Tour De France in relation to my rides here in KOCHI

 Well the tour is almost over ..its been live on the television here sometimes and part of the screen is blocked out to try to get you to pay but its made me think of my bikes here and how they relate to the race of the season. Its a bit of a stretch but I figured my ezine readers might like some photos of the bikes I ride around to take the photos for this blog... In this instance I will be posting Digital photos this is an exception as regular visitors of this site know..please excuse the regression.. the link is that both bike have mention of a 5 time Tour winner on them... OK heres the first one.. the seat tube had a head shot its not really recognizable but heres a teaser..

 To me it looks more like a photo of Pou-pou (poulidor) after he broke his nose while in the lead of the 68 (?) tour but it is indead Jacque the first man to win the tour five times.. here is the head badge..

Head badge

 here is another shot of one of the transfers.

heres what the cockpit looks like

its got a nice JOS lighting system complete with an AMBER front bulb (how french)

  

Here are a couple of shots of the details that make this frame special....

 

     YOU can be sure that Jacque picked the all the parts out for this model.. the seat shows just how much style he had..

 WELL that bike is in the quiver sitting along the other bikes of the house...

the one that is hanging up is my other ride here... The seat and post as starters..

The one link this bike has to the Tour De France is the Stonglight headset which is Branded B.Hinault who followed Jacques and Eddy into the small group of men to win the tour de france 5 times (without asterix).

The bike itself was branded Marin made for some six day races they entered their team in to garner some needed UCI points I got it without a fork at a bayarea bike swap about 10 years ago. The frame has been rebranded with transfers I aquired at the first CMWC in 1993 in berlin. there is a sticker just above the BB that however reveals its true heritage...

 

You may not have heard of the Billato brothers unless you read The Landlords website.they made this wonder of welded beauty.

YES Misster Pissta has an alloy Bike INFACT I have 2 my other one is a BULLITT freight bike... I have in the past owned Alan's and Vitus's and maybe someday I will own a Cunningham....look at these great beads.

 Most of the parts are from the GOMI before fixed gears got popular and Keirin riders quit throwing away their cast offs.

Heres a shot you can see the decals in all their glory (?)  hey they were better than the marin ones...

Yeah I have a MTB stem on it once I past the age of 25 comfort became more important to me than fashion... the only reason the tires match is becuase they were the first ones I found in the trash when I rebuilt the wheels from sewups last week.

 

 The rear hub was a gift from a friend who raced Keirin till the 80's he raced for 37 years and 4 months.. I think it is from the early 60's

 the headtube has stickers from a few shops in Kochi...and suntour..

well thats all for today...next time..a story  Keirin my liflong quest....

TILL then I am MISSTER PISSTA

more from kochi...again

Next time I will wrie something I had it ready to go but made a clerical error...rewrites always come out better anyhow... till next time I am Misster Pissta

MOre from kochi

the first shots are of Coda Casa sports and Yojiro who I have mentioned before on these pages (shark).
the first and second are double exposures I got the times right on the second try. Camera is Manual Option land camera with FP-3000 b.

I saw these two bikes and had to take a photo ,obviously reading whats cool -but all the same I have never seen a vivalo with chrome lugs and I have owned 5 or 6 of them. ....and then theres the grab shot with the wheelchair frontwheel

next we have some street shots.. the first is a double of a mail box ,I was taking the building but the rider enterd my shot. fp100c--grafaloid

 

Here is a bike I saw parked-One of those ladies who is afraid of the sun they wear these hats with built in black visors really scary you can't tell if they are looking or not...notice the hand covers

 

This was just too cute they were waiting for the light.ruined the print somehow though.

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This lady has a less severe style similar to the owner of the bike in the first shoot.

NEXT TIME..My lifelong quest of keirin (not the beer)

Kochi cycle style

more to come but heres some street view from here..

