Which country is the best for cycling?

Full cycling route on Strava – https://www.strava.com/activities/645…
Thuong’s Strava – https://www.strava.com/activities/645…
Gopro 4k cycling video

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A HUGE thank you to Kaze bicycles for helping support our channel with these awesome bikes to ride!

KAZE BICYCLES is a Japanese inspired bicycle brand based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Kaze (風) means wind, so the brand name literally means “ride like the wind”

Kaze bikes website – https://ridekaze.bike/

This is Thuong’s first time on a fully carbon road bike with carbon wheels. Fully aero, stiff, and a beautiful color to top things off. So needless to say, we’re both pretty stoked right now and will be putting a LOT of miles on these bikes 🙂

Thuong is riding the matte white frame. Cruise is riding the glossy red/black frame. Which one do you like better?

Today’s ride (Thuong’s Strava) – https://www.strava.com/activities/638…
Today’s ride (Cruise’s Strava) – https://www.strava.com/activities/638…

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Bangkok Sky Lane Cycling Track around Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Also known as the Happy & Healthy Bike Lane (HHBL)

This is a 25km+ dedicated cycling path and one of the best cycling routes in Thailand. No cars, only bikes allowed!

During the middle of the day there aren’t many cyclists on the track, but after it begins to get dark, they turn the lights on and thousands of cyclists ride the track every night.

This is one of the best places I’ve ever ridden a bike, especially the safe bike path for training, the huge cycling community, and plenty of healthy food options at the facility.

Official website and information about cycling course https://www.hhblbikelane.com/

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Lumpini Park is one of the biggest parks in Bangkok Thailand and a popular place for cyclists since they have a dedicated bike lane and cyclists can escape the very dangerous roads of Bangkok.

Lumpini Park cycling course open hours: between 10am and 3pm.

Outside of this time, they do not allow bicycles on the course since the park quickly gets very busy with other people and runners.

Full cycling route on Strava – https://www.strava.com/activities/6246753372

Gopro 4k cycling video 4K Thailand Walking Tours – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWISXflLbjk

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Lake Biwa is the largest lake in Japan and is one of the best cycling routes in Japan. They have protected shared pedestrian / cycling roads around most of the entire lake.

In today’s ride, we are starting in Maibara and riding South East towards Oohashi (the big bridge) near Kyoto.

Full cycling route on Strava – https://www.strava.com/activities/6172851405

Gopro 4k cycling video

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Why foreigners leave Japan – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2GtYnQzi2w

Why we are leaving Japan – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ6Ay6EttQs

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This is the full 4 hour bike ride tour video filmed in 4k for your viewing pleasure.

This video is part of a West Japan Cycling Trip series we did in September 2020.

See our full playlist here.

Today’s ride on Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/4057663844

Gopro 4k cycling video

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This video is part of a West Japan Cycling Trip series we did in September 2020.

See our full playlist here.

Thanks to Nana-chan for showing us around Osaka!

Japanese channel – English channel

Today’s ride on Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/4095276988

Gopro 4k cycling video

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東海シクロクロス第5戦愛知牧場ステージ1に夫婦で挑戦してみました。
私はC1カテゴリーで、妻は初心者のCL3カテゴリーでした。

Today’s course is at Aichi Bokujo, which is a small farm near where we live in eastern Nagoya, Japan. It is the biggest and most popular race in the Tokai CX series, and also the best course. It’s full of steep climbs, off camber turns, burms, a steep staircase, and of course a heckling section.

Aichi Bokujo CX Course Full Lap

I’ve separated the course pre-ride full lap video to a separate video, which you can watch here

Today was Thuong’s first ever cycling race, which was really exciting for us both.

Race Results

My goal was to get into the top 10, and I was on pace to do that for the first half of the race, but then blew up on lap 5 and couldn’t hold the fast pace any more. I gradually lost some spots, but managed to get a second wind on the last 2 laps and held off a large group to stay in the top 20.

I think my performance was largely affected by my diet lately. Too many end of year parties, most of which are all you can eat.. It’s not always about how much you train, but diet and recovery are also very important. I was quickly reminded of this during today’s race..

That’s it for today, looking forward to the next race!

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Because of the category upgrade, my race time increased from 40 minutes to 60 minutes. In addition, about half of today’s course is covered in deep sand, meaning lots and lots of PAIN and running. To make things even worse, one of the long sand sections was uphill..

Honestly, most of the races up until this point this season have left me frustrated and with leftover energy. This is mostly due to poor / narrow course design and limited courses that were not very challenging. That was not the case today as the course was very wide open and gave me plenty of chances to power my way through.

My goal was a top 10 finish and I was able to finish pretty close to that goal with a respectable 11th and only a few seconds off. I finished the race completely depleted of energy and with a broken shifter from all of the sand, but deeply satisfied with leaving everything out there.

Even more motivated now to continue with my training and look forward to the next race!

CX Race Results
https://data.cyclocross.jp/race/7018

東海シクロクロス第4戦ワイルドネイチャープラザ
砂地獄と呼ばれているレースにC1デビュー挑戦してみました。
今シーズンの今までのコースはほとんどすごく狭くて力を出せるチャンスはあまりなかったですが今日のレースは違います。逆に力を使い切っちゃいました（笑）。久しぶりに全力で走れて嬉しいです。次のレースも頑張りたいと思っています。

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One of the reasons I don’t ride my mountain bike very often is because there are not many decent trails nearby where I live in Japan. It’s mostly just steep dirt road climbs, but nothing that I would consider a real mtb trail, and anything that is halfway decent is quite far from where I live. Since I don’t have a car, it is a bit difficult and so I unfortunately don’t get to do much mtb riding currently.

Fortunately, my friend Junji started riding mtb recently and has a big car, so this might mean that there is more mountain biking ahead in my future 🙂

This trail is located in Gifu, but it’s right by Inuyama city, which is right on the border of Aichi prefecture, which is where I live. Although it’s only really about 40km away, it took us about 2 hours to get there due to tiny roads (traffic in Japan is not the best..). But it was well worth the wait, as these were by far the best trails that I’ve ridden in Japan so far.

I tried to include as much of the trail as possible in raw video, so hopefully it will serve as a reference for anyone interested in coming out here.

Here’s the website information. Be careful to not ride on areas that are not designated mountain bike course areas.
http://kakamigahara-kanko.jp/?p=228

Address: 6797-1 各務車洞 Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture 504-0102
Hours: 9-5 everyday

Overall, there are a little less than 10km of different trails that can be ridden in this area that are all well maintained and completely free to ride. Some are beginner friendly, while others are a bit more intermediate (mostly just tree roots and narrow paths). Another important thing is that there is a decent amount of elevation gain on this course which will leave you pretty tired by the end of your session.

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This event was the 10th annual BikeNavi Grand Prix 2018 (aka Tour de Moricoro), which is held at the Moricoro Park cycling course, which is a 5km circuit closed off to cars and walkers, making it a great place to ride (and race) road bikes!

Here’s some more information about the event for those interested.
http://www.bikenavi.net/08Moricoro2018/02.html

They hold road races on this course every few months, though they are sometimes done through different race promoters.

Here’s a video of a full lap of the course at race speed in the top group.

Also, a big thanks again to Zac from BMC Japan for lending me this great bike (SLR 01) to use for the event since my main road bike was still in the shop.

Today’s ride on STRAVA
https://www.strava.com/activities/1983359293

The awards ceremony after the race was also a lot of fun, and we got to have our cheerleader podium girl debut.

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