Friday, September 4, 2009

mashing down on the pedals...

at swap meet last week
forget about tires and the coloring but it has mostly 70's campagnolo parts and some cinelli parts, shinya said excitedly. why? because he used be in the cycle-race team when he was in high school.

shinya & his first practice bike @ the age of 16
1978...

 
he changed the frame.

 shinya's drawing of the bike above
cute autograph...hehehe
it says jan.30th, 1979

 then he painted the frame in willow green.

 
he did ride fixed gear bike for the race.

shinya on the racetrack
1979

 shinya riding pisto
2009


now a days, those guys from san francisco and people all over the country are riding these fixed gear bikes like hell. has anyone watched mash? shinya had tried to do the skid but he said "forget it!!"





a bike gazer at the swap meet this morning


they still had the same bike at the same swap meet and shinya stayed there and stared at it for a while.

6 comments:

DoubleOhTwo said...

Yeah, that's a really nice ride! Shinya rode Keirin! Wow!

shinya kimura said...

DoubleOhTwo: thanks for your comment. i wanted to be a bicycle frame builder during those days. i was riding both bicycles and motorcycles back in the days...

t said...

Forever two wheels!

shinya kimura said...

t: yes, forever!

Travis Perich said...

http://www.speedbicycles.ch/collection_name.html

Hey shinya,
hopefully this link will work but there are some cool bikes in here,
with lotsa closeup shots.

See ya,
TP

shinya kimura said...

travis: hey, travis!! thanks for the link. they are so cool!! see you soon!