SHARK DERNY

I was riding to INO town to bring my camera to KOCHI CAMERA SERVICE home of  quite possibly the best camera man on the island of SHIKOKU -MORI_SAN.
On the way there I passed this Honda shop and noticed a bridgestone road bike in this window. I stopped back on my return trip and found there was a much more exciting bicycle not in view from the street right next to the bridgestone. It was a Shark DERNY bike. Shark was one of the few NJS approved builders in kochi,and Doubleears has one of his track frames really nice paint and an incredible headbadge showing the island of shikoku with a shark of the shore of Kochi.
My good friend Yojiro of Team Sacrifice and owner of Codacasa sports bike shop was an apprentice of Ito Tadao also know as Yama-MOto a name he took when he retired from framebuilding and started making paragliders..sadly he past on a few years ago.

    Acording to Yojiro he made 4 of these dernys sometime in the Mid 1980's. This one has a Shark decal on the tank and unfortunatly MY FUJI 645 is not the best for close ups but if you think that looks like a cinelli logo you are right but it says SHARK instead of Cinelli. For you enjoyment from MISSTER PISSTA

ALL photos taken with a FUJI GS645S 60mm f4.o on expired (2009) fujifilm pro800

AH the 80's....

nomeat no gods  woops thats

• No Gods, No Vegetables

left a comment so I want all of you that like this to make a heavy metal devil hand sign and gesture towards new york for him...

here we have my selection of the best photos from the March 1980 cyclerace magazine

The Badger on full effect

no acspect of cycling to be left out

few pages later you get this

show reviews

the last page Jan's bike!

Sarroni looks so young this was his year, but he was still kicking in '86 when I watched him race up the hill to coit tower in the coors classic, and then later  that month in colorado springs he helped Argentin win the rainbow jersay

let me hear you yell JOOP in orange more then yellow he also has a rainbow jersey in his palameres

MOSER at this point was still picking his nose on live eurowide televison...so young and Hennie where did all the dutchmen go in the 90's?

Roger the KING OF THE COBBLES ranked 8th hard to tell its him without the sideburns and longer hair..maybe he was supporting his local futball club between cross races that winter

Just another rad ad

this is just from one magazine club wheel Kochi member and tokyo EXenger  rescued from the neighborhood Keirin office when they closed down....more to come?? its up to you till next time I am MISSTER PISSTA

another for the landlords GS

I havnt seen many jerseys I would
wear over at the landlords site , but everything they have featured is preferable to the offerings of mash to date (sorry mike)<I do have a mash TSHIRT I DESIGNED AND WEAR OFTEN> ANYHOW I would wear any of the jerseys in this spread and have had quite a few of them at one time or another.... give me more sheeps hair and less pet bottles....
this is from a 1980 issure of cyclerace magazine..like it?> want more? leave a comment and upload I will...
till next time I am MISSTER PISSTA

OUTERRNATIONAL despatch

I find myself spread everywhere at once... IM ing  with SAM in Jerseuleum,      listening to the BBC6  and the punkbritannia specials (siouxie DJ ing?) while I sleep under the shadow of the KOCHI CASTLE having a Ryoma HOLIDAY . I find myself unexpectedly in Kochi due to my daughter breaking a few bones, shes fine just laid up for 3-6 weeks confined to the hosptial so here I am.
         I took a flight to Kansai (KIX) and for the first tme was able to leave the island the airport is built on by a hi speed ferry to the Kobe airport. From there a shuttle and a tram to Sanmiesan where I had a few hours to wander around before getting on the night bus across the inland sea to shikoku and over and through the mountains to Kochi.
I have air in my tires and am searching for cameras... can't decide what the market wants but lots to choose from... contax? check- g1, g2 t2 t2tvs...fuji ? yes 645 many types,6X9,Klasse,tiariaII... CHECK me on ebay Kaiben_v to see what I pick up should be there by the 15th..any requests leave a comment I'll look for it..not limited to cameras.. till next time from the land of the rising sun
yer pal MISSTER PISSTA

Photos from 1717 17TH ARTSHOW

It was with the greatest honor that I took part in the show at 1717 17th ..thanks to those of you that stopped by and picked up a copy of my paper blog...good on ya... heres the photos..

