specialised group of snow cyclists
We
are riders of road racing bikes living in the island called Hokkaido.
Hokkaido is the northernmost island of Japan. The Sea of Japan side of
the archipelago is worldwide known as region where it snows a lot.
Hokkaido doesn’t make an exception. The Sea of Japan side of Hokkaido
has a lot of snow as well and the temperature is lower there in
comparison with the mainland of Japan: Honshu. Thanks to these
meteorological conditions, you have abundant fresh powder snow there.
Hokkaido has worldwide known skiing resorts like Niseko, Furano, Kiroro
etc. But skiing is not the only option for enjoying the winter of Hokkaido.
This environment is extremely suitable for cycling.
Cycling
in the snow is not very popular sport around the world and many of you
think it’s crazy. But no. You can go on bikes safely and comfortably
with suitable equipment. We ride bikes so called snow road racing bikes.
The snow road racing bike is a MTB (mountain bike) equipped with studded
tires, road handlebar and bright tail lamps to be recognised by car
drivers even in low visibility conditions caused by blizzard.
You
wouldn’t feel cold with suitable cloths and you would avoid most of
accidents using good studded tires. Many think you skid easily on snow
or ice. However, in the reality, you have more traction on snow than on
asphalt if you equip your bike with good studded tires and you displace
your centre of gravity suitably.
We
have more than 20 years of experience in this area. We ride bikes on
snow as training for road races. We experienced many different
meteorological conditions:
zero
visibility condition, temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius and so on.
We overcame many difficulties one by one and acquired the know-how to
ride on snow safely and comfortably. To learn our know-how, please refer
to our old side:
cycling training on snow.
On
this site, we are going to show you our training scenes with a lot of
pictures and videos
on the page training reports. The purpose of this site is to show that
you can ride bikes on snow normally as if you ride on asphalt in summer and expand the
knowledge of snow biking (ice biking) around the world. Our future dream
is to holt stage races on snow in Hokkaido.
