Candy Cranks

I met my best friend Nikon sometimes around 2008, I started shooting the photos of girls on bikes just for fun as my self satisfaction, didn’t know about flickr and any bike websites. One day, I was in a street Keirin race event “Bank-King” sponsored by Circles in Nagoya, I met Yohei, the photographer/editor of a magazine, he said “where can I find your photos you’ve taken?” and I was like “NO WHERE!” then he told me about flickr and I started meeting many people who is fascinating to me all over the world. The bikes and photos unite people and they inspire me a lot. 

So, now I’m able to share of my photos through websites like Candy Cranks, Flickr and anywhere. And yeah, I’m going to be bold to say, I’m in a magazine! It’s COG, yay! I would say COG is more like photographic collection, not like magazine, all photos are very artistic and high quality. I wrote the article about the back stage of Love Wheels Nagoya Calendar and some of my photos are in a page of  the all girl’s alleycat race, THE NADESHIKO CUP (CMWC Tokyo.) It reminds me the greatest time of CMWC 2009 in Tokyo.

Check out the newest issue vol.8 of COG.
Featured stories are Women’s Keirin History/ les six jours de Grenoble/ Empire/ Alex Singer/ Street Gallery, Toronto/ Ed Wonka LaForte/ Christina Peck/ Las Vegas/ 700 CMX Evolution/ CMWC Tokyo/ Los Angeles/ more…

Many thanks to my friend Yohei and all editor of the wonderful magazine COG!

TASTE ME♥

This is Rie from Nagoya, she was at the CMWC with her super cute matching bike and outfit. She was bubblier than a bottle of Verve and and excited to be there. Rie had customised her rims with stickers and her bike has it’s very own freight baggage beer holder.

Prolly goes from busting a few moves, to getting busted! (Sound needed for the video below)

I’m back in Sydney now, I’m certainly going to miss Japan. I had the most amazing time and met so many lovely people. I’ll definitely be going back, I feel like I’ve seen such a small part of a such a varied and beautiful country. I’ve put my CMWC pics on flickr, you can check them out here.

This is Hannan, originally from San Francisco, she took out the female title at the CMWC. She rides an Affinity frame and prefers sprint racing over road racing. Awesome work Hannan!

This is Kim from New York, she came a close second to Hannan in the female Sprints final. Not only fast she had the best set of pins I’ve seen in a while!

More good times at the Worlds on Thursday, headed over to watch the finals of the Skids and Sprint race competitions which had many thrills and spills and drew a huge crowd. Benzy <Melbourne courier> put in a top effort, while Joe <Melbourne courier> displayed some fantastic agility, he managed to sip/skid/stack all without spilling a single drop of his Sapporo, good work Joe!

The highlight of the sprint race had to be The Original Nakenger, a Frenchman who apparently earnt his nickname some years ago in Paris when he threw his kit off and attempted to swim the river Seine with his bike in tow. He obviously made it to get naked on another day, I’ve heard mixed reports on the survival of the bike. Viva La Française! I say. With all the images of naked chicks on bikes flooded all over the internet I say we could do with a few more fit, naked men on bikes!

Awesome day at the CMWC! Tarn and I were cruising along trying to find the venu when we spotted Yuji, a really lovely Tokyo cycle messenger. We got chatting to him and tagged along with him into the venue. There was a massive turnout, Ive met so many really cool people from all over the world, including some home grown Aussie messengers from Sydney and Melbourne. There are so many amazing bikes on display, I dont know where to look next. You can see how much time, thought and design has gone into each of them, so many different colour combos and variations, its like being in a candy store.

I was getting busy taking photos and Tarn had a ride on the new Brooklyn Gangster. We met up with Prolly and and watched him bust some moves.

We ll be heading over to watch the finals today, its been great to see so many girls entered as well, I counted around 10 so far which is awesome.

All the local Tokyo bikes shops have stalls there and I picked up a few things like these sweet anodised, CNC ed brakes with a new patented pulling mechanism. Theyll be going on my new Candy Cranks ride.