Snow Biking in Japan

cycling training on snow with road racing bikes with studded tires

Shippu

Temperature: minus 4 degrees Celsius in Shippu.

Several roads to Takaoka and Shippu were closed due to bad visibility. Moreover, many roads were unmotorable because they were buried under the tons of snow drifts. He did the training avoiding those roads. Some of them were reopened to the traffic as the sky had cleared up.

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