
Keep on planting the good times.
11 Agent Chaos // Nov 5, 2009 at 7:39 am

PS: any videos?
12 Agent Crush // Nov 5, 2009 at 9:04 am

WOWZERS!!!!!! I am in The Sprockettes too and this is blowin’ my mind!!! Thank you so much for bringing the revolution across the Pacific!!! World Tour!!!! Let’s step this jam on up!
13 Rie - Nagoya // Nov 10, 2009 at 7:53 pm

wow! just can’t believe… this is like a dream to receive the great comments from the Sprockettes and the Deraillers!! Im so impressed and just can’t stop getting lots of goose bumps now, omg… every single comment is wonderful. yea, love the word “BIKE DANCE REVOLUTION!!!”

I wanted to say thank you to everyone of you that is interested in our little Nagoya bike dance team, we might be looked different expression, don’t have the difficult performance like other bike teams and sometimes people feel like sh*t on us but we all girls are very proud of ourselves and do enjoy dancing on bikes very much.

we’ve already seen your blogs, videos and articles before, the Sprockettes and the Deraillers are the our big heroes!! (we do have your calendar) we were dreaming to meet the Sprockettes and going to world tour in the future so Im so happy to see you guys are curious about us. wow! our dream will come very soon!?

I was just about to send a message with our video to the Sprockettes but our video’s not available yet… it will be on youtube in a couple of weeks i hope. I will email to your blog personally.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
－Rie－
14 DJ Gray // Nov 12, 2009 at 6:19 am

BIKE ONLY rave event NUTS!FES? That’s awesome. I’ve wished so much that these two cultures in Portland Oregon would meet up more often, but alas… Thanks for the inspiration and I can’t wait to see your videos.
15 Rie - Nagoya // Nov 12, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Thanks for your great comment, that inspires me more and keeping up these kinds of stuffs for long… yea, we just want to share how much fun to riding & pedalling a bicycle to the rave event! it doesnt matter for us how big size of event and cool looking. just wanna have fun n make new friends!
16 Agent Tamale // Nov 19, 2009 at 12:29 pm

WOW! I love it! Rock on ladies. I’m with the Sprockettes too and this is so cool to see. Keep it up.
17 Rie - Nagoya // Dec 12, 2009 at 3:37 am

★THANK YOU our hero the Sprockettes★
I finally got video of our 1st stage. Please enjoy♪
http://www.candycranks.com/archives/5073
18 Alvi Anticoaster // Jan 23, 2010 at 3:14 pm

can anyone help me as I will be visiting Nagoya in March and instead of bringing one of my bikes I will look at buying a Japanese fixy… and also will be looking at doing some rides if you guys have a fixy group. Gracias
19 Rie - Nagoya // Feb 3, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Hello Alvi, yaaay! we’d love to have you n ride with us! We do lots of fun & weirdooo events in Nagoya.

March 7 – Dance prom party (dress code) Ride start at 5pm.
March 15 – Group ride to shrine for traitional fes.(http://www.flickr.com/photos/25716145@N03/sets/72157615353164631/)

Bike event → http://crankeeblog.blogspot.com/
Bike shop → http://www.circles-jp.com/

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