{"id":157898,"date":"2024-12-15T10:17:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T01:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/?post_type=global&p=157898"},"modified":"2024-12-15T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T01:17:36","slug":"my-bikelore-experience-and-demo-evasion","status":"publish","type":"global","link":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/global\/my-bikelore-experience-and-demo-evasion\/","title":{"rendered":"My Bikelore experience and demo Evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d like to start off with thanking everybody who came to Bikelore!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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We had a product booth, test ride booth and a Bike Friday booth. We went big this time.<\/p>\n

I didn’t really have the time to see the bike races and the other booths, but I know the event was blowing up.<\/p>\n

The parking space was packed and the camp sight was filled with people. Three race tracks were added this year. Insane.<\/p>\n

I was mind blown after seeing the photos that our photographers took.<\/p>\n

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Here’s some pics of the One Shot Race hosted by Kaneyan. 150 people signed up for the race.
\nHuge respect to Kaneyan for organizing the race with this many people.<\/p>\n

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Melo, the young gun raced three different races in one day. That’s really impressive.<\/p>\n

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Fergus Tanaka<\/a> from Ritchey came to Japan for this event. Read about him HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Guess what? He won the Delivery Race!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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I headed out to the event at the end of day one after work.
\nI had my Evasion repainted and I finally rebuilt this bike with dynamo light.<\/p>\n

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Arakawa in the midnight was so scary. There’s no one around and you suddenly end up in a dead end.<\/p>\n

I stopped looking back after a couple hours. I focused on keeping my eyes on the road ahead.<\/p>\n

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The venue of the event was already pitch black, but some of the homies thankfully found me.<\/p>\n

There I was in the camp sight. The Scandinavian style campfire and the cup ramen saved my life.<\/p>\n

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\n\uff08Flossing in camp. Respect.\uff09<\/p>\n

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One of the people who I met road this crazy Frank The Welder touring bike. This bike was so sick.<\/p>\n

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

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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.<\/p>\n

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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!<\/p>\n

Okay, enough with Bikelore.<\/p>\n

Here’s a new Evasion build I worked on for the shop.<\/p>\n

\"*CRUST<\/a>