Sunday, September 20, 2009

Living large in Tokyo. Gained a level of relaxation.

Tokyo navigation at night. AAAAAHHHHHH! Thank-you Tokyo police for helping me complete my turn-around-fest. Along the way I spotted these Tokyo schoolgirls perched on there bikes, stable as can be with their triangle stands. Licking ice cream.


Sunto (aka "Santa"), Chie's boyfriend, my co-host. They've got very animated turtles. Bike mechanic, excellent strip-tease track stander, very gracious host.


This is Chie, my awesome host and tour-guide. Chie is a friend of a friend of Xtracycle (Thanks Ross!!). Chie makes really nice messenger bags in a quaint studio above a Japanese antique shop, within a lovely alley-way maze. And I do mean maze.


Chie took me to her friend's frame shop. They call him "Brandy". He works in a 9X9 shop that is so fully-functional: mechanic-ing, machine-ing, brazing, welding. Very tidy. Reminds me of Tony Pereira's shop.


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