Izu is an old favourite riding zone for many a Kantonian. At colder times of the year, and when the higher altitude roads are closed or less than ideal, it becomes a winter refuge of great riding.
What better place to host the last Twistybutt for 2025 and another new ride for this year?
(more…)After 14 years of the original spring Coast to Coast Twistybutt, we now have a proven fall/autumn Coast to Coast Twistybutt, too. It’s still from the Pacific to the Sea of Japan, but in the Chubu region. We held our first one this past Sunday and here’s how it went down.
Eight riders met by the mouth of the Tenryu River in Shizuoka on the Pacific coast with typhoon whipped swell crashing and tubing in the distance. The typhoon had scared off more than a few of the 22 registered entrants with threats of rain all week. But those that did rock up at the start were keen and the atmosphere was great, despite the overcast weather and dark brooding clouds blanketing the mountains to the north, where we were headed.
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With eight more sleeps before the rubber meets the road for the inaugural Chubu C2C, it’s time to make earnest salutations to the Weather Gods for clear skies and dry roads.
We all have our own way with this, so you do what works for you. Bow, pray, grovel. Burn stuff, chant, howl! Hug boulders, lay exposed in a meadow, look an eagle in the eye. Lather yourself in honey and breadcrumbs and stand in the sun till crispy. Whatever works for you!
So, look up, the Weather Gods are listening and now is the time for the Twistybutts to let them hear us!
The came, they saw (and didn’t run away) and they rounded rubber. Well done to the four brave souls who hit the road today in less than optimal conditions and made a twistyfest of it!
Helmets off to Neil, Mike, Arun and Devin. Legends. 👍
The weather never stood a chance. 😎
This image is for fantasy collector cards and motorcycle magazine centre folds only. *No brake fluid was harmed in the making of this image.
The google map for route checking on Day 1 and Day 2 are a different format. It has been requested to do both of the routes in the same format as Day 2. Done and shared.
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Check your registered email Twistybutts.
If you haven’t registered yet, best get on it.
It’s now a two day 1000km+ twistyfest!
The 4am alarm went off, but I’d stayed up watching the MotoGP Sprint race the night before and decided to grab another three and a half hours shut eye. Finally got on the road just before 8am, almost 4 hours behind schedule but feeling well rested and ready to roll!
(more…)With the Mountain Day Twistybutt just over a month away and route possibilities still swimming around in my melon, it was time to check off two gnarly passes that traverse the ridges separating Yamanashi and Shizuoka.
(more…)The sun shone all day and the breeze stayed cool, though a little gusty northwest of Fuji. Still, the Road Gods were smiling, keeping our path clear and perfectly twistilicious!
Being delayed a week by rain meant fewer than half of those who’d registered made it to the start, but for those who did, what a great day for a ride, right?!
