The hams plan to ride in japan.

So good. Bringing back memories of my travels in Japan back in the mid-2000’s. Really need to get back there.
 
Thanks Spanky, I have spent a decent amount of time in Japan, something over 2 years all up in multiple visits. Mostly down south but still trips around Tokyo and Yokohama and this has prompted a lot of memories. Great place and great people. Inamuragasaki was my favourite spot down Kamakura way, just because I love the name. A friend and I planned a motorbike tour and might get there one day.
 
Dales Cannon said:
Thanks Spanky, I have spent a decent amount of time in Japan, something over 2 years all up in multiple visits. Mostly down south but still trips around Tokyo and Yokohama and this has prompted a lot of memories. Great place and great people. Inamuragasaki was my favourite spot down Kamakura way, just because I love the name. A friend and I planned a motorbike tour and might get there one day.
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We are so lucky to have lived in Japan for a number of years ( due to pure arse luck ) and if we added it all up it would be close to 21% of our life so far.....

Glad to have stirred some rotorbuners memories , and here is our new slightly rotten drunk Japanese worker friend
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Your new friend can't be that drunk yet @Spanky_Ham ... His tie is not yet being worn as a headband!

Good times, thanks for sharing. I am busting to get back. You also have me looking a little harder at where these bike parks are.
 
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Train to Yudanaka and then ride up through Shiga Kogen and Jōshin'estu national park and across into Gunman over Yokoteyama. You may wish to make a stop over in the Shiga Kogen Plateau for a touch of luxury and an onsen. It is very high altitude (you'll ride past the highest chair lift on Japan, along the highest road in Japan, which is closed for winter and a few more months on top) and received the first snow a few weeks ago.

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What's that about the killer plain?
 
Jpez said:
As far as I’m concerned I think Tubbsy with his Santa gets got comp should just fill his hat with 20 bits of paper with Spanky Ham written on it and call him the winner. Twice. Actually maybe split them equally with Yuley. Best threads going.
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I agree. And the Spanky will have to split the winnings with me for being his enabler.

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What's that about the killer plain?
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I only know what Google maps wants to tell me about the killer plain. But the area saw a big volcanic eruption a few years ago that caused death and a lot of chaos at a near by ski field. The ski field hasn't fully reopened since which may or may not be a result of the volcano. The volcano is listed as still active and closed to the public.

If you were wanting to gauge it for a road ride, it's "route 292" joining Nagano and Gunman. If I was planning it is ride from Yudanaka train station in Yamanochi up through Shiga Kogen and down through Kusatsu and Naganohara and picking a train station around there. There may or may not be some restrictions on where you can ride on the route, other than knowing it's the highest road in Japan and gets cut off every winter I don't know anything about the traffic conditions. It is a beautiful area though and excellent skiing.
 
Ok, so who's going to tell them?

Wot, it has to be you, I'm a... voice in your head. You've got all the thumbs and stuff....

Go way, baitin....

No one will get that reference....

Well, instead of shopping.... Look at the title of this thread, is it's spankys Japanese shopping experience...no, no it's not.... So, Fook it.... Let's ride ( Let's face it, we'd buy stuff for pplz we don't really like... And they probably can get on Amazon from Jeff's glands)

We took off up the Tamagawa, it's flat but fairly busy.... We used to ride from home to work and back ( work would cover your train fare both ways, and when you're poor as fwark... The extra yen used to help... And we'd just cycle our way there.. bonus 1000 yen...) so,.we've done this a few times before... Including one day where there was a typhoon and a crazy 45km/h tail wind....

We saw a little critter shaking it's anal antenna ( we're sticking with that description) and it made us giggle like a Japanese school girl...

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Tamagawa mushi

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
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Sorry, we are new at content creation shit.... The music is absolutely fookin horrible.


We saw a comfortable toilet, which was one of 4 toilets.... The other three probably had barbed wire toilet seats? We didn't do a close investigation...

I mean, would you just wait for the comfortable one.... God damn, should.of looked.

After hitting up our old school and scaring the poop out of our old sensei..


It was time to head back


We saw a bird ( yeah, all you bird nerds can tell us what it is) that had trapped a 'little' carp fishy... Usually these birds are well skittish but this one was willing to let us { there was another old.man on a bicycle watching} near it as it looked like a great meal.... It took quite and effort to pick up and arrange so it could become dinner.... But, ding ding ding, the bird was the winner in this round.

So, that's about it... Sorry for lying... It wasn't planned... We are now about 800m from where we will be boarding our plane to head back to reality.

Ahhhh, reality is close enough we can smell it....and it's not good

The Ham, his handler
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Spanky_Ham said:
Ok, so who's going to tell them?

Wot, it has to be you, I'm a... voice in your head. You've got all the thumbs and stuff....

Go way, baitin....

No one will get that reference....

Well, instead of shopping.... Look at the title of this thread, is it's spankys Japanese shopping experience...no, no it's not.... So, Fook it.... Let's ride ( Let's face it, we'd buy stuff for pplz we don't really like... And they probably can get on Amazon from Jeff's glands)

We took off up the Tamagawa, it's flat but fairly busy.... We used to ride from home to work and back ( work would cover your train fare both ways, and when you're poor as fwark... The extra yen used to help... And we'd just cycle our way there.. bonus 1000 yen...) so,.we've done this a few times before... Including one day where there was a typhoon and a crazy 45km/h tail wind....

We saw a little critter shaking it's anal antenna ( we're sticking with that description) and it made us giggle like a Japanese school girl...

youtube.com

Tamagawa mushi

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
youtube.com youtube.com

Sorry, we are new at content creation shit.... The music is absolutely fookin horrible.


We saw a comfortable toilet, which was one of 4 toilets.... The other three probably had barbed wire toilet seats? We didn't do a close investigation...

I mean, would you just wait for the comfortable one.... God damn, should.of looked.

After hitting up our old school and scaring the poop out of our old sensei..


It was time to head back


We saw a bird ( yeah, all you bird nerds can tell us what it is) that had trapped a 'little' carp fishy... Usually these birds are well skittish but this one was willing to let us { there was another old.man on a bicycle watching} near it as it looked like a great meal.... It took quite and effort to pick up and arrange so it could become dinner.... But, ding ding ding, the bird was the winner in this round.

So, that's about it... Sorry for lying... It wasn't planned... We are now about 800m from where we will be boarding our plane to head back to reality.

Ahhhh, reality is close enough we can smell it....and it's not good

The Ham, his handler
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Comfortable toilets and baitin' sounds like a the thoughts of a teenager.

Sad this trip is coming to an end, but thanks for documenting it throughout. I've loved how you really appreciate the little things along the journey.
 
You can keep your comfortable toilet. I would have perched myself on the mizube fun base, and waited for the show to start.
 
@David2406 thank you so very much for your post. We don't do social media ( well, you fat fook.. what's rotorburn then ) and the internet is a freakn toxic shit hole, so if we make one person laugh....


That's payment in full...


This has been a wonderful experience that... Look a few posts up... Blah blah blah.

NIKE management.... Just do it.

Enjoy life, you've got one of them... There's no reset, there's no insert another 200 yen for another go...

Just fookin do it
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