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Look for this at the start location to collect your stickers.
Thanks to all those who’ve requested extra stickers to show their enthusiasm and support for the 12th Coast to Coast.
Everyone gets a sticker if they want it and it’s recommended so we can recognise each other out there on the road. Extra stickers are 500yen a piece.
Always great to see one on the back of a helmet or look in the mirror and see one on a windscreen.
See you at sunrise! 🌞

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Just a reminder for new comers that we start at around 4:55am – Sunrise!

Traditionally we do a quick gather and kick off talk at sunrise and then everyone filters out when they are ready.

Please don’t expect people with sticks guiding you to your parking or race queens strutting around for photos. Do expect Twistybutts catching up with each other and plenty of pre-ride excitement.

* SPECIAL NOTE FOR ALL: This year we are starting by a major road. Be mindful of that. There is ample parking other than in front of Lawsons, use it. There’s also private property, be respectful of it.

So, sun’s up at @5am and sets around @6:30pm. That gives us 13hrs of sunlight to ride in. Some inevitably arrive in the dark for the start and the finish and that’s fine. Just remember to enjoy the ride and watch the road carefully.
The perfect finish!

Here’s the traditional photo location for that magic sunset. https://maps.app.goo.gl/VqjEAEdpAFopMvaF6

See you soon Twistybutters!

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When you’ve been dreaming of blue skies and rounding rubber for several months and you see the weather news forecasting rain.

Remain calm, it’s raining pretty steadily out there and it’s currently at 40% chance of rain as it has been this far out on probably 50% of previous Coast to Coast Twistybutts and we can always hope that with several different weather zones, there’s ever better riding just over the ridge.

On Sunday, there were spits on the visor near Kawaguchiko and very overcast by the coast…

But over the ridge into Gotemba and the clouds were higher and holes were being poked in the cloud cover.

Patches of blue stared coming through around Misaka Touge but Fuji was still shy.

So, best not be taking the forecasts too seriously or jumping to tragedies just yet. It’s still early days.

Best save your focus and optimism for the omnipotent guardians and enablers of the Roadwarrior, the Weather Gods!

Let’s have copious offerings and boisterous praise and pleads. Fire, chant, break stuff, masks.. no freaky monstrosity style ones… and song with sacrifice… Whatever gets it done for you!

You do you!

Now’s the time to prep, be realistic, keep researching the route and making sure you are ready and the Weather Gods will be with us. 🤞

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The reopening of one of the highlights on the C2C, the run through the snow walls on the climb up the 292 to the highest point on a national road in Japan, is on schedule and only a few days before we are set to roll through there.

Fingers crossed for big bright white walls this year.

Details here:

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/429e3317d24c0bf11e49d7c32509b47a996dfdfb

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Due to popular demand, this year’s C2C, being the 12th running, will be a no holds barred Dirty Dozen Anniversay Race to the Sea of Japan! The winner will be bathed in victory’s glory and the wounds and tears of their adversaries.
Currently seeking entrants with medical trauma care experience to ride armoured Ambulance Cubs.

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After doing the 1600km ride from Yokohama to Soya Misaki in Hokkaido, the 2000km run from Yokohama to Kagoshima via Joetsu and finally the Yokohama-Hiroshima-Niigata-Karuizawa-Nagoya-Yokohama loop, all the receipts, routes and tracks, photos and ride reports were sent to the IBA for verification. A couple of months later, all of this arrived in the mail.

1600k - 2000k - 2500k
1600k – 2000k – 2500k