By Tomity, I am preparing tomorrow's flea market. Tokyo http://homepage.mac.com/tomity/ Oct 15, 2009 17:34:38

I will go to there!!
See you at Sekidobashi.
Ride Safe!!

Keirin ambassador
Tomity

By Jérôme, Tokyo http://www.jeromesadou.com Oct 15, 2009 18:49:23

Hi Tomity San!
Thanks for the comment and it will be great to meet you tomorrow!

[I saw you on fyxomatosis.com :-) ]

By baroccogiapponese, dreaming Ikebukuro http://www.baroccogiapponese.com/blog/ Oct 15, 2009 19:04:16

I'm planning to go too! I hope I can make it!

By suwi, http:// Oct 16, 2009 03:40:41

When is a good time to show up at the market?

By Jérôme, Waiting for kawaifu ... Daikanyama, mermaid café http://www.jeromesadou.com Oct 16, 2009 04:34:58

It depends, if you are looking for something special you want to buy, I would say the earlier is the better (before 8 maybe), if it is just to walk around I would advise anyway the morning before 9. Around 11 it is getting crowded if I remember well.

By ​basmaipim, Bangkok, Thailand http://duckfixed.blogspot.com/ Oct 17, 2009 02:53:30

Sekido Bashi Flea Market.
18 Oct 2009?

By Jérôme, busy busy busy :) Home http://www.jeromesadou.com Oct 17, 2009 02:58:24

Hello there,

Nope, it was today, this morning from 6AM (it starts way ealier than I thought)

By Tomity, http://homepage.mac.com/tomity/ Oct 17, 2009 11:51:29

HI Jerome san,
It was gerat meeting you yesterday at Sekidobashi.
We shared happy time.

My camera broke and the photograph was not able to be taken.
Please send me some photograph.

Ride safe!!

Keirin ambassador
Tomity

By Jérôme, Making paper items... Kamaya Cho http://www.jeromesadou.com Oct 17, 2009 17:14:17

おはようございます！

I will send you some photos by mail tonight, and this week I will write an article for the blog :)

本当に楽しかったです。また今度！

By ma-nadesu, Student Tokyo http:// Oct 17, 2009 19:09:21

Jerome-

First, your blog is wonderful. Really- it is! You provide great info about many things that would otherwise go unnoticed. Thank you!

I am devastated to read about the Sekido Bashi Flea Market two days too late. I've been trying to find this type of event ever since I got here in September.

I'm dying to get on the road, but as I am a poor research student living in Tokyo, I have limited funds. So, I was wondering- do you have any advice on how I can procure a used bicycle? Ideally, I would love to join the single-speed/fixie craze, but understand that as it's in full boom I probably won't find any steals. Maybe a used high quality road bike would work? Fuji, Miyata or Nishiki?

Thank you for your time.

By Jérôme, Still making some paper items :) Still at home http://www.jeromesadou.com Oct 17, 2009 20:52:42

Thanks for your comment, too bad you read my blog too late ;-) Indeed, fixies are not cheap... But, you can find pist bike frames at prices starting at around 30000 yen (I've seen some yesterday in a shop near Yoyogi station) but then I don't know what is your budget...

You have also the option to buy a second hand fuji for example, I guess it's possible to find some at less than 40000 yen (full mounted bike this time ). But if your budget is about 15000/20000 yen...it will be tuffer.

Moreover one paramater is important : your height... for example I am 182 cm tall and use 56cm frames... Pist bike with that size are less numerous and then more expensive (often) :/