Bye-bye, former JIS katakana spelling
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Category: Articles & Blog
Articles and blog posts about bikes and whatnot.
Pump Track Circuit begins
A few good fellas and I are starting to organize new bike race events. It’s a pump track race, just like the worldwide Red Bull event that stopped by Akaigawa, Hokkaido a few years ago. There are three events planned for this season. Last weekend saw the first of the series, held at Rukochi Park […]
April Fools followup
Just found out that a surprising number of people actually believed in the new product release we published a week ago, so here is the follow-up. First thing first, we are making the new product. Design is done and ready. However the Corona craze in the industry doesn’t allow it as factories are fully occupied. […]
Facelift on Tanatos!
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The day Ayumu Hirano saved the world
The Beijing Olympics was full of events. I mean surprising amount of events involving not only athletes’ performances and violations but also organizer’s faults and misconduct. Take figure skater Kamila Valieva, for example. Her case seems to be too multifaceted to digest or even to comment on, like, why was she allowed after testing positive […]
Happy New Year 2022!
Happy New Year! We hope this new year brings lots of fun and joy to you all. Masaki Kusahara, NSP
Concrete and Okonomi-yaki
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What makes a BMX/MTB course beautiful?
Been seeing people, and somehow ending up discussing bike trail building with all of them this weekend. With objectives varying from BMX race tracks, pump tracks and dirt jump trails for BMX and MTB, and even MTB crosscountry race course that hosted a national level event this past Saturday. The overall conclusion every time was […]
Questionable linguistic ability of city office
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May for Maintenance
First of which happened on April 5, when an ordinary fall off the skateboard turned into a disaster because my foot was shaken up good inside the safety shoes I happened to be wearing, resulting in the big toe bone broken into pieces. Then on April 17, I sprained the left thumb and index finger […]