Text: Ryota Kemmochi / Photo: Ryota Kemmochi, Toyoshige Ikeyama
First of all,
A main purpose of our US tour which we had several times already was to exhibit our products at NAHBS, on the other hand, we had very much important mission that we needed to move our office in Portland to the other. This report is going to be about these two main duties, and also we do not want to exaggerate what happened there in order to make this report incredibly interesting, so that we simply would like to show you the real moments we shared with the others there. As a matter of fact, all these boring pictures of landscape can be ignored, which were taken while we had a long road trip, but we put some photos of food porn and awesome people we met between these photos, so that hopefully we are able to show somewhat feeling of our trip to you.
We think our life has some reasons to go somewhere you don’t belong, spend some times and open your mind to the others. We hope that you would like to visit where we were through this report.

766 miles from Portland.
In other words, it took 12 hours straight toward east on I-84 with 1,233km one way long drive. It was our second time as SimWorks to exhibit at NAHBS in Salt Lake City, UT. As we expected, we spent a whole entire day to build our demonstration bike and other stuffs till late at night before the exhibition. We carefully assembled our stuffs as if we were students who needed to submit very important craft-homework to school. Now, the first photo will be the start of our trip photo journal.
Shige & Doppo at Oscar's garage, Portland.
Heading to I84-E, Portland.
I84-E, somewhere Oregon.
From I84-E, somewhere Oregon.
From I84-E, Ash Grove Cement, Oregon.
Calling Chris Scuglia (ex welder of Cielo cycles), his Cielo MTB and Oscar, Boise Idaho.
Someone's Honda, Boise Idaho.
Charlie the little assistant of DeSalvo Custom Cycles, NAHBS 2017.
SimWorks Fun 3 bar updated and coming back, NAHBS 2017.


SimWorks Doppo ATB, NAHBS 2017.
SyCip 25th Anniversary Ti Disc Road, NAHBS 2017.
SyCip 25th Anniversary Landspeeder MTB, NAHBS 2017.

Retrotec 650b Fat Road with SimWorks Marcella bar, NAHBS 2017.

Retrotec 650b Plus Funduro ATB fresh dirt finished of Moab, NAHBS 2017.
BreadWinner Flatbar B-Road, NAHBS 2017.
BreadWinner B-Road Tourer, NAHBS 2017.
Erica likes her BreadWinner Lolo, NAHBS 2017.

DeSalvo Ti Disc Cross, NAHBS 2017.
DeSalvo CrMo Road Builders Special, NAHBS 2017.

Sklar 27.5" MTB, NAHBS 2017.


Sklar bikes from Bozeman MT, NAHBS 2017.

Porcelain Rocket bags are everywhere, Stinner Bikes are radical, Black Magic Paint is fine, NAHBS 2017.
Hello to Travis, NAHBS 2017.
Chris Diminno at Chris King Taco Party, NAHBS 2017.
Thanks to John, at Rada-busiest work, NAHBS 2017.
Congrats Adam!, Sklar Bikes got the best MTB award, NAHBS 2017.
Bicycle people crossing on the street evening while the show, Salt Lake city Utah.
Ron from UBI loves FJs as well, Land Cruiser Heritage Museum, Salt Lake city.
Someone's El Camino, Salt Lake city.
Hello to mighty Kate, NAHBS 2017.
Sad Rick without his booth at NAHBS 2017.
CK dudes at work, NAHBS 2017.
Thanks to NAHBS 2017.
Good bye Salt Lake city.
Thanks to Rick for helping us.
Following Jay, look for food.
Once we got back into Portland City, our radio tune started picking up some rhythm and pop tastes. A sleepy atmosphere with a full of country song changed drastically into something waking us up as if oxygen concentration in the van increased all of a sudden.
To tell you the truth, NAHBS 2017 was the slowest exhibition ever we have experienced before. The number of exhibitors and visitors were small. In addition, the beer they served had flat and thin taste. It seemed the NAHBS in Sacramento last year was a bloom and bearing amazing fruits in hand-made bike world, but now it became dry seeds everywhere on the ground. However, it doesn’t mean that we felt some sort of saddens or even dullness at this time. A part from the number of visitors, some makers which know what to do brand themselves perfectly and all the legends who contributed this world seemed so excited and had lots of fun since they came back from Moab touring ride. We all know that up & down happens in this world, but we confirm ourselves that we have been doing right so far by pouring our passion into the pots which we carefully raise our seeds inside. We must appreciate the situation we have right now.

We were on halfway through our trip. All those moments we had there reflected on the window in front of us and the landscape behind existed there as if we were on a different planet. Finally, now we came back to Portland.
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