Had some time, so i did a short bike tour when i was in Tokyo. A relaxing 3 hour ride in 20+ degrees. I must say that it was fun, safe and something i would recommend especially wifi you enjoy cycling. Granted that the other routes that are 6 hours long might offer a little more variety, but if you have just half a day, it is totally worth it.
Bike route, photos and some brochures that i picked up along the way below.
Did a cruising ride with the intention of going the distance, given the fact that i haven’t ridden for a while, i thought this would help to get my cadence for riding back up.
Somehow, i ended up simply trying to see how long i could go just going along the Park Connector Network starting from Buona Vista. I ended up in Choa Chu Kang and discovered a few parks around that area which was really nice. Took a ride down some routes that i have never ridden before too and ended up at 10-Mile Junction. I made a wrong turn at that point and didn’t manage to make it to ZhengHua Park. But taking on Bukit Timah slopes was something i haven’t done in a while too.
Anyhow, i’ll try to make it to ZhengHua next time. That should give a rather good 50km+ ride.
Route Map and Videos coming up.
If you have a nighthawk X6 from Netgear and think that you have a great router… boy are you right! Until you turned on all the features and run a speed test. To your horror, you realise that you just can’t hit the maximum bandwidth your ISP has provided. Perhaps getting stuck at about ~350Mbps to ~400Mbps.
Word of advice. Turn OFF the traffic meter, and life would be great again. Something around ~800+ Mbps type of great.
This post comes a couple of days after riding the Shimanami Kaido. It’s took a while to convince myself that it was worth writing this but I guess it serves as a way of concluding my first ever long distance ride overseas. The best part of which was it was done with a loved one.
The worst part? Was that my Garmin hung midway through the ride and I lost a days worth of ride track. Looking at the bright side, was that I didn’t lose everything, thanks to Strava on my iPhone…Â Continue reading Riding the Shimanami Kaido