Korean Keirin
 

In Korean it's called kyung-reun, it's difficult for me to spell it out in english.
You can see the Korean letters (the bold white ones in the green bar) on the cover of the pamphlet in the attachments.
I just got back from a trip to Korea and visited Busan and Seoul.
Busan has a velodrome and they only race on weekends, I was there on a monday... sh1t.
Same situation with The velodrome in Seoul (it's in Jamsil in the olympic park).
Even though it was a weekday and I knew there were no scheduled races, I went to check it out.
I met two guys riding up to the velodrome for training. They were both riding Corex "president" frames and using a clamp on rear brake like Tomity's got on his kalavinka. see pics.
They told me of a shop that sells track bikes. (good bike shops are impossible to find in korea)
I was stoked. It was close by and they had a few used frames for sale.
I picked up an Interpro, the only used frame in my size. It came with a sugino 75 bb and a vantage headset. I have no idea what the tubes are, but it's got tange drop outs and nice lugs. The newer Interpro frames use nagasawa lugs. That shop was well stocked for track stuff. They had nagasawa, colnago, sanrensho, corex and interpro track frames plus all the NJS parts you could ever ask for. Of all the track frames I saw at the shop, none were stamped NJS. Corex and Interpro were the only two companies that I know of that make track frames in Korea.
I cant wait to get this bike put together, I've got almost everything, I just need to get a Sugino 75 Crankset to match that bb...
let me know if you know of a good place to get one at a decent price, used is fine ;)

"Kee-young Rhee-yoon"

Chamsil Station - I think I drank too much one night and got off at that stop only to realize I was totally lost. Sweet.

PM me when you get a chance.

truth:
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is that a colnago mtb in the backround of the last picture?

tell me more sine I am going back to Korea again to do just that (Keirin races).
Thanks for the pics and info. I can speak some Korean still.LOL

S/F,
CEYA!

Ceya
Hangul-mal Chal mo-tae-yo???

Nong-dam ha-jee-ma-say-o!

Are they planning on spending the night? What are they carrying the pads for?

and a fausto coppi in the shot of the hanging frames?

yes and yes, that shop had soooo many bikes. i spent some time in there and didn't even see everything.
there were literally piles of stuff in that shop. and good stuff. crazy expensive stuff.

I love the clamp-on brake! Do they make one for the front, or is the idea to use it simply to slow down from heavy spinning?

yes they do , it clamps to the fork blades.

S/F,
CEYA!

it's so you can ride legally on the street.

(there are clamp-on front brakes too, there was one on ebay a while back, but i think they've mostly been supplanted by the rear ones.)

Right, I forgot about the fork clamps. Awesome. Interesting about the street legality. I always assumed that the Keirin frames were only used in 'dromes.

never knew this existed.
my korean side thanks you for that interesting nugget you've dropped on us :beer:

Front brakes are usually used on drilled forks. The rear brakes like in the pics are common. they either switch out forks or the bike is a trainer. DF is correct but most think you are Crazy to ride without brakes,period.

S/F,
CEYA!

Funny, here you're looked at as crazy if you ride with a brake!

*At least in the hipster world
**Please don't start a flame war over hipsters and brakes - I was just joking

:) Ang-yong Ha-say-yoooo! :)

here's my last pic i took in the shop. my battery died just after this....

yuk.

yeah, the modern stuff isn't so great, just wanted to get some variety. maybe this pic killed my battery.

no maybes - it did.

WOW - great post!! Thanks for the info. I never knew that Korea had a keirin scene - makes scence. Thanks again!

Man, somebody better adjust that rear wheel before the race! :p Or are those the newfangled magnetic dropouts I heard about? :p BTW I dig Brigestone's CFF! Color is ugly, tho'...

Heh. I think that bike is absurdly hot.

I find it interesting how science is always evolving around the world at similar time
frames. Think about the Chinese inventing gunpowder while Euorope invented the steel to contain it. The French patented Aluminium at the same time Aluminum was patented in North America. Global awareness by lurches and staggers.

Check the Track thread "Carbon Fiber Track Frames" for more absurdly hot bikes. Traditionalists need not apply. :)

"The only thing wrong with tradition is the constant lack of change."
-The Indomitable Balzhoff Steele