Snow Biking in Japan

cycling training on snow with road racing bikes with studded tires

Mt.Tokachidake (Mt.Tokachi) 115

Temperature: minus 4 degrees Celsius at the Tokachidake Hot Springs (Tokachidake Onsen).

It was almost May. The snow on the road was unstable. The road was covered with snow only above the altitude of 1150m. So he had no choice but repeated the interval training between the altitude of 1150 and the summit. At first, the studs reached the asphalt. But we had more and more snow on the road and we had snow deep enough so that the studs do not reach the asphalt in the second half of the training.

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