Articles and blog posts about bikes and whatnot.
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 […]
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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 […]
There is one ultimate truth that applies to everything and anything, from science and technology to sports and arts, which is that “simple is raddest as long as the results are the same.” The shorter the code is, the better made a computer program is. A sport equipment with fewer components is much cooler than […]
Wishing you all a fun and fruitful year… Well let’s make it happen together. NSP President/Rider Masaki KUSAHARA
Debuted on Insta rather recently. You’ll see more frequent updates there if you care. It’s only my personal account so it’s not all about bikes, but well, the same can be said about this blog… Most of my recent IG posts are about mods on my beloved Red Rocket, the ex-fire truck, because that’s what […]
I went to the pump track in Akaigawa Village on the last day of August. That’s where the Japanese qualifier for the Red Bull Pump Track World Championship was held. (Read through to the end if you enjoy tech stuff, or just watch the clip below if you don’t care) That event two years ago […]
Re-posting this article that got lost during web server reconfiguration yesterday. As I’ve been enjoying dirt jumping more than ever, and with other locals getting better and better, we have perfect ingredients for dirt jump trains lately. Last Sunday saw another session of this kind, with Sawada-kun on a similar bike to mine leading, me […]
Editor’s note: This post is all about how the word “roll” is misused in Japan in bike riding contexts such as in MTB and BMX short track riding. Hence, it would actually be totally pointless if I tried to translate the whole article to English, While “to roll” means to stay on the ground over […]