Here are a few web sites that are worth visiting:David e-mailed the url for a Japanese craftsman that makes breathtaking leather and metal bike goods:
http://www12.ocn.ne.jp/~hishikaw/index.html
Still the best deal in a wool jersey:
http://shop.newbelgium.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc
One of my all time favorite bikes, a Toei passhunter:
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~akuta/pass-hunter.html
Post-modern bike parts and bikes from Denmark:
http://www.sogreni.dk/Products.php
A gallery of unusual photos from the Alex Singer atelier:
http://www.mupson.com/files/galleries.php?galname=Alex_Singer
The VAR tool site. You can download an English language catalog:
http://www.vartools.com/fr/index.php
A great pass hunting page (this is the translated link):
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A new Rivendell site that was posted on the RBW list:
http://www.woolywarm.com/home.php
An amazing selection of LED flashlights:
http://store.advancedmart.com/fllipr.html
Great baskets that we can't get in the US:
http://www.basil.nl/home.asp?lang=3
Please comment if you know other great, but obscure, URLs
Whoops, my link had a mistake and ironically it took the gentle reader to the Rivendell site. That's sending a boy to do a man's job. The translated link should be:
ReplyDeletehttp://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww12.ocn.ne.jp%2F%7Ehishikaw%2Findex.html&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
Fixed. I linked to the un-translated site because translated links are sometimes flacky. But somehow I linked to Riv instead ;<)
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