A HUGE thank you to Kaze bicycles for helping support our channel with these awesome bikes to ride!

KAZE BICYCLES is a Japanese inspired bicycle brand based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Kaze (風) means wind, so the brand name literally means “ride like the wind”

Kaze bikes website – https://ridekaze.bike/

This is Thuong’s first time on a fully carbon road bike with carbon wheels. Fully aero, stiff, and a beautiful color to top things off. So needless to say, we’re both pretty stoked right now and will be putting a LOT of miles on these bikes 🙂

Thuong is riding the matte white frame. Cruise is riding the glossy red/black frame. Which one do you like better?

Today’s ride (Thuong’s Strava) – https://www.strava.com/activities/638…
Today’s ride (Cruise’s Strava) – https://www.strava.com/activities/638…

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Bike info – https://ridekaze.bike/product/kaze-ra…

Check the Thai website for local rates in Thailand. The English website includes international prices, which is much higher due to export duties.

At $900, I think it’s hard to find a better aluminum mountain bike with Shimano SLX components.

A big thank you to Kaze bicycles for letting us demo these MTBs while waiting for our new road bikes to arrive.

Our first bike ride on these bikes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVw4D…

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ROYALE GT S9 Foldable Bicycle by MOBOT https://mobot.sg/shop/bicycle-bike/royale-gt-s9-foldable-bicycle/

Thuong’s 6 speed Royale – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDrevmeyANo

Bicycle information

Frame: Chromoly steel

Weight: 13.4 kg

Wheels: 16″

Drivetrain: 9 speed c/w STURMEY ARCHER 3 speed internal gear hub

Dimensions: 1480 mm (L) x 540 mm (W) x 960 mm (H)

Folded Dimensions: 600 mm (L) x 380 mm (W) x 630 mm (H)

5 years warranty on frame under normal usage

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I decided to call up my friend Zac from BMC Japan, who also happened to be working the same event with me, and asked if I could borrow a one of their test bikes for the event. And he kindly lent me one of their top-end bikes, the BMC teammachine SLR01 with regular shimano ultegra (just the way I like it).

You’ll be seeing me ride this bike in a couple videos, and so I thought I’d do a proper introduction video of the full bike and it’s components. Also, we’ll be showing BMC Zac’s Roadmachine disc, which has a beautiful red and green color combination.

This bike is extremely fast, and I’ve already taken one of my target KOMs with it on Strava (ironically one where Zac was ahead of me haha).

It’s going to be hard to say goodbye to this bike, but it was fun while it lasted.. 🙂

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Bombtrack, The Company

Before seeing this bike, I did not know about the Bombtrack brand. Apparently they are a fairly new bike company based out of Germany that specialize in making Steel / touring focused bikes. Needless to say, I quickly became a fan after seeing their Beyond 1 model in full bikepacking mode.

Bikepacking bags, bags, and more goodies

This bike had a wide arrangement of goodies and bikepacking bags attached to it… I was quite jealous to say the least..

Front handlebar bag – Porcelain Rocket Horton

Double Bottle Cage – Wolf Tooth

Other items on the bike..

Front rack – Kaddy Rack

Lights / Camera combo – Cicliq

Other bikepacking bags – Oveja Negra bikepacking bags

Other bikepacking bags- Bedrock bikepacking bags

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Track cycling played a really big part in developing my cycling racing career. I grew up with a velodrome very close by to my house, it it became one of my first entry points into the world of competitive cycling. However, once I moved away from home, participating in track cycling became more and more difficult, since there are not many tracks in the US, and I pretty much stopped riding / racing on the track.

In Japan, there are hundreds of velodromes or keirin-jo (競輪所), which is what they call the velodromes here when they are for the purpose of gambling. There are about 4 or so tracks within a reasonable distance to my home, so I decided to get a track bike of my own so I could participate in some of the training events and races at the local tracks.

Since I was only doing this for fun and I did not have a lot of money to spare, I was looking for a cheap, but good option. My friend suggested the Undefeated II model from State Bicycle Company, which at the time was an unknown brand to me. It appeared to be built for street fixed gear racing, but it looked like it could handle itself on a track (especially a nice wide open Japanese 400 meter track). The price was also perfect, at just under $1,000 with a decent wheelset and omnium track cranks, I couldn’t have picked a better build for this price point. To top things off, they were running a 20% off campaign when I bought mine, which helped cover the international shipping charge to Japan!

Here is the bike fully built up. Can’t wait to put it to the test. Full review coming up in a later blog post!

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