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♥

Mick has some more great pics of his travels, including the ones from his Paris Roubaix ride on Ifeellikealittlekid. 15 riders on fixed bikes covering 260km, 53km of that being on cobblestones. Bone shaker.

Gotta love this site, “Hot dudes on Bikes“, hilarious

Via Urban Velo

Robo cog is a new workshop that has recently opened up in Surry hills on the corner of Commonwealth Stand and Campbell St. (at the back of the Spring Court store) It’s an open workshop with tools and workstands and some friendly peeps around to answer any questions you may have.

The guys are putting on a photography competition with some great prizes up for offer. Register at Robo Cog with a photo of you and your best whip and you could be sporting some super new gear.

Robo Cog is open on weekends, Saturday - Sunday from 1-4pm.

Check out Le Pistas photos and post on Robo Cog.

While it’s freezing, snowing or raining in Paris (brrr….), we are trying to find ways to have fun… Here is the result:

credit: Paul Hackmann
More pics here

Here in Toronto we have a group called Critical Sass who likes to shake it up and cheer on people who ride in Critical Mass.  Recently, Dandyhorse asked to have us for a photoshoot to appear in their next issue!  Check out some of the group shots, plus what we look like at Critical Mass.  Can’t wait for warmer weather so we can have those big crowd turnouts again.

Here’s one of our cheers for you:

Three rights make a left, but two wrongs don’t make a right

Just ignore the cops and keep riding your bike!

They might get kinda hostile, but we don’t have to fight.

Two wheels take the lane, it’s the law, it’s our right!

Wear lights, and bells, and act with class.

Only run a red if your ass is in the mass.

Slow it at the front, and speed it at the back.

Keep all this in mind to keep the mass on track.

Bicycles don’t care about your gender, race, or class.

And all ages are welcome to join in the mass.

So here’s our story’s moral, we hope you’ll teach and learn:

All vehicles are equal, just signal when you turn!

Great shot in front of the Sydney Opera House by Matthew Mead.

This is so Rad.

I heard about these two photographers who are working on a project called “I Love My Bike Book” and it sounds super cool. They are traveling to various bike meccas in the US, talking to and taking pictures of cyclists and their beloved bikes. I got a hold of their schedule and it looks like they will be in San Francisco on Jan. 25th and 26th. (score! /can’t wait to show off my bike!)

If these guys are traveling through your city and if you reeeeaaallly really love your bike then you should definitely hit them up and get involved in the project. yay, bike love!

They’ve got a Facebook Page
OR you can send an email to: ilovemybikebook@gmail.com

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Happy New Year Everyone!

It has been a while since my last post reason being I have been away traveling for the last seven months and just got home to Dublin. It is great to be home, after spending the last few months traveling around Asia, Dublin seems a lot less hectic

After saying hello to everyone my first port of call was checking out my bike which had been gathering dust in the garage. I really missed her while I was away! All she needed was a quick pump up of the tires and I was motoring again but I soon realised it was not the weather for cycling in Dublin; it was so cold I nearly froze; I am definitely missing the hot weather I left behind! We’ve had some sever frost and snow over the last few days with temperatures going as low as -10 degrees which has made cycling around the city a bit like cycling on an ice rink!

white on white!

cold!

So unfortunately my bike has gone back into the garage for the time being until the ice melts. Meanwhile I have my feet up by the fire and have started the mammoth task of sorting through seven months of holiday pictures below are some pictures of bicycles that caught my eye in Hanoi, Vietnam.

My bike is better than yours...

Everyone does it, checking out their neighbours bike while waiting for the lights to turn green, I know I do

Hanoi

a lady and her bicycle

These old bikes get a lot of use and abuse but they are so sturdy they look like they could last forever!

a lot of flowers on one bike!