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Text: Ryota Kemmochi / Photo: Ryota Kemmochi, Toyoshige Ikeyama
Continuing on “Road to NAHBS 2017” part 1.
We were at the half way point to our great journey in the U.S. and on the way back to Portland driving SimWorks Astro vehicle. It seemed the road straight forward will never end in that middle of wasteland. My mind departed from the earth and I was quietly looking at the scenery as if we, human being, finally achieved to colonize the other planet. There were nothing on the land but air and gravity, so that I started wondering how amazing the life we had. Whatever it was, we, as Japanese, were attracted to those who live on this huge continent and started playing with a bicycle and also their culture which had adventurous lifestyle so much. Now, we drove our car back to Portland as if we were part of their huge history on this planet. Here are the pictures we took the latter half of our great journey.
Heading back to Portland.
Seven Eleven, Salt Lake City Utah.
Denny's, Salt Lake City Utah.
Ride onto I80-W, Salt Lake City Utah.
"IT'S YOUR SAFETY, THINK ABOUT IT", Great Salt Lake Utah.
Kennecott Garfield Smelter Stack (370m), Great Salt Lake Utah.
Straight on I80-W, Great Salt Lake Utah.
Gas stop, Bonneville Salt Flats Utah.
A nice column, Bonneville Salt Flats Utah.
Flat salt texture, Bonneville Salt Flats Utah.
I80-W, West Wendover Nevada.
I84-W, somewhere Oregon.
Lunch stop, Pendleton Oregon.
Grass and seed elevator, Umatilla, Oregon.
Once we got into Portland city, we started hearing rhythmical and popular music tune out of a radio. We thought that people had always pursued a quality of life and cultivated their own lifestyle by moving around like nomads and those who started living in the city now kept sending their sympathy and humor with their own messages through a radio and caught one’s heart who from wasteland like us. We didn’t know why we felt like that, but honestly we had several moments that impressed us again when we came back to Portland.
Rebounded to Portland.
1000 bikes 100 stations, Biketown bike sharing, Portland.
Salt and Straw, NW 23rd, Portland.
Making hybrid drop out (CrMo steel & Stainless), Bread Winner Cycles, Portland.
Ira at works, Bread Winner Cycles, Portland.
Norther Cycles, Portland.
Mark has a crush on Honjo brass fenders, Norther Cycles, Portland.
It sounded under the dance club. Norther Cycles, Portland.
Someone's VW bus. In fromt of Velo Cult, Portland.
Tuite Bicycle Repair, Portland.
Tommy is busy with the wheel things, Tuite Bicycle Repair, Portland.
Steak on a plate, Laurelhurst Market, Portland.
A bartender, Laurelhurst Market, Portland.
Laurelhurst Theater, Portland.
Matt, some games of pool and a bloody Mary, Holman's Restaurant, Portland.
The Steel Bridge, Portland.
Commuter Portland.
Bob's Land cruiser, Elevator Cafe, Portland.
Jay's French-fry.
St.Patrick's day, Elevator cafe and commons, Portland.
Start up with croissant, Elevator cafe and commons, Portland.
After many twists and turns, ummm, to tell you the truth, we are still on much trouble but we were finally able to have our own new base in this city. Our office is in the building of Chris King company. Not ‘My Neighbor Totoro’, it’s ‘My Neighbor Chris King’. (Actually, Chris King Sales department is right next to our office wall.) We plan to deal with demands in the U.S. country from here, but as you know and we know that we are going to have so many business troubles because we are not in Japan and we still try to figure out how to go over the walls ahead. At this moment, economy here in the U.S. is not that reliable, yet we very much appreciate the huge supports from people around us and we also believe that this foundation has been constructed throughout years with so much efforts between. We would like to say deeply thank you to Chris King himself and his co-workers in the company. We will never make good use of this amazing chance.
SimWorks moving to Dock 3, Chris King Precision Components, Portland.
Hello this is SimWorks new office in CK factory.
Cielo Road Racer - Metallic Sky, Chris King Precision Components, Portland.
Metallic Sage Base Racer & Mountain Bike NAHBS 2017 special.
Natural light box, Chris King Precision Components, Portland.
Josh is fine.
Jay gazing the moment.
Hello to Rudi, Black Magic Paint, Portland. .
Many colorful tricks are there, Black Magic Paint, Portland.
Secret meeting with Bicycle Crumbs, The Vanilla Workshop, Portland.
Hi David !, The Vanilla Workshop, Portland.
Simple Bicycle.Co, Portland.
Aady jumps well, Lumberyard Bike Park, Portland.
Oscar is like floating, Lumberyard Bike Park, Portland.
Tony loves ride at Lumberyard.
A mural at Alberta main street, Portland.
A evening of Portlandia.
A night of Portlandia, The Old Gold, Portland.
Grand opening day, Congrats DiMinno!, Jackrabbit Portland.
Last night of the trip with Xenia Rubinos, Holocene, Portland.
I wrote before that America is too far and too huge, but we are all on the same planet and able to go around with one passport with a stamp on it. We can get to a genuine steak meal anytime we want. Our new U.S. office makes us one step forward. We are all looking forward having a great relationship between you and me wherever you are and we are. The most important thing is a ‘QUALITY’. That’s what we are aiming for. We know that it will take some times and efforts but what we can do is only going forward without looking back. ‘Little by Little’ is the magic word to make our life much enjoyable, don’t you think?

One last word, we showed you pictures without talking much about this great journey like what happened here and there. We cannot calculate or determine how much value we are able to have on these diary and pictures but I hope what we have done so far motivates you to go one step forward for your life adventure.
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