TOEI

TOEI
The company was established at Daito-ward Tokyo on 1955 by Umeji Uchiho who was head master of Maruto bicycle. The current president of company was forth. The company name was originated to Higashi Ei mountain Kanei temple which was located near Ueno station. Now the place of temple was involve Ueno park. The company moved to Machiya Daito-ward Tokyo on 1966. The bicycle boom happened back in that time and it came to be easy to get bicycle parts from oversea. So order increased rapidly. Only the standard frame was ordered several hundred a month. The company build their own Two story building at Urawa city Saitama prefecture on 1976. Ground floor was used as show room and office and workshop. Second floor was used craft man’s dormitory and storage spece. The company moved again to Kawaguchi city Saitama prefecture. Now there was tree craft man at workshop and made steel frame continuously.

Cherubim

CHERUBIM by Konno Cycleworks (Shin-ichi Konno) Founded in 1965, CHERUBIM represents the history of custom frame building in Japan. Three Konno brothers and their frames, CHERUBIM, 3Rensho and Miyuki, led the early age of the frame building industry in the country and CHERUBIM is the only surviving brand with the family tradition. CHERUBIM was the frame supplier for the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games. More recently, CHERUBIM frames, embodying decades of ongoing research and uncompromising craftsmanship, won seven consecutive Best Handmade Bicycle Awards from 1998 to 2005 in the prestigious annual show sponsored by the Japan Cycling Association. Under the leadership of Shin-ichi Konno, chief builder and son of Hitoshi Konno, the founder, CHERUBIM continues to live by its founding spirit of achieving a fusion of innovation and tradition and eagerly look forward to presenting our frames and bicycles The document from Website of Cherubim. The company is at Machida city Tokyo.

Jingane bicycle/ Pegasus

The shop is Chofu city Tokyo. You can watch the process of making frame at website (http://www.bicycle.jp/mk/makepa00.htm).

C.S.Hirose

The shop is at Kodaira city Tokyo, was established on 1970. He has made many kind of bicycle such as racer, tandem, touring, kid’s bicycle, shopping bicycle. He also make derailleur, stem, w-lever, seat pillar, reflector, tail ramp, carrier…etc by himself. Ad on New cycling magazine (http://www.cs-hirose.com/index.html)

Pie

The shop and factory are at Fukukawa city Ibaragi prefecture. The company was established as the factory of Marubeni Yamaguch bicycle. After Marubeni Yamaguch bicycle was closed, they have made lag less frame which is character of Marubeni Yamaguch bennyx (Super wield method).

Matsuda bicycle factory/ Level

The company is at Arakawa ward Tokyo, was established at 1951.

Raijin works

The company is at Gunma prefecture.

Takamura works/ Lavanello

The shop is at Nerima ward Tokyo.

Cycle lines/ M-idea

The frame builder of road racer and pist. The former builder of Zunow.

Nagasawa racing

Yoshiaki Nagasawa is the most famous bicycle builder at Japan. He was candidate of Mexico Olympic when he was at university. However he gave it up due to a traffic accident during training. He went to Italy at 1970 to learn how to build bicycle frame. After that, he was known as the Bicycle Builder in Japan. Japanese bicycle team had gotten victory on World Champion Ship Track-race from 1975 to 1990, and Nagasawa attend all of years as mechanic. Koich Nakano Japanese famous track racer used Nagasawa’s track race bicycle.

Silk bicycle Factory

The factory is at Saitama prefecture. Masa Arai is Ex-bicycle frame builder of Katakura Silk bicycle industory. After the company was closed, he inherited the name of Silk, began making Silk brand bicycle.

Zunow East

The shop is at Funabasi city Chiba prefecture. Now the company seems to stop accepting order.

SW Watanabe

The factory is at Yashio city Saitama prefecture. Watanabe had worked at TOEI factory for 12 years and at Kajiwara works for 1 year. After then, he established SW-Watanabe. At 1970, NJS authorized his frame as Keirin bicycle. At the Keirin grandprix on 1997, three athletes in nine ridden Watanabe bicycle.
The price of sandard touring frame is 129,000 yen include head parts. There’s three size of frame such as 520 cm, 540 cm, 560 cm. Manufacture period is about one month.The price of front carrier is 13,000 and there are several option prices.

496Elan

The factory is at Kuki city Saitama prefecture. Elan is French, means 'Go on' or 'rush'. Takahashi learned method of frame build by himself. He has made custom frame for almost 40 years. From 1980's he began to use computer program to make a frame, input height, weight, power of several muscle etc, The order price is about 126,000 yen for a frame of randonneur and racer, the period of product is 3 months.

Nambei

The factory is at Fukuoka city Fukuoka prefecture. The brand name Nambei means South America since the owner Fujii likes there.
In 1987, Nambei had achieved Maillot arc-en-ciel on World Champion Ship Pro-Keirin with Harumi Honda who was Keirin athlete. There had been only two frame brands which got Arc-en-ciel in Japan. The one is Nagasawa and the other was Nambei.
Fujii's special field is pist for Keirin and road racer. So his frame suits sprint and hill climb. He stopped to make frame for years, then re-start it on recently. He accepts only a order of road racer from general customer, the pist is for Keirin athlete. The price is 150,000 yen for a road racer frame.

Baramon

The factory is at Kurume city Fukuoka prefecture. The brand name Baramon came from kite at Nagasaki prefecture. Kodama had learn frame build at Nanbei. His special field is Keirin frame, but he also make a randonneur frame. The frame price is around 130,000 yen. The period of product must be from 6 months to 1 year.