The hams plan to ride in japan.

Spanky_Ham said:
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I want send! I want chair lifts, gravity, send send send! I want a reason to rebuild my 951 and rip skids. The only place I know doing lifted runs is Iwatake in Hakuba and it looks sadly very lame. I mean tame. I'll take a Y suggestions you can throw up, poodle style or otherwise, as I would like to put one of my bikes in a box next spring and check them out. I can think of no other place in the world that would come close for convenience, price, safety/security (bikes are expensive and easy to steal), and (hopefully not needed) medical support when shit goes wrong. Think of all those struggling snow fields reinventing their off season as ride destinations...
 
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I want send! I want chair lifts, gravity, send send send! I want a reason to rebuild my 951 and rip skids. The only place I know doing lifted runs is Iwatake in Hakuba and it looks sadly very lame. I mean tame. I'll take a Y suggestions you can throw up, poodle style or otherwise, as I would like to put one of my bikes in a box next spring and check them out. I can think of no other place in the world that would come close for convenience, price, safety/security (bikes are expensive and easy to steal), and (hopefully not needed) medical support when shit goes wrong. Think of all those struggling snow fields reinventing their off season as ride destinations...
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When I get back to ostraylia buzz me and I'll hunt through all my MTB adventures in Japan. If my memory serves me correctly, fujimi is the best one ( note we only had a 'trail' bike) but the C course kept us well amused.

S

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Well, the crawl out of Tokyo sucked like a Dyson on speed.... We got all the red lights and at one stage the road and pathways were so narrow we had a really close encounter with a container truck... And we were on the 'footpath'... Did 140 km of bland cycling ( but... It was fun wasn't it?... Yeah, ok... It was good) and ended up at the mouth of the Tone river {Tonegawa} the camp site we wanted was full, so a quick cycle around to find a hotel started. Got a nice hotel for about 90 bucks and will hit up somewhere for food after a long shower..

They have an onsen here, so might go and scare all the locals.....

Anyone got shared in Japanese mind bleach companies.. probably going to skyrocket in an hour or so...
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Just had a wonderful meal with a guy who captained a Japanese ice breaker!!! I think he thought I didn't believe him, then he shared pics with me... Yeah, this guys a farkin legend!!!!

This pig is possibly the most lucky porcined one on the planet....

We shared pictures of our journey and he was amazed.....

Mutual amazement!

Oh, and yes, we are still hella sunburnt...

Now, where is that beer...

S
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Today was just a battle between the fat meat sack, the wind and a mental black spot.

Started well, with a fast 50km... Then it all went pear/pair shaped.... Had to keep stopping and asking random fisher people what river we were on... Kept getting google telling us to go back multiple kms to get back on the same track we were already on...

Pushed 110 odd kms and decided to hit up a container hotel again as there was one within 12 kms of where we were when we checked how to cross a river... That somehow we had already crossed

We think we need to fuel and hydrate better and take more time to enjoy the trip....

Time for a mental check and scrub....

Oh and we probably headbuttes a few dozen crickets, eaten or inhaled multiple bugs and watched a guy fly a model plan that made us want to puke...

Good day?

S

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Spanky_Ham said:
Today was just a battle between the fat meat sack, the wind and a mental black spot.

Started well, with a fast 50km... Then it all went pear/pair shaped.... Had to keep stopping and asking random fisher people what river we were on... Kept getting google telling us to go back multiple kms to get back on the same track we were already on...

Pushed 110 odd kms and decided to hit up a container hotel again as there was one within 12 kms of where we were when we checked how to cross a river... That somehow we had already crossed

We think we need to fuel and hydrate better and take more time to enjoy the trip....

Time for a mental check and scrub....

Oh and we probably headbuttes a few dozen crickets, eaten or inhaled multiple bugs and watched a guy fly a model plan that made us want to puke...

Good day?

S

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Easy to get lost on back roads, especially with the weird (to us) house and building numbering. No shame, just wear and tear. A mate's family owns a mountain near Hiroshima airport. Yeah we got lost among the other mountains looking for it.
 
