Afa's Golden Vivalo

So hot, like it's 2007 all over again!

Vivalo CX Special

That tasty Vivalo CX Special frame built up. Bad photo but lovely looking bike nonetheless.

Via Re:Products - Vivalo 

Vivalo Cyclocross Special

Just came across photos of this sweet custom fixed / single speed cyclocross frame by Kusaka-san and his newly re-launched Vivalo-brand. There was that Kinfolk "Urban Bike" built also by Kusaka already but the fact that more and more of these keep popping up everywhere indicates that dedicated steel sscx frames are becoming the thing to be riding. And why not?

See the whole photoset here.

EDIT. And this, it's bit different, though...

RE:Products Project -> VIVALO Reborn

It seems that Kusaka-san's Vivalo brand has been relaunched in Japan. No traces of Keirin track bikes on the site at the moment though, just traditional steel road bikes instead.

As my Japanese skills are bit rusty for the moment Google Translate tells us, somewhat cryptically:

"VIVALO lineup was only ever full order frames. This time, experience the handmade chromoly frame more people If you think please, let me hang the frame in addition to the lineup Submitted.

Even if the frame hanging, size 8 size and color from 3 colors You can choose. In addition, Comfort Space, Mr. EAST RIVER CYCLES Hutte 8to8's three stores, the original color of each shop And let me also available. So, you can choose from six colors.

 All geometries have been referring to the load frame produced so far I was allowed to DRESSCODE designed from scratch. Please come and look here for the first time the real chromoly frame? ! !"


For more info: http://www.vivalo.jp/

Kinfolk "Urban Bike"

This is apparently a Kinfolk "Urban Bike" built by Kusaka-san but with those canti brakes and fat knobby tyres it appears to me more like an old school single speed cyclocross bike. Which I can certainly dig (despite the pretty awful looking handlebar+stem combo).

Check out KinfolkBicycleCo here in case you're not already familiar with them.

Kinfolk!

Kinfolk - Nike "Tied Together" Relay Race Bike Doc (Nike Stadium Version) from frantic studio on Vimeo.

Kinfolk Bicycles Ad

This appears to be an Ad for Kinfolk Bicycles, for which I have lots of love. Say what you will but I dig the classic style of their frames and the builds too.

Also, mad respect for popping wheelies in the traffic with those narrow unwrapped B123s, man. However, I got one question: what's up with missing the other grip...?

Chrome Kinfolk

Super nice clean & classic build of an all-chromed Kinfolk. All of the Kinfolk frames built by Kusaka-san just look so good.

Pic from here.

Kinfolk Road Bike

You already probably saw this everywhere but it is nice so I'm posting it too. Apparently it's the first road bike Kusaka-san built under the Kinfolk brand. Clean and classic. But remember also that this is not the first road bike he has built.

See the whole Flickr photoset here.

Kusaka-san Built It

Kusaka-san built it. I'm riding it. Thanks Ken!

Baby Vivalo

From Aki Makoto's blog again. Arigato!

Vivalo MiniVelo

Vivalo minivelo spotted at Akiya_M's blog, here.

Jesse's Very Speedy Kinfolk Bicycle Project

Kinfolk Bicycle Project from Jesse Carmody on Vimeo.

Kinfolk Bicycles

I already posted about these but head over to their site, the bikes look mad nice.

"As many of you know, The Ways&Means team has been working on something very special for the past year. And after lots of teasing and sneak previews...It's ready for the public. Kinfolk bicycles are finally for sale. We are really stoked to be working with Kusaka, master frame builder from kansai, japan. It is a real honor that he would choose us to represent his 4 decades of crafting these awesome bicycles. Our goal was simply to produce the bike we would be excited to ride, and I think we knocked it out of the park. We hop you think so too. In addition to Kusaka's beautiful steel, we also offer paint by America's finest bicycle painters, Coat of Portland, Oregon,and ColorFactory, based on the beautiful Jersey Shore. The design is what you would expect from Ways&Means, and to top it all off, we have a classy headbadge designed by our main man, Marco Hernandez, of Lit Fuse tattoo in Beautiful Olympia, WA. Good times.

We have lots of new stuff coming over the summer. We're building a collaboration bike with the Bike shop Chari&Co. that is gonna be hot! So stay tuned.

Enough talk though... head over to www.kinfolkbicycles.com and see them for yourself. And even if you're not in the market for a custom track bike, spread the word. It's the support of our friends that has got us this far, and we appreciate all of the help, motivation, advice,and interest that you all have given us. That's why we called this project Kinfolk. It's all about family."

Juliet's Vivalo

I had to steal these images from Pedal Consumption, sorry guys.

It's Juliet Elliot's Vivalo, it's very lovely, and I have a thing for Vivalos because I myself happen to have a silver/grey one. 

Kinfolk Bicycle Co // Kusaka-San

The Kinfolk Bicycle Co. boys in Tokyo have a new webpage open for ordering those nice custom track frames, hand-built with love by Kusaka-san in Kansai, Japan. "Keirin Inspired Track Frames". I like that. And I also had to post below two pics of the master building in his workshop. 

Two last pics are stolen from Akiya_M's excellent Vivalo Flicrk set. Arigato!