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Thanks very much for the tips. Will check it out for sure. Thinking of starting an exclusive japanese fixed gear bicycle shop.... COuld bring some SMALL bits back at a request.
Any more insider tips bring em on.
The police are brilliant in Tokyo. I got pulled over by three cop cars and a policeman on a bicycle when i was riding with a friend on a crappy 50cc honda zapp scooter. Aparently you cant ride 50cc or below with a passenger. So bloody stupid! We were treated like criminals! I went in one cop car ancd my friend in the over (in the middle of a major intersection) - traffic was stopped and there was a huge pandamonium. We were secretly laughing inside! Went to the police station and went to separate rooms. We had just arrived in tokyo for a 3 year stint and had only been at language school a week so knew close to bugger all. Pans out the the cops have f-all to do in tokyo as real crime is too scary for them and its run by the Yakuza. So, big crime of the year (2 lads on a clapped out scooter) meant that they got their quota! My mate ended up being asked what kind of food he liked and all about the beetles (he's got a bit of a hippy Lenon look about him) and i played dominos for 2 hours with a bored young cop. When they dropped me home at my x girlfriends place to find out her dad was a big international lawyer and spoke better japanese them, they proceeded to bow and grovel like i'd never seen before. It was just too brilliant!