Originally Posted by
gridplan
I'd love to own that wooden bike. Also, I like the copper bike parked outside. Who makes those two?
The wooden bike is made by Sano Magic, email:
sanomagic 'at' u01 'dot' gate01 'dot' com.
I think Mr Sano can probably read English well enough to communicate.
The copper bike outside is made by a company called Ri Saikuru (recycle)、in Japanese, and 'Tanuki-cycle' in English - a play on a variant pronunciation of 'tanuki', meaning 'badger'. It can also be pronounced 'Ri'. They specialise in assembling bikes from 2nd hand parts.
I've just come back from Second House, a shop just round the corner that deals in 2nd hand stuff for the fix-wheel crowd, and asked Mr Nishimura, the owner, about those bikes. It was he who told me about the exhibition. Apparently, Tanuki-cycle' tried to exhibit at the show but was told that only makers who made frames from the tube up could do so, so they staged their 'guerrilla show' in the car park outside instead. The organisers were royally peeved, it seems.
Tanuki-cycle's web site is at:
http://tanukicycle.blog75.fc2.com/blog-date-200901.html
This takes you to their blog entry for January. The writing will probably be all garbled on your screen, and it'll be in Japanese if it isn't, but if you scroll down the left hand side of the page there are lots of clickable links to other pages with lots of pics of bikes they have produced.
Have fun!
Hugo