For your eyes only !

This is a little bit of a secret project ...
With Orange being the new Green I thought that Plywood might just be the new carbon ...
Anyway regardless of what a famous theif said to me once...
'that the pioneer always gets an arrow in the back...'
I will continue with this project and hope that one day I will be able to ride this Fixed Wheel Flat Bar creation, in resin coated sepia yellows and tans, through the streets of Harajiku weaving awake of coolness in my path...



The sepia colored *blue print...


Embronic stage 1

Underbelly, thats 100mph tape at work !!

Steam bending over the rice cooker thingy ...

Some of the 50something parts being persuaded to play the game.

BB glueup

Any idea's on rim color at this stage???

The Won Bok - Bike connection again ...what's going on ??!!

Tatami framed frame...

Pressure

Cycle Tragic !!!

Just can't help myself .... A Cycling High Priest with bad clothing sense or just another sage?

Cannungra Outpost Cafe 7am Sunday here I come !!!!

What do you think Cloudbase ? Are you in on this one... I can see a pillion seat and pegs on this ...they'll throw there keys away and walk home....green !!

Copper plate and Hickory, cane rims ....mmmm
Can't wait to see the patina Chip ...

Back to Japan...Shinjiku

White tyres, red lock, puke colored Fixed wheel flat bar cocktail....

No bar tape fixed wheeled coolness in ghosty silvery grey ! What Next ???

Harajiku New York styled Hipster that's what!

For the under-educated .... thats a white Aero Spoke upfront and a high profile rim anodised *blue* fixed rear with a spoke card.... Track Stand please !!!

Monster Bike outside the Fixedwheel bike shop in Harajiku ....Ironic paradox or sheer brilliance ???

White Green Red local ride in Odawara ... thank god some style has hit the joint

I'm yours...

Kerin Pro buddy overtaking me on the way up Ashigara Pass ....I stayed with him....but he was on a trak bike !!

Recent convert cutting his/her teeth, don't dispare Xmass is just around the corner

Mavic Yellow or Matillic Pink ? I cant decide ...needs a wheel rack though !!

Grey and white always go well together... who rides such a statement?

Sweet Mavic combo

Monkey territory on Shodoshima Island

Free Ferry ...

Back to more tragic stuff !!

Spoke cards high rimed colored chain masterpiece....yeh?

Seriously worked spokes highlighting a pencil thin fork line in green ...Hey I'm starting to get this fashion thing Tracy...!!!

Inland Sea - Naoshima Island

Naoshima is a small island with more than its fair share of Art installations...
There is a famous Modern Art Gallery that is best seen to be belived.
Here are some pieces scattered around the island as a warm up for the gallery....

This dude is waiting out side the Gallerys Hotel which is worth a stay when the yen rate is favourable...

How did they get the sun to set right between the islands...??

Roll on Roll Off .... just the way I like it !

Art ?

Ironic sunset?

Yurt hurt .... if only the yen rate was better !!!

Bridge.... Now this is a bridge

Here is a pic from a bus going over to northern Shikoku Island from Kobe...
Its a fucking big bridge!!! Thats a bulk carrier about to go under it...


Hey wake up Pete..!!!

Heres part of the elevated Hwy from Osaka to Kobe ...off the ground all the way with the odd bridge or tunnel ...

The Long and Winding road !!

After the Shimanami Bridge Ride what better ride could you have than the 2,000m high run on ‘Ishizushi Mt Skyline Drive’
The photos don’t do it justice… a little too much attention was needed getting up the thing !!! But I’m pleased I did it …. And pleased that the hotel at the top was open and had a room for us.

I've seen the light ...

Where's my holiday??

Sweet roads ....

Hope you like switchbacks ??

The closest thing to heven ...

Those lower Mt ranges are probably 1000m high...

Shimanami Bridge Shuffle

This is quite an amazing ride if you have time.
Its a succession of bridges linking a bunch of islands across the Japanese Inland sea between mainland Honshu and Shikoku Island…

Don’t quote me but its about 80km across and comprises 5 or so bridges. The bridge in this pic is actually 3 bridges linked together several kilometers long. You can see the massive pylons off in the distance.
It has its own cycle way and carries little traffic… the views are amazing and just check the cycleway ramps to get on and off the thing …now that infrastructure !!!



Shimanami Cycling road... linking some of the bridges

One of several bridges linking the islands.

Somewhere on the way ...

The blessed ferry ...

Somewhere else along the way...

On one bridge the cycleway is under the road deck...the lane on the right is for >125cc motorbikes

This is the cyclist Hotel at the Shikoku Island end ...well worth a stay.... it has a great onsen and you are welcome to bring your bikes into your room ...how civilized.

Another bridge

Toy Land

The 'bridge' on the right is actually the on /off ramp to one of the Shimanami bridges!!! That's amazing cycling facilities don't you think?

Another clover leaf for cyclist and walkers....

The girls at the cyclist hotel...

The worlds out there ... Ride all over it !!!