韋駄天完成
11月 1, 2014 § コメントする
十月三十日やっと組み上がりました。国内イダテン一号車です。
この暑い夏を何とかしのぎすでに肌寒い日もある季節になってしまいました。
Finally completed the first IDATEN bicycle some nice fall weather day in Tokyo.
祝！３０周年記念
3月 11, 2013 § 3件のコメント
thank you to our friend l.c. for providing additional photos.
we have a fuller sense of the festive day that passed this spring.
thank you to all who made it out and for those of you
who were elsewhere, we missed you deeply.
thank you for all of you who made it possible to celebrate such a day.
三十周年を祝い、
お客さんから新しい写真をいただき、
編集作業でなんとこんなに遅れて、
新たに祝う気持ちで、
再度味わう。
heading over to the other side of the bay.
bart in the morning.
週末の朝のバートの様子。
lovely friend of the shop e.s. welcomed the ebisu friends
with coffee and scallion bacon scones.
now off for a ride.
es氏により、
朝のエビスライドが企画され、
集合場所は彼のロフト。
コーヒーと自家製ベーコン、ねぎ入りスコーンで
迎える彼。
さあ、これから走るべし。
heading to downtown oakland.
getting to know one another.
happy to see v.r. on her light blue ebisu
after hiatus.
her presence matches this sky.
さて、出発。
エビスを通じて初めて会う人。
久々に自転車に乗るvr氏。
彼女の性格はこの青空のよう。
gather at the shop.
お店で集合。
some of the old friend brought items
they had purchased early on.
a bit of history.
昔からのお客さんは
うちのお店であの時代に買った品をいくつか
持ってきて披露。
old friends who worked at js came to celebrate as well.
we met y.o. as a student at cal when he was still in his teens.
his older brother t.o. was on the cal cycling team and
they rode around in a vw bus.
these were the years when bomber jackets and ray bans
were in full rotation (no irony).
when we met y.o. he spoke mostly english,
which otosan would promptly reply in japanese.
(i could write endlessly about our employees over the years but
i will save it for another post.)
昔お店で働いた人もみえて、
感謝でいっぱい。
当時大学生であった彼。
今や、自分の家族と一緒に。
元従業員の話になると長いので、
それはまたの機会と言う事で。
old and new friends.
the island connect on right. (talk story?)
the next generation.
under the warm regard of the elders.
ハワイの話で盛り上がる。
言った事ないな。
次の世代。
どうにか犬かき状態。
with gratitude.
感謝。
this is where the real excitement is.
初心にもどって。
みそマヨ。
12月 25, 2012 § コメントする
街乗りで通勤用が主。
このお客様は自転車の初心者だそうだけれど、
サーフィンにもチャレンジしているそうで、
以外にスポーティー。
サウスベイの通勤はどのようなのでしょうか。
道は広そうだ。
another bicycle i wish i could ride going to the south bay.
with merry wishes.
べーえむべー。
7月 20, 2012 § コメントする
自転車の色の決めかたも様々。
このお客様は車の色が気に入ったらしく、
bmwディーラーにいって、
調べたそう。
メタリックのライトブルーが
バークレーの夏に結構似合っている。
—
choosing colours can always be challenging.
somehow it marks us.
as many colours that exist,
there are many ways to get there.
there is always an element of surprise
but when things translate smoothly, its always gratifying.
this particular customer was inspired by a car colour.
the icy light blue suits a berkeley summer day.
two crews and a north berkeley street corner.
7月 12, 2012 § コメントする
28 years ago we used to go around on our bicycles,
him and his younger siblings/cousins
and me, my younger brother and friend from the building.
we had a healthy rivalry and marked our territories;
him and his crew around the corner
and me and mine on our street (especially around our building).
the fruit trees, the two big plum trees on our street
and the fig tree facing our lot was at times
the center of our young turf wars.
since we were always outnumbered-
our three versus,
at least their five,
we were alert, ready and superficially brave.
after school i would do laps around the building or the block
with my pal who lived downstairs
and my younger brother (in that order)
with a self righteous fervor.
if we let our presences be known
we could avoid an ambush.
sometimes an extra jeer or soggy plum in the face
resulted in head-to-head heated confrontation.
—–
many years later, this fellow from around the corner
was a dedicated employee here at jitensha studio.
and now he is an owner of an ebisu.
humbling times.
with appreciation for the friendship and
support from this former neighbour over the years.
東へ西へ。
6月 22, 2012 § コメントする
松本の親友の息子さんのために作られた一台。
弟も私もその人に色々作っていただいた。
家具、おもちゃ箱、鉛筆箱。
このような物の会話。
今の空気を送る。
深呼吸。
recent complete ebisu sent to matsumoto.
for hiroshi’s s childhood friend’s son.
as for complete ebisus assembled in berkeley,
we will be taking orders through july.
after that we will have frames available from berkeley studio
and complete ebisus from tokyo workshop.
双輪タイムズ 