Rides, 19, 20

 
From: "Half-Fast Cycling" <bulletin@PROTECTED>
Subject: Rides, 19, 20
Date: April 17th 2025
28!

Degrees is the Saturday forecast, with little wind, and Sunday follows up with 24 degrees and a bit more blowy. Mostly sunny both days. Don’t forget the sunscreen!

So I’m looking at a Kasai Rinkai adventure for Saturday and a shorter jaunt to Jonan Jima on Sunday. In addition, Peter is offering a slightly more ambitious hill-climb on Saturday over the Kazahari Pass.


Saturday Kasai Rinkai Adventure

A lovely ride out to Kasai Rinkai Seaside Park, on the other side of the Mighty Arakawa, out near Disneyland. We’ll start at the Grand Hyatt in Roppongi Hills at 11:00 a.m., head north to the river, wend our way around the park and then back to Odaiba by the most direct route. Beach bar lunch. I think this ride totals 50-55 km. Back by 3:30 or so. 


Sunday Jonan Jaunt

Start at the Hyatt at 11:00 for an easy lope out to a little beach park across from Haneda Airport. Please bring an eco bag for your convenience store lunch. Half-Fast don’t to no single-use plastics. 30 km, possibly stretched to 35. Back by 2:30 at the latest.


Saturday Escape from the Humdrum

...with a ride from Itsukaichi up via the quietest (and most challenging) of the three routes to the top of Tokyo's highest pass (Kazahari, at 1146 metres). Then a long way downhill, a lunch at a table (probably Tachibana-ya), and back to Itsukaichi station.

Setting off at 08:30 from the Akiruno-Hinohara-kaidō branch of Family Mart, https://maps.app.goo.gl/J4rYgWmBa9SwC3Wz7

Very few traffic lights. No traffic jams. Scenery. If we're lucky, the shidare-zakura will still be in bloom. You'll have to get up early, but you should be back at home by mid-afternoon.

Please examine https://ridewithgps.com/routes/48945392 . This is not an introductory hill climb. RwGPS estimates that the whole route has 1680m of climbing (some of it steep); by comparison, going from Takao-san-guchi station "up Takao" (i.e. to the top of Ōtarumi pass) is about 200m of climbing.

Kazahari climb is described in the topmost third of https://funq.jp/bicycle-club/article/560079/ (though its rating of the road surface as one star out of five is bizarre). Your tyres shouldn't be particularly delicate. (But a gravel bike, let alone a mountain bike, isn't necessary -- my own tyres are 28 mm; friends have done it on 23 mm.) Tyres and brakes should be in good condition. Bring all that you'd need for fixing a puncture; also, a windbreaker for the descent, and cash for an inexpensive lunch (and if you're in a hurry, feel free to skip the lunch).

Peter Evans peter.evans.somewhere@PROTECTED (NB I am ancient and slow; hope you don't mind.)


Tokyo Bay Cruise VII

We’ve engaged the Marco Polo for this year’s cruise, on June 14. Mark your calendars. I’ll start pestering people to sign up soon. 
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