Evening all,

Im off to Tokyo at the end of the summer for a mixture of business and pleasure. Anyone got any good shops / places to go to find fixed paraphanelia ? I know it was pretty big there when i used to live there a few years back but i was still skating around on my bauer turbos and bmx when i was there. Now im the proud owner of a custom condor pista and am hooked! Want to check out there scene there. Any insider tips greatly welcomed.
Cheers chaps and chapettes

Carnival for pure fixed craziness, its between harajuku and shibuya. Also check out tsukumo cycle sports the makers of kalavinka frames. Wanna bring some stuff back for me??!!

Watch out for the police... they'll take on anyone!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLIlARgTz4

Such a classic

Thanks very much for the tips. Will check it out for sure. Thinking of starting an exclusive japanese fixed gear bicycle shop.... COuld bring some SMALL bits back at a request.
Any more insider tips bring em on.

The police are brilliant in Tokyo. I got pulled over by three cop cars and a policeman on a bicycle when i was riding with a friend on a crappy 50cc honda zapp scooter. Aparently you cant ride 50cc or below with a passenger. So bloody stupid! We were treated like criminals! I went in one cop car ancd my friend in the over (in the middle of a major intersection) - traffic was stopped and there was a huge pandamonium. We were secretly laughing inside! Went to the police station and went to separate rooms. We had just arrived in tokyo for a 3 year stint and had only been at language school a week so knew close to bugger all. Pans out the the cops have f-all to do in tokyo as real crime is too scary for them and its run by the Yakuza. So, big crime of the year (2 lads on a clapped out scooter) meant that they got their quota! My mate ended up being asked what kind of food he liked and all about the beetles (he's got a bit of a hippy Lenon look about him) and i played dominos for 2 hours with a bored young cop. When they dropped me home at my x girlfriends place to find out her dad was a big international lawyer and spoke better japanese them, they proceeded to bow and grovel like i'd never seen before. It was just too brilliant!