Bicycle Culture Center / Grips B
Bicycles, first produced some 190 years ago, have developed to become the most basic form of conveyance of everyday life. On display in Bicycle Plaza at the Bicycle Culture Center are bicycles that give a visual picture of the history of the bicycle. (For more information, see the January 2009 issue of the PR magazine pla-topia.) http://cycle-info.bpaj.or.jp/bcc-info/bcc_hiroba.html
Before the Showa 30s decade (1955-1964), plaster-called nerimono (paste) in Japanese-was hardened to make grips. Grips made of celluloid also appeared during this period.
