Hello, welcome to my channel, Two Wheel Cruise.
Today I want to introduce my bicycle room!
My name is Cruise. I live and work in Japan.
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so today I want to share my bike room with you.
I live in a small Japanese apartment
If you want to see our full apartment tour, click this link
today's video we're just going to be introducing the bike room
I will go in full detail about each section of this room.
this video is shot entirely on my new camera.
I bought a sony a 6400 camera. Let me know what you think about the video quality.
think about the image quality down below is it an upgrade from our last camera I
hope so and I want to give a big thanks and a big shout out to everyone over on
patreon who's helped support funding getting these new items so that we can
upgrade the channel anyway let's begin with the tour so this is the entrance to
our apartment you walk in and right on your left we've got the bike rooms so
let's head in and check it out gear on the left is a new addition this is my
new work desk so this is kind of a L shape so it fits right in the corner
really nicely over there and if you can see I've got my new main computer on
here so up until the end of last year I was using an ancient computer that just
was super slow I wasn't able to edit any videos and I find they got this nice guy
so I can edit 4k video plugged up to an external monitor we've got our channel
page up right there and I've also got an external keyboard that I like using this
is pretty much where I do all of my edits for the channel another upgrade
for the channel is this new light that we got here so this is a newer ring
light we just bought this with the new cameras moving along this is one of the
mics that I use for recording we've got some tripods here and this is
my old original camera so this is the canon g7x mark ii and it is completely
destroyed from all the cycling vlogs I can't even flip the screen anymore it's
held together with tape so that it doesn't make any noise the flip screen
is broken but it can still shoot some video but it doesn't shoot in 4k but it
is really small and easy to bring along in the cycling trip so I think we'll try
and still get some use out of it hi these are my headphones that I use for
editing and this is my new work chair I love this thing so this was also pretty
expensive but when you're sitting down editing videos for a long time I really
like the extra support so I'm not really a gamer but I really like this gamer
chair underneath the neck we've got some extra storage so I'm actually running
out of places to store my wheels I don't know a good place to store them right
now for now I stick them under here and in random places we've got some shelving
here some tools and mostly in here we're just storing kind of like camera stuff
so here's some batteries and things like that oh yeah we got our tool crew
stickers if you guys are interested in getting a tool crew sticker leave a
comment and I'll let you guys know how you can get those I'm gonna try and work
on sending more of these out next onto this new shelf so this is a great new
addition I just got this a few weeks ago and before this I was really struggling
with places to put all my stuff I kind of just put it in cardboard boxes and
stack them on top of each other but now we've got this nice new edition with
actual proper drawers that we can slide out so I can store some of my parts in
here and be a little bit more organized so before I had this it was just a mess
and I'm really happy to have this thing now so I can be a bit more organized
with my tools and cycling parts that I'll be using and here we've got some of
you guys who watch the channel you know I'm a bit of a nerd so we've got our
Dragon Ball and we've got MIT Zuni Coon from Yolo misty petal moving along over
here this is just a quick easy rack that I use when I'm popping up a bike in the
center moving things around maybe working on something and this is also a
nice new stuff that we got so I can store some of our boxes
I'm here some other things I bought recently this power drill this one's a
corded one and again I've got some cardboard boxes here still with some
random bike parts put inside and this is my old ancient laptop here the Lenovo
IdeaPad with some awesome stickers on it if you know what this sticker over here
means then you are an awesome person and some of our decorations we've got a nice
Swift wat opieop poster here a Swift poster here as well
I love tour de france la start hanging up on the top wall and for the bikes we
got hanging up in here these kind of change every once in a while on the left
over here I've got my undefeated single speed kind of tracked bike fixie bike I
haven't been riding this very much lately but when I go to the track I do
use this bike but I think I'm gonna try and sell this bike soon I don't really
ride it and I am buying a new track bike from DMC so I'll share that on the
channel once it comes in this is my wife's bike 2 inch on spike the giant I
think this is an old-school TCR OCR not sure which one and we've used this on a
lot of our cycling vlogs on the channel but we're also going to be upgrading and
getting hurt a new bike this year as well it's an expensive year and this is
my specialized LA aluminum road bike so I've had this ever since I moved here to
Japan a couple years ago and it's just been performing solid over the last few
years loved aluminum frames they just last
forever and do really well these are all hung up with these kind of cheap black
hooks over here so if you're interested in those I can leave the link down below
and one of the changes I did on here I have these spaced out a little bit too
far at first but now these three on the left arm pushing a little bit closer
together so if I go over here you can see kind of the spacing before some
people asked for the measurement but it really depends on what kind of bikes
you're putting in here then you can elevate one over the other one that
wasn't really an option in here because this wall over here kind of gets shorter
at the end it's kind of the one weird thing
about Japanese apartments is the top wall gets cut off randomly and I think
that's just for like certain furniture so that it can prop up against there and
you can use some wedges to stick it in there so they don't fall over during
earthquakes and you can see the same thing happens over here so there's it's
not a perfect square room that was one of the things that was really difficult
in building this rack is I really had to make it fit specifically to the
dimensions of this room and one thing I want to improve still on this rack right
now is this hook location right here so unfortunately I'm using this pole as a
support for this weird structure here I was planning to build some extra shelves
up here and haven't gotten around to that yet so I am thinking to get an
extra pillar and place it kind of more in the middle here so I can move that
rack over there and fit the four bikes comfortably here and then the one extra
bike here and considering getting a leading rack and putting that here so
then I can place two bikes here because we actually have like two or three other
bikes that are kind of outside right now and ideally we want to get those in and
my last bike in this room I should mention this is my Scott scale I'm a big
