My Bikelore experience and demo Evasion

I’d like to start off with thanking everybody who came to Bikelore!

I only went to the event on the second day, but I really enjoyed it. I was so stoked to see everybody that showed up to our booth.

We had a product booth, test ride booth and a Bike Friday booth. We went big this time.

I didn’t really have the time to see the bike races and the other booths, but I know the event was blowing up.

The parking space was packed and the camp sight was filled with people. Three race tracks were added this year. Insane.

I was mind blown after seeing the photos that our photographers took.

Here’s some pics of the One Shot Race hosted by Kaneyan. 150 people signed up for the race.
Huge respect to Kaneyan for organizing the race with this many people.

Melo, the young gun raced three different races in one day. That’s really impressive.

Fergus Tanaka from Ritchey came to Japan for this event. Read about him HERE

Guess what? He won the Delivery Race!

The manifest was only available in Japanese and it was his first time coming to the event, but he conquered the race like a boss.

I headed out to the event at the end of day one after work.
I had my Evasion repainted and I finally rebuilt this bike with dynamo light.

Arakawa in the midnight was so scary. There’s no one around and you suddenly end up in a dead end.

I stopped looking back after a couple hours. I focused on keeping my eyes on the road ahead.

The venue of the event was already pitch black, but some of the homies thankfully found me.

There I was in the camp sight. The Scandinavian style campfire and the cup ramen saved my life.

（Flossing in camp. Respect.）

One of the people who I met road this crazy Frank The Welder touring bike. This bike was so sick.

I love this article about the Alumalith (which was welded by FTW) by Ultraromance. You can kinda get an idea of what they’re workshop looks like.

Been a while since I last slept in a tent. I heard that it was going to be freezing so I prepared. I was able to sleep without feeling cold, all thanks to these pants.

I also learned that pannier bags were very useful. I’m thinking of going on bikepacking trips more next year. Hit me up if you got a ride planned!

Okay, enough with Bikelore.

Here’s a new Evasion build I worked on for the shop.

Small frame size with 700C wheels and a flat bar. I wanted it be like a cross bike commuter. I really like this Romantic Silver finish.

The Evasion can fit 26 x 3.0″, 27.5 x 2.8″ and 700 x 50c”, but the most common wheel size for this bike is 27.5″. I currently have mine built with 27.5″ wheels, but I’m really interested in a 26+ set up so I’m currently building up a set of 26″ wheels. I love how this bike can do everything.

I built this one up for a beginner rider to ride for their commute. Most parts are affordable.