views of the show at 1717 17th

ONE for the ( G.S.) LANDLORDS cycling gang

this photo is for the GS landlords cycling team.. follow them ...order their book or end up in the broom wagon of life...   check here join the breakaway

This one, from the archives, was shoot on a fuji instant mini (CHEKI) about 2000 . Of note are the hubcaps on the front wheel and the "GAI-CHE" fibreglass attachements from MONG KOK neighborhood in Hong Kong. The kids there were putting them on 20" cnatilever shwinn style frames with 16 " wheels when I was there in 87 or so, the seat braces on this one were fashioned from crutches. The sticker on the seat reads in yamaha script SHITBOX XLT .

The bike was badged GT when I got it from josh pvc but it was from the OTC in colarado springs , and I think they were made to train on and work out the sizing /fit for the GT blade bikes the us track team rode in 96..anyone got info on that?
     since it has a 24 inch front wheel I just pretend its a Georgina TerrY as many of the bikes in their line have 24 inch front wheels.

more from the grafaloid II

the show is up still at 1717 17th thursday -sat 11 -5 ? think it runs two more weeks you can get the paper blog there and at the newstand on market and 6th that sells zines and records..right near blick..

ok Im off to the darkroom......Misster Pissta says ..have a nice ride

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1717 17TH Street Barry Mcgee and friends

I have a few things on the walls at the place below... more posts soon...photos too..

 

Contemporary Arts Centre

At 1717 17th Street, San Francisco

hours: Thursday - Saturday, 11am -5pM

runs till may 19

link http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com/Gallery_Paule_Anglim/Press_Releases/Entries/2012/4/14_Contemporary_Arts_Centre.html

Bicycle Siren /misster Pissta paper blog

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I mentioned it before but now it is a reality, the paper blog is now finally complete. I would have posted this earlier today but I spent the better part of the morning at the hall of Justice waiting  to get a court date for the citation I recieved last year on Clement street for being within 6 (SIX) FEET (two metres) of a pedestrian in a crosswalk. The officer ,(who I hope shows up in court) flat out told me at the time that for that day he had been given a mandate to only issue citations involving Ped/bike interfaceing. well the cops have almost 500 bucks of mine now until I go to court and then hopefully the judge will give me back at least some of it.

On to the paper blog..
Bill Daniel photographer/zinester  (billdaniel.net)  says about it:
 "Zo's latest info-device -art rivals the world wide web for vastness and the great pyramids for sheer wonder."- "Xeroxgraphy's Zenith"



-- the basic version has 32 full size reproductions o of Black and White polaroid prints hand cut and folded with an index page and a cover page, all pages have large images on the reverse side. finished size is 4.5"X5.75"  6 dollars in person ,$7.50 paypaled and posted to you extra copies at in person price.

the COLOR version has everything in the black and white version has as well as
32 full size reproductions of color polaroid prints with an index and a folded 11"X17" cover page with a large image on the reverse. this comes with an "obi" made of instant film parts and a case made from recycled tetrapacks. size is larger than the B/W version dur to the case.
Trade value is one pack of peel apart film, in person or sent to my p.o.box
In person cash cost is $15 dollars , shipped cost is $16.50 paypaled and posted to you as above for extra copies.

The BOX SET : includes everything in the color version as well as A fuji film box containing a spent film pack with a Fauxlaroid wetprint mounted in it,signed and numberd  (limited to 25 peices)on the back
cost is 28 dollars paypaled with shipping.
(the fauxlaroid prints are made in the darkroom using a negative of the orginal instant print on RC paper)
if you have any questions or to paypal use : missterpissta@gmail.com

here are some photos of what they look like--

black and white basic

color version

box set showing fauxlaroid (fauxlaroid images are random)

detail of box set cover

I also have available for 100 dollars-- Library Sets.. these contain all pages of the zine printed Single sided on 25 pound bond uncut for easy display or reproduction these are limited to 5 peices and come with a numbered Fauxlaroid as well .
alright thanks for reading and for your support and have a nice ride...
(avoid crosswalks and cops)

(I ship daily)