bicycle

Octogenarian bike mechanic still 'wrenching' his...
Customers at Kesashichiro Tagawa’s bike shop are greeted by a monster bicycle with 1-meter tall wheels. The rider is supposed to hop on the saddle by finding a telephone pole and leaning the bike against it. (Yoshiaki Horiuchi)
OSAKA--Kesashichiro Tagawa began tinkering with bicycles in the postwar years when he apprenticed with a bicycle shop in Osaka.
VOX POPULI: A green light for cyclists, but...
I once saw a young woman, around 20 years old, riding a bicycle while eating a convenience-store "onigiri" rice ball snack in her left hand and using her right to fiddle with...
PHOTO/ Police unit gears up to promote road safety
Ehime prefectural police's bicycle unit shows off its new equipment in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on May 12. (Shigetaka Kodama)
Eight bicycle-loving police officers in Ehime prefecture are pumped about their new equipment: 16 new sports bikes donated by a Taiwanese manufacturer.
Chinese police's efforts to recover tourist's...
Keiichiro Kawahara smiles as he holds his recovered stolen bicycle in Wuhan, Hubei province. (Provided by Wan Duo with Chutian Jinbao)
SHANGHAI--When Keiichiro Kawahara reported his bike stolen in China, Chinese police and a Chinese microblogger's site went the extra mile to recover it for the friendly and...
Bikes for businessmen, custom-fit suits for cyclists
The Gentle Gear commuter is designed for business people. (People Co. Ltd.)
There's a new bespoke, and it involves bicycles. No, not just bike messengers and hipsters on fixed-gear bicycles--Tokyo has more than its share of those--but especially...
Bicycle college to develop budding frame builders
An instructor demonstrates bicycle frame building techniques at the soon to open Tokyo College of Bicycle Design in Shibuya (Louis Templado)
Tokyo's Shibuya is ground zero for the latest in teenage fashions and flashy hairdos, not acetylene torches and chrome molybdenum.
Navigation systems for bicycles hitting market
Pioneer Corp. releases PotterNavi, a navigation system for bicycles, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Oct. 25. (Shohei Makiuchi)
Pioneer Corp. has intensified the competition for compact navigation systems for bicycle riders, as manufacturers try to tap into the growing popularity of "puttering," or...
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