Yuki's Purple Ride

Yuki and her new ride

The beautiful Yuki (featured in the Nagoya Love Wheels Calendar as Miss. January) recently picked up her new ride at Circles Bike Shop. The frame is a standard Omnium track frame by Giant. The crank set is a SRAM Omnium. Shin Tanaka of Circles did the custom paint job himself. A nice two tone purple paint job with masking tape. It really changes the whole look of the bike and you can tell from Yuki's smile that she just loves it. Yuki plans to race her new bike in next month's Bang King track race at the Ishikawa Uchinada Velodrome. Good luck Purple Mama!

Sram Omnium Crank set

Circles Logo

Nagoya to Kyoto in a Day!

Wasn't sure what I was getting into when I agreed to join the Love Wheels Nagoya Calendar Girls for a ride to Kyoto city from Nagoya. After all, it's only 45 minutes on the Bullet train right? Well, what takes 45 minutes on a super fast locomotive took us 15 hours on a mixture of road, touring and fixed gear bicycles. I've cycled across France so I'm no novice to long distance cycling, but 15 hours on the saddle (even if it's a Brooks saddle) is just inhumane. When we finally arrived at the Kyoto guest house at 9:00 PM, we had just enough energy in us to soak up at the bath house and grab a quick bite before passing out on our futons. Needless to say, I will never try that again.

5:00 AM early start and no idea what awaited us.

Crossing the Kiso River

Mmmm. A quick mid morning snack.

Justin & Señor Crankee

A little bicycle CPR

Maki trying to fly to Kyoto

A late night stop at a popular cycling cafe in Kyoto

Breakfast: Brown rice and veggie curry

Contemplating the day's ride

Cutie Emi posing in front of the guest house

Riding the streets of Kyoto

Stopping for directions

A nice little fixer-upper

One of many temples in Kyoto

Unique cycling shoes in the fashion of Japanese Jikatabi shoes

Sou Sou le coq sportif cycling fashion shop

Two Kyoto beauties waiting to enter a restaurant

The youngest member of the group: Keisuke celebrates his 17th birthday

Kyoto, land of the geishas

Canadian foot fetish

A Canadian custom

There's only one thing I enjoy more than cycling, and that is getting free cycling stuff. The cultured and highly advanced Canadians running the PezCycling News site were kind enough to send me a pair of their branded cycling socks (unused, odor-free). The socks are a Canadian way of saying thanks for allowing them to use some photos from my Love Wheels Nagoya Calendar. I like Canadians, in fact, I have quite a few Canadian friends here in Japan. They can always be counted on for helping you move furniture or when you're in need of a quick self deprecating humor fix. The custom of gifting socks in exchange for sexy girlie photos has its origins in the long harsh winters of the Saskatchewan plains. Early settlers and beaver hunters would pass the long winters stuffing their wool socks with pages from the bloomers & pantaloons sections of the Sears Roebuck catalog. In addition to preventing frostbite, the pages were thawed out in the summer and exchanged for new socks at the local general store. I love history. And Canadians.

Final call for the Love Wheels Nagoya Calendar

Mica - Miss August

I have less than 15 Nagoya Love Wheels Cycling Calendars left. I want to get rid of them by the end of this month. Don't be the only kid on the block without a cycling calendar brimming with young perky Japanese girls and their rides. Order 5 copies and get a sweet discount. Remember, shipping is FREE....anywhere on god's green earth! Order Here.

Purrrfect combination

Hello Kitty

It seems that the only thing that will distract a cycling enthusiast more than a sparkling new Vanilla track bike is a hot Asian girl riding one. Which is a good thing since it means I'll be selling more Nagoya Love Wheels 2010 calendars, which incidentally have been selling like mad. In the last two weeks, I've shipped calendars to Finland, Thailand, and every place in between. Just about every continent now has a copy of the Love Wheels Nagoya Calendar. Local cycling beauty Emi (pictured above) has told me that she will not bathe until every bike pedaling primate has ordered a copy of the calendar and slobbered all over her photo (she's miss March by the way). Still lots in stock. So do us all a favor and help Emi clean up her act. Order your Calendar now!

Merry Friggin Christmas!

To all my fellow cycling miscreants and degenerates, Señor Crankee wishes you all a very merry Christmas and a happy Festivus (you know...for the rest of us). And don't forget to order a Love Wheels Nagoya Calendar to help keep track of all the days you promised to go out cycling but stayed home instead to watch reruns of The Bachelor.....looser.

Merry Friggin Christmas!

Nagoya Chicks on bikes! 2010 Cycling Calendar

The ever active and pretty Riebo is busy putting the finishing touches to the Love Wheels Nagoya - 2010 Bicycle Calendar. The calendar will feature pictures of some of our local girls posing suggestively with their bicycles. These calendars are sure to sell fast (I've reserved a few copies for myself). Riebo included a section on the back of the calendar for sponsor ads. One spot is only 5000 YEN (about $50) and you get two free copies of the calendar. There are still a few spots left, so if you have a business or website you'd like to promote in Japan (or abroad...we think this baby is going to be popular all over the map), email Riebo at lovewheelsnagoya@yahoo.com and reserve your spot. Deadline for ads is November 30.