Candy Cranks

*Happy Valentine’s Day everybody*

I always wished to make people happy with my hand brewed coffee on bike. My dream has come true on Valentine’s Day!

Charinco (Bicycle) + Rie = CharRie’s

HAHA… I’ve been studying hand brewed coffee techniques at a local café and tought it would be cool to serve to my friends and customers at Circles which is my favorite bike shop in Nagoya and has a big influence on my life. The owner of Circles let me use a little space for setting up my bike café as a Valentine’s special event.  I always make miracles at Circles so I did it! I sold out 100 cups of coffee at the 1st day, yaaaaay!

Rum Ball & Gateau Chocolat made by Izumi & Rie

*Thank you for coming*

￥300 with chocolate treats (￥200 for a Refill)

Hand made milk caps.

Wrapping cube sugar.

CharRie's bike café totally matching the colors with Circles.

Circles offered me to do this every Sunday starting on March 7th *Thank You*.  I have a crazy friend “Crankee“, he invented his BBQ SURLY, we will put our bike kitchen toghether next time!

 I have a confidence with my coffee, it is actually soo GOOD!! Please stop by Circles in Nagoya and say hello to my coffee bike when you ever get a chance to visit Japan.

Thanks a lot to Circles and everyone who stopped by and had my coffee, to all my great friends who supported to put me up and had awesome happy time together.

*Have a happy coffee*

More pics → HERE!

I’ve been lazy and just finished sorting out my great memories of bike trip to Australia. I miss the weather back thereee, it is snowing here in Nagoya today, awwwww! so I would like to share some pics of my holidays to keep warm here like the sumer time…

Riding in Melbourne is great. It’s really flat and everything is close together so it is easy to ride around.

I went to see my friends there. I met these lovely messengers at CMWC Tokyo.

The funniest guys in Melbourne! Gotta see Brian & Lane if you are ever around there. They know how to throw a party. It is really great to have cool friends all over the world.

Melbourne was over 37℃, I was just about sit down in the shade of a tree… then 2 guys on bikes came up and said “Are you Brian’s friend?” I was like “Yeees…” Mmmm, I recognized him by his dread locks hair from CMWC tokyo. We didn’t know each other, he is from Dublin and Im from Nagoya but we start getting some drinks and became friends. It was just an accident that we met in Melbourne but it happens when you ride a bicycle!

For New Years Party…

Swimming in the living room!?

OMG these guys were so hilarious! They have a swimming pool in the living room, RAD!!!

Ausie BBQ

Exploring the city...

Lots of good coffee shops in Fitzroy

NUTS! tee & Love Wheels Nagoya Calendar. *Thank you*

Thanks a lot  to everyone who made my trip so much fun, to all the great people I met who helped me out, put me up and showed me an awesome time. All the things made me want to move into Australia more. Im definitely coming back soon. See ya!

Don't stop! GO TRAVEL THE WORLD!

My Bike Journey to Sydney → HERE!

More pics of Melburn → HERE!

Hello mate! I went to travel around Sydney & Melbourne with my best friend Nikon & NISHIKI for my holidays. It is summer time there, Gotta Go now!

My biggest reason to come out to Sydney was…

Meg and Tarn

“MEET THE MEG!”

Tarn, Rie and Meg

As you can expect through the Candy Cranks blog, Meg is one of the greatest and nicest people you ever meet! I met Meg at CMWC Tokyo and became great friends. I didn’t know anyone in Sydney but thanks Meg! Candy Cranks screwed up my courage to make a lot of new friends in Sydney and all over the globe!

Meg and her partner are so kind and took me a lot of cool places. They’ve got their own work space for bikes hidden the back stage of the Sydney Theater Company, looks soo sick! I was riding my bike on the stage as an actress in front of NO audience, hehe… (Rie in Sydney by Meg)

Cross Sydney Harbor Bridge by bike

on Sydney Harbor Bridge

Emily and Rie

★Emily's Candy Cranks★

Sydney Sunday Nite Crew

Group Riding

Emily & J just found this warehouse, so D O P E...

Sydney Sunday Nite Crew

Great to see messengers working in the city!

Ausie burger is HUGE!!

I like riding in the city to explore bikes and coffee. It is the best way to feel the local culture, I think★

I am a big fan of her blog btw…

Traveling with bicycle is really amazing… 

Bicycle leads me to meet great people. I like Japanese proverb;

一期一会(Ichigo-Ichie)： Treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.

I was so impressed that people in Australia are so nice and friendly. Also Wine, Beer and Coffee are absolutely my type of taste. I will definitely move in this year!

Thanks to Meg, Tarn, Emily, J, Sydney Sunday Crew and messengers. It was great to meet u all! Awesome time. Cheers Sydney!

More pics HERE!

Viva Candy Cranks! I can’t thank you enough for sharing this. I have received lots of wonderful comments through this awesome blog. It is amazing and impressive! I hope everyone of you enjoy our 1st virgin stage here…

Konnichiwa! I’m a leader of Gacharinco! - the 1st fixed gear bicycle dance team in Japan. We just wanted to have fun with dancing and bicycle together!

Music + Bikes + Dancing = three of my favorite things!

All you need it. Ride on★

The NUTS! held the Early halloween Alley cat race a couple of weeks ago. We usually have a monthly alley cat race every 3rd Saturday. It was a little bit early halloween party but many of the riders came dressed in their Halloween best and riding around Nagoya city, was super fun!

Happy Beer - Homemade Brewery

*Happy Halloween*

I just wanted to share with you our one of the greatest bike event in Nagoya called NUTS!FES. I am a part of organizer of this event. The 1st NUTS! FES. in 2008 was a blast. Music, Camping, Socials, Friends, all brought together by Bicycle. Last year’s pics here. 

An open air festival aimed at raising awareness about pollution global warming, deforestation and other ecological issues. But this is a different kind of music fest because in this world of fast food fast cars and instant convenience, you can only entry by Bicycle!  We’ve also got organic food & beer, funny races, gold sprint, alley cat, girls bike dance… +more. And group ride from Nagoya City to the event location.

BICYCLE FRIENDS FOREVER!

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! 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!

more photos here

Konnichiwa everyone!  Im starting to spinning around fun pics & stuff from my home town Nagoya.  Here are some pics of whats happening with fixie girls in Nagoya.

Yukata Riders: These girls wearing Japanese summer kimono “yukata” and raced alleycat NUTS!

NUTS! Girls: We love going cafe-hopping!

Group riding 22km to NUTS!FES. (Rave/Cycling/Fun-Fest)

The girl(?) singing at messenger’s wedding party.

I love photography of girls on bike and have lots of fun on bike events, alleycat races, keirin race, bike trips and +more.  If you have a chance to trip to Japan, stop by Nagoya and join us in fun ride!

Cheers!