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Nagasawa X Kashimax saddles are here now!
These beautiful saddles have been in store for a couple of weeks, but I have still not got them on tracksupermarket.com sorry! Please email me if you want to reserve one. The shells actually started life as Five Gold 4P NJS saddles, and have been hand cut down to a new shape, by the Kashimax [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]