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  convenwis
  For those in the Bay Area I highly recommend the Marin Museum of Bicycling. They have an absolutely incredible collection and walking through it you can actually see the bicycle evolve from the direct pedal to today's designs. Truly wild to see some of the dead end evolutionary branches. Steering mechanisms, gearing, early chains, brakes -- people tried so many crazy approaches.It was founded by a lot of the original mountain bikers so it has a lot of the evolution of mountain bikes as well.
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  stelliosk
  Shimano make great fishing tackle especially reels, from applying their expert gear-engineering skills from bicycle manufacturing, plus is an outdoor sport.
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  vondur
  I like the Shimano MTB stuff, usually I'm all in on the XT level stuff. I did have some XTR cranks back in the day, but they had this cool dark grey color. I especially like the XT disk brakes and their clipless XT trail pedals.
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  docdeek
  Love that this is on Hacker News! INRNG has some of the best commentary about professional cycling online, as well as book reviews and travel pieces around famous climbs and races. If you are a fan of professional cycling, it’s a must-read.
• timonoko
  History of Kharkiv Bicycle Factory in Ukraine.https://uk-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1...Praiseworthy because "Timo Noko" is mentioned as a customer. Those bicycles were good but dirt cheap, maybe even 1/10 of Raleigh or Shimano.
• gregjw
  I live in Osaka, I did not know this existed so close by, I should go visit.
• SapporoChris
  “The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ” ― John Howard
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  dmarinus
  https://www.moosfietsen.nl/museum.html also has a nice collection of old bicycles!
• theCodeStig
  They also have a museum in Singapore, which I highly recommend.
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  voxleone
  No rods or reels? As a Shimano fishing enthusiast, I feel slightly underrepresented here. :)
• walrus01
  I hope there's an exhibit on the first generation ten-speed dura ace group set, which was a legitimate jump ahead in capability and precision when it was introduced in 2004. Everything since then has been refining some of the same.
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  matsemann
  I'm going to Japan in a few weeks and was contemplating visiting this. I'm an avid cyclist and bicycle activist. However, not a big gearhead. What kinds of cyclists is it aimed for? Is it worth a detour?
• soizi
  3 years ago, I visited this museum during my cycling trip across South Korea and Japan. the staff were so friendly
• archerx
  I had a Shimano bike as a teenager and it was great, the breaks were amazing and I loved riding it until it got stolen right in front of a bank security guard. I still think about the bike.
• ubermonkey
  I'm a fairly enthusiastic road rider, and while I'd never trade the tech on my modern bike there's a beauty to those early derailleurs that is lost in modernity.
• CoinAlko
  Thank you for your article.