fan of Scott mountain bikes I've had this thing for a long time and even
before I came to Japan I was riding a Scott mountain bike and I wasn't even
sponsored by them it was just one of the nicest hardtail mountain bikes that I
rode and I really liked the geometry I actually rode this guy today took a nice
kom so a nice fun day out on the trail and that's probably why I'm really
sweaty in this video some more wheels right here so yeah unfortunately no
great place to have the wheels right now but maybe I can build something above
here if I don't do the double rack system and over here we just got some
items hanging up that I'm not really using at the moment some extra gainer
skins so these are one of my favorite tires I love these things they never get
flats and these are an indoor trainer tire that I didn't use cuz I ended up
buying a spin bike so I got some stuff in here that I don't really need right
now I'm not really using but it's okay it is what it is okay another one of
those things is this chain cleaner I bought with good intention to clean my
chains and haven't used that yet so some other interesting items in here that
some people have noticed they Puerto Rico flag there's been some people from
Puerto Rico saying all you gotta put a Rico flag and yeah one
good old buddies my old teammates is from Puerto Rico I went there to train
in the winter one year and did a training race there had a great time I
loved riding around there all the people that were so enthusiastic and supportive
for all the cyclists I'd love to go back if I have another chance and we've got
our attack on Titan poster here currently watching the new season of
that so loved that anime again I'm a big anime nerd incase you can tell we've got
some more anime decorations here these are some one-piece characters and we've
got our characters for Kyoto over here and for the food Yatsuhashi and here it
says one piece continuing along with the anime nerd Ness we've got our Evangelion
unit one another cool country flag I've got here from China and this is also
from the Chinese Cycling Association so back when I was fast in racing pretty
consistently I went and raced at international mountain bike race in
China that was a really cool experience but unfortunately before I was really
filming any video so some of the things over here we've got another wat opieop
poster and another thing from one of my trips to China hiking the Great Wall
kind of a really cheap medal here it says yet Great Wall and I think I've got
my name and stuff on there from what I actually hiked it so yeah good memories
I've also got some race numbers on here from some of the local races here in
Japan and of course we've got our own erican with this full of BMC outfit and
BMC bike and some more euro mostly pedal goodness can't wait for the new season
to come out if you guys haven't watch this yet and even if you're not into
anime highly recommended to check out yo a
mushi pedal and we've got some pictures here taiyaki I love taiyaki anyone who
watches this channel knows I love Tai yaki another great photo here this is
from our Taiwan trip if you haven't checked out our Taiwan videos I strongly
recommend to go check out our Cycling Taiwan playlist great trip and lots of
amazing cycling over in Taiwan my favorite country to do cycling and
here's another picture when we were cycling in the taroko gorge absolutely
beautiful area one of my favorite days on the entire trip some of the last few
items over here we've got the Zen garden from the dough on ji temple this is also
in Kyoto a lot of these I had kind of leftover from when I was a study abroad
stood here in Japan and I bought a bunch of
nerdy stuff then I just kind of kept on to it and always used it as decorations
for my room and some other cool things that are bought I believe these are
called no den they're just kind of like these
posters that you can just hang up and they sorta can blow in the wind or you
can hang them in your house we've got one here for Mount Fuji so we did a nice
hiking video there a couple of years ago with my wife and Raman of course I think
that's actually what we're gonna be eating for dinner so this one says we
have nice cold fresh beer so it's probably good for like a restaurant and
this one is also food-related we've got takoyaki which is kind of like octopus
balls is the best way to explain it and this says like May buds who so like
famous food this is the famous food in Osaka if you ever go to Osaka
I'm sure you'll see those little octopus ball things all over the place so that's
it for this room but there's actually one other thing I want to share with you
guys and that's this awesome new little cycling rack that I built out here in
our main entrance so this place was also a really big mess up until just recently
when we fix this because we have this whole thing full of shoes this rack full
of shoes and these shoes all over here so this whole section was just kind of
covered with shoes and it was a mess every time we came in so we bought this
when we first moved in and it was kind of okay it held most of the shoes this
is a recent addition so we can put our mostly commonly your shoes in here
behind there we've got another metal rack so we can actually store more shoes
and this is actually where I store my bike rack because I don't use that most
of the time so when I need it I just sort of move this thing out of the way
and then I can pull it out and use it real quick I've also got my penny board
which I rarely use anymore because I mainly ride my bike as you guys know the
other great thing here is I've tried to create some more vertical space so we
can store more things and make just going up for rides a lot more smooth a
lot more efficient so I'm actually cycling to work every single day so it's
got to be part of my routine I want to make it as smooth as possible I wanted
to come out here grab my cycling shoes grab my helmet grab my glasses grab my
new computer I just made a new true you video for my new wahoo element both
computer so go check that out if you're interested this is my old garment edge
that I'm not really using anymore but sometimes using it sometimes we've got
our keys here so just grab everything I need to go and I'm ready to go so we've
got some tubes here some tools some lights basically anything that I need
for the day I can quickly grab it grab my keys grab my sunglasses grab my
helmet and be out the door oh yeah another cool thing is this is a custom
BMC product here in Japan this little lock things so that's nice to have a
nice little lock to carry when I go on my commute and not carrying my giant
lock all the time alright guys that's gonna be it for
today's tour I hope you guys enjoyed seeing the bike room in more detail if
you guys have any questions about the bike room anything in here leave it down
below and if you guys have any suggestions as well of things that I
should change in here things that I could improve also link those down below
as well once again I'd like to say a big big thank you to everyone over on
patreon who's helping support this channel and helping support these
channel upgrades please let me know what you guys think of the new camera the new
lighting the 4k everything I'd love to hear you guys's comments as always
thanks for watching and we'll see you next time here on 2 mo Cruz
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