FIXED GEAR IN TOKYO (4)

Quite beautiful week-end here in Tokyo. Saturday I took the fixie for a ride. I first took it in a bag for about 20mn of train from Yokohama to Ôsaki.
You just need to put it in a bag to be allowed to bring it with you. I use my road race bike front wheel which is easier to remove.



It's a Campagnolo Zonda :). It was also the last day for the brake lever original set-up. As I use it only in fixed mode (I have a flip-flop hub), I removed the rear brake (but I will always keep the front brake).



From there I followed the Meguro River (目黒川) for a while.



The season of the Hanami is almost finished and sakura are losing their flowers in a nice "snowing" style.

It even covers the river from place to place.





A bridge designed by Eiffel... hum... whatever...



Meguro Kawa Sakura Matsuri, written on the right : Cherry Blossom festival of Meguro (Black eye) River. Each lantern represents a business of the neighborhood, this one is the "Furuyama Dentist Clinic"'s lantern.

Ok enough for the site seeing for now, let's go back to some fixed gear stuff;)

Following the Meguro river and then the yamate dori (a road) I arrived to the place of my job in Shibuya Ku! I was surprised at it was a first with the bike on this way. (I did not know exactly where I was going... yeah a great adventure :)

So I went straight to Dreamworks Cycle which is 2 minute from Samurai Factory's office. Dreamworks Cycle is a tiny shop but almost a museum! The owner who also supports for technical stuff the Sexon Super Peace shop (just one street away), was busy to mount a nice fixed gear. His stuff is mainly from Europe, oldies but VERY goodies things!





You can't really notice it on this picture but this beautiful pist bike is a junior model coming from Italia, Torino :





If you are in Tokyo looking for collector items from Europe, it's definitely a place to go.









This brake lever is hand made by the shop's owner.



Then after a break for a late lunch under the sakura of Yoyogi parc, I decided to go to the Blue Lug shop and checked their handle bars and brake lever.

Here are few shots of their items, they have much more (and also a good clothes corner).







These handle bars are damn heavy! Stainless!... not for me.







I almost bought this nice Nitto bar, really light... Maybe next time...

In front of the shop : mmmmm nice!







Chain ring on the left...



Funny handle bar.

This time I just bought this "one shot" brake lever (about 4800 yens - Gran Compe).



I mounted it this morning, here is my new set-up!









And to finish with, not related at all, a shot of Godzilla :



yes we can see him from time to time roaming in the streets of Tokyo ;-)

2009-04-12 08:09:49