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Kuwahara BMX saddles!
Fresh out of the oven, Kuwahara bmx style plastic saddles, which suit track bikes to a tea. Mr Kuwahara dropped these off personally at our Osaka shop,
including red, white, and black. A nice surprise release for early 2010! Check them out here…
Carnival x Concor saddle at Track Supermarket
I have not seen any official collabos with San Marco yet, apart from the BFF silver saddle of 2009…. Nice blue snake skin limited edition from Carnival! I got only 5 of these, and
3 already sold out in store in Osaka. Carnival Tokyo is the only other shop to have these saddles. The cover is [...]
LOOP #3 magazine from Japan…. available now!
Sorry for being so late to add the latest LOOP! Actually #4 is dropping on the 17th of March in Japan. This is the best track bike mag in Japan, with plenty of shop info, new parts/frames, news, DIY
tutorials, and feature track bikes. I am in this one, with a weird/cool Cinelli road bike I [...]
Nagasawa design fork crown/lugs!
The classic love heart fork crown designed by Nagasawa… soon this will be available for purchase at tracksupermarket.com by framebuilders around the world. I have been trying hard to get some good lost wax lugs to those of you who have emailed me over the last few years. Up until now I have not been [...]
Something you may have never seen…..!
I have been hunting/buying/selling and riding japanese keirin frames pretty religiously for several years now, taking advantage of the wealth of great builders in my adopted country! But to be honest, there are still many things that I have never touched or even seen in person. A customer came in to my Osaka shop yesterday [...]
More NJS frames in stock at tracksupermarket.com…woo!
Some more nice frames available now….the black 3rensho is one of the best I have ever seen! (update…it already sold, within 3 hours!)
Rene.
New NJS Keirin track frames from Japan
About 15 new frames have come through the shop over the last 10 days, including 9 NJS keirin frames, which are up on the web store, or are
going to be within 24 hours. Some nice large frames, strange funny frames, dented cheap frames, and pristine brand new, never built up frames!
All have come from pro [...]
Xmas/NYE period…
I am very sorry to say that over the Japanese ShouGatsu period, from around the 29th to the 3rd of January, the post office is closed, and Gira Gira track bike shop in Osaka is also closed. Tracksupermarket.com is also going to be slow to reply to emails and ship orders over this 6 days. [...]
Keirin-inspired jewellery from OH+C, Osaka Japan.
From OH+C and 728 FIXED in Japan, comes a range of beautiful and finely finished accessories, inspired by keirin track bike culture. There
are a total of 12 pieces in the line up, and all will be available at tracksupermarket.com shortly. The detail is pretty amazing, and the parts featured
are faithfully reproduced in miniature form. Amongst [...]
110mm Dura Ace NJS track hub conversion kits.
Highly sought after from anyone in possession of a 110×8mm rear-end spaced, Japanese hand made keirin racing frame. These shaft/nut sets
allow you to convert any Dura Ace track hub set, from the standard 120×10mm style, to the 110×8mm spec. Official Shimano Dura Ace, keirin-pro-use
product, available now at tracksupermarket.com
W-Base / Durcus ”DO A TRICK” fork, from TOKYO.
The new 700c track bike ‘DO A TRICK’ fork from Durcus / W-Base, Tokyo, features a thread on top cap, and as expected, super thick, strong steel construction, and huge
clearance to fit any tyre, and bar spin on any frame you install it on. Oversize 1 1/8”, ahead, available in white or black. Sticker easily [...]
New black METEOR track cranks from T19/Carnival TOKYO!
….in stock now at tracksupermarket.com , also available in blue, and silver, with both 46 and 47 tooth chainring
sizes available. This is the only place to buy CARNIVAL cranks outside of Japan.
Keirin school!
Here is a shot Track Supermarket’s Sayaka took of the Keirin school store-rooms, in Shizuoka, her home prefecture.
I will have to post more of them soon. Keirin hopefuls must spend a year at this training school, before becoming a pro
track racer in Japan.
MAKINO (chiba, Japan) NJS Keirin frame @ tracksupermarket.com
This frame was in pretty good condition when I got it 8 months ago. Unfortunately it had a small dent on one side of the top tube. I managed to get a new Kaisei tube and had in installed in place
of the dented top tube that was already fitted. The tubing is expensive Kaisei 8630R [...]
New rare items! (wbase, carnival, loop magazine, 110mm hub shaft)
The last few weeks have seen a lot of new stock turn up at the shop front in Osaka. Unfortunately I have had a cold, and the H1N1 flu (within 4 weeks) and a close friend from Australia spend a week here, so have been very slow to update the webstore.I apologise for slow shipping [...]
New clothing from W Base / Carnival / T19 ….
We have been very lucky to hook up some great shirts, hats and sweaters from the best in Japan recently. Many of you will know of Motosan and Yohei from WBASE in Tokyo.
They have been massively influential on the Japanese BMX and Track Bike scenes for many years. I am honored to be able to [...]
New 56-57cm frames….. coming later today…
These 56cm and 57cm NJS track racing frames will be available on tracksupermarket.com later tonight….sorry for the slow updates….frames are getting hard for me to find!!
Also a freshly restored vivalo/ocean in purple, and a freshly restored Makino in bright red!
Finally, more NJS Keirin track frames ….
The new deeper 30mm Candy Rims from Kobe, Japan…..glossy deep paint and rainbow sparkles!
….including a Nagasawa, 2 Samsons, Kalavinka, Uno, and coming soon; silver Peloton, red Peloton, pink Osca, and grey Kalavinka.Some really nice rare frames here….…check them out at tracksupermarket.com
Carnival crank sets (track/fixed gear)
Nice new cranksets, from the famous CARNIVAL shop in Tokyo, and the T19 crew.check them out at tracksupermarket.com
Also check out the blue T19/Carnival tyres, and lockrings. Very hard to find outside of Japan.
New 7mm thick white clinchers from Beans/Farnear!!
Now in stock, M and S size Starfuckers XENON frames from Tokyo. Included are frame, double end fork (!), seat pin, bb set, and headset. Check out all the photos now in the SUPERMARKET
Super strong, thick new 25c tyres from Masuda San at Beans in Tokyo. Released under the Farnear brand, they are the strongest [...]
Super!
From Osaka, Japan…..METALLICO Super Drops and Super Bulls, back in the Supermarket later today.
Amazing quality…steel w/smooth seamless rounded ends, white-black-white w/sparkles-black w/sparkles….Perfect. Hand made/customised by craftsmen in Osaka, and finally painted at the ex-3Rensho paint shop!
New T19 New Era Caps….!
Just in, at Track Supermarket! Hard to find caps from the Tee 19 crew in Japan.
The new shop in Osaka, GIRA GIRA!
We had a good time on Saturday night with the renewal opening of my shop in Osaka, Gira Gira! Here are some photos my friend Ken, from Metallico took. He makes the nicest bars in Japan. The Metallico Tsuchinoko, Super Drops, and Super Bulls. They are made the old Osakan way, by hand with high [...]
New parts in stock….
In stock this last week…..Nitto rare parts, including lugged seat posts, and Tee19 collaboration parts. More Dura Ace Zen chainrings also in stock, as well as black sparkle champ grips….
Please go to TRACKSUPERMARKET.COM to see the new website.