bicycles

A bicycle broken down for transit with the travel cover removed, standing next to a 55-litwr duffle bag outside the Nagoya shinkansen station.

A bicycle wrapped in a carry bag and a 55-liter duffle bag standing in front of garbage bins on the Shinkansen platform at Shin-Yokohama station.

A collection of travel gear for a bicycle trip laid out on a couch.

A partly disassembled bicycle wrapped in a soft cover for train transit, and a packed duffle bag.

A street view of a bicycle shop, with many bikes on display in front. A Dioss road bike (mine) is leaning against a pillar in the foreground, Across the sidewalk running in front of the store, a rider (Jonathan) waits astride his bike while messaging on his phone.

A customer (me) settling up with a mechanic in front of a bicycle shop for repair of the wheel that stands between them.

A dismounted helmeted rider, mugging for the camera while holding the uncoupled front bicycle wheel with missing spokes in one hand, and one of the spokes in the other.

Two men in helmets, posing with their bicycles at the entry gate to a house, with a view of the horizon in the background

A lone helmeted rider coming toward the camera on a road bicycle, over a path lined with leafless trees to the right, under partly cloudy skies and with a mountain ridge as a backdrop in the far distance.

Two helmeted cyclists kneeling in front of their bikes, with a stone bench and landscaped historical marker featuring a life-size statue of a Buddhist monk in the background.