Looks like someone in Canada, kanarakuotoko, has created a playlist for our 8 Loop Line videos and called it Cycling in Osaka. Cool!

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NOT intended for decent folk. Sensitive viewers should FFWD through the "intermission" segment as it contains video footage of digital images of upper area wardrobe deficiencies. You have been warned.

As for you regular viewers, if you haven't watched every episode, 1 through 7, go do that first! Click on the Loop Line video folder and scroll to the bottom of the page!

Almost 2.5 years after the feat, the 8th and final episode of our JR Osaka Loop Line Tour is complete with flash intro by Alex and drum n'bass conclusion by Will Spin (JR Song).

At the end of the previous video, Alex and Rob were leaving Time Table Cafe, which is located under the tracks, between Momodani and Teradacho stations. This video starts at Teradacho Station and continues on to Tennoji Station, with a brief stop at Danyk's place. Danyk rode the Loop Line with Rob earlier in the year, but no video was taken, only photos, so a visit to his place was an appropriate way to commemorate that momentous occasion.

From there, it was back to Tennoji Station, then Shin-Imamiya, Imamiya and finally, back to where we started several hours earlier, Ashiharabashi Station!

If you enjoyed this unconventional tour of Osaka, then you may appreciate our other urban cycling saga shot in Tokyo, the Yamanote Line Tour, which we are still in the process of editing. Stay tuned to http://newsfromtheotherside.libsyn.com !

Tags: NFTOS, JR, Osaka, Loop Line, Alex Brooke, bicycle, Teradacho, Tennoji, Shin Imamiya, Ashiharabashi, Station, Bike Club, Danyk, Don't Panic, DJ, Tin's Hall, Japan, 大阪, 環状線, 寺田町, 天王寺, 新今宮, 電車, 駅, 自転車, 日本

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Does anyone know where I can get some proper prapatang? "What is prapatang," you ask? This video is an out-take from Loop Line #8 of 8, meaning that Alex must be almost finished with the final episode of our Loop Line adventures filmed just over two years ago. Way to keep the fans in a perpetual sense of NEED. Alex is the qunitisential (sp?) pusherman.

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Tags: NFTOS, Loop Line, JR, Osaka, Alex Brooke, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo

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Part seven of eight! Alex will finish editing the eighth and final leg of our journey soon. My chest swelled with pride as I watched the raw footage! A nip here and a tuck there. Some subtitles and it will be finished.

Recently, we recorded several episodes worth of Talk Shows and Tokyo Event updates, so stay tuned!

Edited by Alex. Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Alex Brooke, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo, Osaka, JR Loop Line, Japan, cycling, bicycle, ciclismo, velo, cyclisme, bicicleta, 大阪, 自転車, 電車

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Part 6 of 8.

This is Alex's latest editing project of vintage Osaka footage. I found it sitting at the top of the stack when I opened the NFTOS media files folder after coming home from work tonight. This was a joy to find after a long day's work, and having spaced out and not changed trains at the right station (Ookayama) and finally ending up going home via Oimachi, Shinagawa, Akihabara and Iidabashi Stations. Don't even ask me what train lines I rode, because at times I wasn't really sure. However, with my Pasmo card, I just smack it down on the sensor and go through the turnstiles (sp?). I shudder to think how much the detour cost me.

11 Dec. 2007 update: The next video has already been edited, and we'll be posting it in a few days, once the demand for this video tapers off. We've already gotten 144 downloads in the first 3 days--probably a record for our humble podcast. Also, Alex showed me Loop Line #8, the final segment, over the weekend. All he has left to do is add some titles. That should be up by the end of the year.

In the meantime, we have recorded several episodes worth of Talk Shows and Tokyo Events updates. Stay tuned!

p.s. This thing already has 388 downloads as of 15 December! Why? Maybe 'cos Alex blogged about it on his new blog? Alex's new blog connected to LearnJapanesePod.com.

Edited by Alex. Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Alex Brooke, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo, Osaka, JR Loop Line, Japan, cycling, bicycle, ciclismo, velo, cyclisme, bicicleta, Kyobashi, Osaka jyo koen, 大阪, 京橋, 自転車, 電車

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Part two of Alex, Makiko and Rob cycling around the JR Yamanote Line on 17 September 2007. We started at around 7:35 at Shin Okubo Station and finished up back there at 17:00. Listen to Alex's pre-ride motivational speech on our voice message box over on the right of this page. See it? Please leave your own message, if you'd like. Be nice! "The Girl Has Not Eaten" audio sample by Eric Seaholm.

Check out the first stage here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/newsfromtheotherside/Yamanote_Line_1.m4v

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Today we cycled around the JR Yamanote Line, and we made a video, of course. We started at around 7:35 at Shin Okubo Station and finished there 17:00.

Listen to Alex's pre-ride motivational speech on our voice message box over on the right of this page. See it? Please leave your own message, if you'd like.  Be nice!  And please subscribe to us on iTunes!  All our recent videos play on your iPod (unlike some of our earlier ones)... 

Yamanote Line #2 is now up:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/newsfromtheotherside/Yamanote_2.m4v

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Tags: NFTOS, Alex Brooke, makikomo, Rob, JR Yamanote Line, Tokyo, Shin-Okubo Station, Japan, Shinjuku Station, cycling, radsport, le velo, ciclismo, DJ Wes, 山の手線, 新大久保駅, 新宿駅, 東京, 日本, 自転車, 電車

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The saga continues. Alex and Rob catch dinner at Bar Uno in Sakuranomiya. Then, over the Ogawa (in view of Osaka Castle), past the "love hotels" and "fashion hotels," past moonwalking toddlers with their grandmas, on to Kyobashi, where they run into a fellow superhero, VodaRanger! Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, JR Loop Line, Osaka, Tenma, Sakuranomiya, Kyobashi, Bar Uno, love hotel, fashion hotel, VodaRanger!

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Here's an old cell phone video Alex shot while we were cycling back from Maishima Sports Island (I think that's when it was) sometime in the summer of 2005. You may have already seen it if you subscribe to the Beb & Alex Show or if you keep up with Bike Club Osaka's forums.

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Tags: NFTOS, JR Loop Line, Alex Brooke, Beb and Alex Show, Bike Club Osaka, Maishima Sports Island, Osaka Dome, cell phone, video, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo, Osaka, Japan, bicycle, cycling, mobile

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Our heroes continue from where they left off at Noda-Hanshin Station (not on the Loop Line) to Fukushima (not Shin-Fukushima as we mistakenly stated in the video), JR Osaka and Tenma stations. Alex demonstrates his bike handling skills while operating a camera, as Rob navigates through the labyrinth of Umeda. Final Destination: Next Stop: Sakuranomiya. While you're waiting for Loop Line #5 to be edited and posted, check out Will Spin's new D'n'B song using samples from JR Tennoji Station, JR Song, and this video shot at Tin's Hall which will be visited during the final Loop Line episode, which I'm guessing will either be Loop Line #6 or 7.

Tags: NFTOS, Alex Brooke, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo, JR, Loop Line, cycling, train, bicycle, cycling, ciclismo, cyclisme, radsport, Fukushima, Umeda, Tenma, Osaka, Japan, 電車, 自転車, 大阪, 日本, 福島, 梅田, 天満, サイクリング

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