I have waited a long time for this.

I am having a hard time searching for the right things to write from anxiety and nervousness. I had a draft already, but it didn’t feel right to me so I’m just going to write what I’m feeling right this moment.

I am write about a bike. A new bike, but somehow feels like it’s been around for a long time.

Introducing the T.I.E 

One man’s ideas, dreams, memories and passion turned into a delusion.

That delusion slowly became a thought with some logical sense.

After failing quietly many times, but kept on believing that there’s a possibility, kept on trying and eventually became structured after putting a lot passion into it.

It’s just that sort of a bike frame.

That man would be myself.

I can honestly say my life has been turned upside down by bicycles. I find myself thinking, “I’ve just drifted along, carried by the sheer joy of it all, until I ended up here.”

I’ve always dreamed of being “somebody” in the industry. After pursuing the joy from bcicyles at my own pace, has now led me to design a bicycle.

It was a big dream that I have had since I started getting into bicycles

The 20 years from the start of my passion towards bicycles til today, I lived my life in a city called Tokyo.

Living each day while sensing changes in my surroundings and myself, I sometimes found myself reflecting on those days when I simply let myself drift along with many bicycle cultures.

Despite all the trends that came and went, I realized this city’s bicycle culture is pretty chaotic, and I’ve always been right in the middle of it.

It felt like I was just someone with no backbone, a “POSER” like my skateboarder friends would say.

For someone who always believed those who went all out and were all about that life were the coolest, I felt like I was becoming the very type of person I’d always looked down on.

It took time for me to convince myself that it was not an excuse or giving up, but I thought if I could refine this “poser thing” into a tangible form, like a child growing while developing its sense of self, it might become a new beginning. That’s how this project started.

The “TIE” in the logo represents discovery and anticipation, that moment when zero becomes one.

My goal for this project was to make my own version of  a BIKE for TOKYO.

It has some details and characteristics that are needed to rip though the streets of this city where time somehow feels faster.

However…

I may get some backlash by saying you’d get bored of living only in the city, and I wondered if I could make this bike into something that people can get a little taste of riding off road and a building it in a way you don’t have to rush. I’ve tuned and added a few gimmicks that could help the rider’s daily lives and the ability to swap characteristics, I was able to encapsulate the chaotic Tokyo I envisioned. One that can be expressed in so many ways into a single frame.

Whether it’s skidding and eating shit on concrete or messing around on dirt, eating shit and laughing crazy while your rib starts to hurt, these things are sometimes what makes riding fun.

On or off pavement, I just want you to find what you like to ride. I believe I can help your favorite type of riding with this single speed frame.

Oh, I almost forgot. I also added this little fun feature that doesn’t help with the practicality what so ever.

I’m hoping this will make your cycling life more fun.

I don’t want to start a sales talk after writing so much about myself and there are so many information about specs and all that in this world that makes you not want something before even looking at the actual thing, so I’m just going to wrap up this post soon.

I would be stoked if someone became intuitively curios.

If you’d really like to know the specs, here they are

The frames will be available in all four store locations from Nov 30th (Sun)

BUT, I will be launching them in the 29th at the…

Wild Wild Warehouse Event at the Blue Lug warehouse.

I’m just going to be at the booth explaining about the frame to people who are interested.

Take it easy guys