This amazing derailleur is an unassuming, off-the-shelf, mid-range Shimano model that has been refinished with a very fetching and striking, metal-flake, design.

The repainting was done by Kakiku RE Bicycle Workshop, based in Fukuoka, Japan. They appear to have decorated a number of Shimano components, and even groupsets, in this, touchingly Japanese, way.

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The base derailleur here is a Shimano 105 (5800 L SS).

Kakiku RE Bicycle Workshop appear to call this design 'Cherry Blossom'.

The 'Cherry Blossom' or 'Sakura' motif has a long history in Japanese art. It is associated with an appreciation of the fleeting nature of life, with hope and rebirth and with friendship and goodwill.

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• Derailleur brands: Shimano, repainted by Kakiku RE Bicycle Workshop
• Categories: Shimano - weirdness
• Country: Japan
• Date of introduction: 2017?
• Date of this example: 2017 (two letter code 'PE')
• Model no.: 5800 L SS
• Weight: 229g
• Maximum cog: 28 teeth (Shimano)
• Total capacity: 33 teeth (Shimano)
• Pulley centre to centre: 60mm
• Index compatibility: 11 speed
• Chain width: 3/32”
• Logic: top normal
• B pivot: sprung
• P pivot: sprung
• Materials: composite p-knuckle, steel inner parallelogram plate, the rest of the major parts are aluminium.