Spanky_Ham said:
Today was just a battle between the fat meat sack, the wind and a mental black spot.

Started well, with a fast 50km... Then it all went pear/pair shaped.... Had to keep stopping and asking random fisher people what river we were on... Kept getting google telling us to go back multiple kms to get back on the same track we were already on...

Pushed 110 odd kms and decided to hit up a container hotel again as there was one within 12 kms of where we were when we checked how to cross a river... That somehow we had already crossed

We think we need to fuel and hydrate better and take more time to enjoy the trip....

Time for a mental check and scrub....

Oh and we probably headbuttes a few dozen crickets, eaten or inhaled multiple bugs and watched a guy fly a model plan that made us want to puke...

Good day?

S

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Tough day in the office. Hopefully, a good scrub, comfy sleep, and double dose of breakfast sets your GPS to 'accurate'.
 
Second day up the Tonegawa



Sat the pig down last night and asked why that day sucked so much.... No real answer, so we planned that tomorrow we would break the day into 3x3 hour lots with no final destination and if it went to shit, we could pull the pin at any time.


Put the mirror away and got to bed after a lot of calories.


Got up early, and it was a bit cold... But nothing 20 minutes cycling couldn't fix.


Up the Tonegawa which is Japan's longest** bike path.... And the first 30km flew by.... Easy


Then, there was work being done on the massive levies that this path runs along... And the diversions were sometimes well marked... Others.... Yeah, not so well marked.


On a third attempt to get around some works we came across another dead end, but ended up seeing two kingfishers which in the sun were just amazing.... and the pig agreed, if we hadn't been poodling around, we never would have seen them.


We also saw a Japanese ferrety thing, it jumped out of the long grass before jumping back in and we hope we got that on video! Hope hope hope....

Also saw our first mamushi snake that we ushered off the bike path to avoid it getting squashed. The riders behind me were freaking out, but it was so beautiful.

Met a stellar mate who rode in our draft for about 40km ( this fat arse, and the panniers give great draft apparently ) and then gave us great directions before he pulled off to head home...


The last 30km was just great..... Along side the bubbling river on a superb bike path.... A quick check of google showed a hostel nearby, which we successfully navigated too ( about 1km before we got there, the road went over a train line... Grind up and weeeeeeee down.... But then we saw it.... A fook off steep short ramp and we had got a heap of speed on the way down... Got the front wheel over ok, but the rear hit it hard... Both panniers { Oddjob, look away} were ripped from their bottom connections and sent the bike into a bar slapper.....with the panniers adding to the pendulum affect sliding the rear tyre around the footpath.... Fuck the pig... Just, just kept it together)


Now, sitting outside the hostel, it has a bar and cafe do we don't have to move from here.... But, what a great day.

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Spanky_Ham said:
Met a stellar mate who rode in our draft for about 40km ( this fat arse, and the panniers give great draft apparently ) and then gave us great directions before he pulled off to head home...
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Typical roadie... rather than offer to give you a tow for a bit, sits behind the poor bloke lugging a 30kg bike across the country and tells you how good the slipstream is back there.
 
If I recall correctly the Tonegawa, if it runs from Nikko, is where I took a photo of a sign which says do not piss in the river. I will look for said pic.
 
Mattyp said:
Typical roadie... rather than offer to give you a tow for a bit, sits behind the poor bloke lugging a 30kg bike across the country and tells you how good the slipstream is back there.
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Poor guy looked a bit worn out by the time I overtook him, so happy to have him draft me for all the directions he gave... The watts burned were well and truly saved by his directions. And, hey, we were just in such a great mood....

And the number of bugs the pig ate today definitely added up to some serious protein calories.

S

P.s. this hostel is awesome!
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Japan loves a swing at the moment. Iwatake ski field recently turned off a chair lift and converted the top platform into a giant swing. You need to pay for your epic insta shots, but...the fucking lift was a good one!
 
rockmoose said:
Is a fucking lift for lazy rooters?
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Not that I would ever engage in a risky piece of shall we say public displays of affection, but I have heard .... Gondola cars are easy, chairlifts are complicated but not impossible.
 
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