Visit to Tokyo Azraq, “The Best Cycling Store in the World”

In fact, you can spend hours on the website Japanese and English publicationsAnd social media channels in the store. Lug Blue is very active Facebookand InstagramAnd Flex Accounts, the latter with more than 139,000 photos scattered across 1,391 pages. There is also a full set of YouTube videos From bicycles collected from a bare frame to a complete custom building. Videos tend to be without words and charming, and follow the process as skilled mechanical works. Their number is more than 20 minutes, one, a 44 minutes construction of dandruffHe gets a dedicated plating function and a dreamy soundtrack.

You have sedative quality videos, and you can learn a lot only by watching or getting ideas for your dreams or your current ride. Even if you don’t pay much attention, it may slip half an enjoyable hour.

What the blue Lug creates tends to be the beauty works that sit in the relationship between fun, fashion and practical application.

“They assembled bikes together in ways that no one else thought. They pay attention to the details.”

Blue bikes offered Blue Lug’s Tokyo stores.

Photo: Miggi Guterres

With the help of the store staff, borrow a bike from one of the tallest Lug Blue – thanks, Kisei! – On the city, and ride to the city. The bike is two years old Every lady of the space horse A beautiful blue color that I have never seen before, Nice fat tiresAnd fragile, and called the transformation.

I start choosing small neighborhoods to visit and move to it. This is somewhat fun, but a lot of pulling the map and trying to discover a way to get from one place to another. It is implemented but difficult. But then I stop at trying to move and ride only. The players in the store recommended a visit to Yoyogi Park, which turned out to have a path for cycling with an English mark that tells you to “enjoy it”, and I try to absorb it a little.

After a very enjoyable Crocate sandwich from a dining truck, I go back to the bike, get rid of the map, and direct myself in a general direction – “towards water” – and only ride. It is amazingly cold. In Seattle, I say, the tongue in the cheek, that drivers are fast to supply. Less joking, it tends to withstand the right of the road. It leaves you on the edge of the abyss. In Tokyo, things felt more integrated and equal. No one is honored. Simply follow people make riding on the other side amazingly easy. It is a lot about entering the flow, and there is often a bicycle rider in front of you driving the road.

Given that I was on a new bike for me in a new town for me on the side of the road that was new to me, it was delighted and created a new way to communicate with the city. You really don’t let us bleed. On a trip through Tokyo on a perfect bike, you enjoy a flow.