I was really worried about you
I won't let you do cycling races anymore..
Hello, Two Wheel Cruise here!
today is race day in Japan
We're in Nagoya at Morikoro Park cycling course
I've got my BMC SLR01 road bike here and my safety vest
I'm not actually racing today. I'm working as a safety support rider
I do this every year
I made a video last fall, and am making a new video today
I just finished my first race
there's three races this time. there was the one-hour race then there's a three hour race and then there's the two-hour race
It's a bit weird, they mix beginners and experts together..
In the first race there weren't too many fast people
the fastest race today will likely be the 2 hour race
had my knee warmers on these are my custom taiyaki knee warmers but I think
I'm gonna be taking these off pretty soon I've also got my nice Wolverine
Sports Club arm warmers I've also got my new DK
Danny Klein socks representing Danny Klein here in Japan legend from the
Detroit Michigan cycling scene so we're gonna be riding a
lot of kilometers today in honor of my good buddy my old teammate Danny Klein
and my goal today is to ride 200k I've got about 35 K right now I'm actually
using my Garmin right now but I just got a new wahoo computer I haven't had time
to test it yet and I'm hopefully gonna make a video about that tomorrow so I
can film the unboxing and the test ride at the first video it's supposed to be a
nice sunny weekend and we've got perfect beautiful weather today nice sunny
weather I'm actually pretty hungry so let's get
a snack real quick before we start the next race so I wrote out here today I've
got my new craft cadence commute bag this thing's huge it can put a bunch of
stuff in there and these are my snacks today so we've got some daifuku some
sesame and I love this lately this is the protein cookie I import this through
I hub I'll leave a link below so you can get this in Japan really cheap if you
buy it in bulk and of course my on pond power and extra water reserves so let's
eat something real quick before we get out to the next race go
Pro ready bikes ready engines ready we're about to start the three-hour race
but we've got a few minutes before they start let's walk around a little bit and
my wife will actually be stopping by a little bit later so you'll see her later
in the video anyway let's take a look around the the race setting
I love the sound on these wheels my training bike is dead silent which I
used to like but now I kind of like the sound so here's our main area we've got
some hot water here you can some coffee tea this is the number pickup area we've
also got the oil sponsor here the podium over there and we've got lots of people
here today enjoying the nice weather those are some nice deep-dish wheels
there and lots of people out nice facility here this is a great park over
in the background there we've got some soccer going on we've got some tennis
going on there's actually a mag rail here that connects so you can get over
here from the city and of course we've got the main building here so nice
bathroom facilities and everything great place to have a race we've also got
people setting up their equipment here under the shade not too hot today
starting to get pretty comfortable pretty warm it's about 15 degrees
Celsius right now gonna get over 22 today nice warm day so once we go down
these stairs we arrived at the psycho tingu station normally you can rent some
bikes here some mama charities 100 yen a lap and we've also got some vending
machines lots of people come out here for dates lots of families come out here
with their kids but today is a race day which means we can ride the course fast
we're getting ready to get started at the three hour race here
we've got two other course volunteers like myself here we got Tim right here
in front of me with our nice beautiful high-vis vest
we got the action music pumping time for the writers meeting have a
message Tim a message to the global audience its Hall it's hot yeah there
are dust matches your bike before the race begins it's my job to ride about a
half kilometer into the course find a nice place for them to start the race
actually starts as a neutral start so the race doesn't officially start until
I wave this flag so I leave a few minutes before the start find a nice
spot and then stand there and wave the flag and scream start so let's go find a
good place to set up
and that's the start let's get on the course
unfortunately some bad luck was in a big crash the front group came with another
big group and kind of makes the level some slow people some fast people and
just too crowded and went down this is my nice wounds here cars coming to pick
us up and my wheels flatted three people here but more people went down the
tights look ok so that's good wounds here and the bike is mostly ok I think
they drove us back over here to get some first aid first so we'll check out the
bike in a little bit but for sure the front wheel the tires gone
it's flatted and there's a few small scratch marks that I noticed but
hopefully no big damage to the frame anyway let's get the wound treated and
unfortunately not going to get the 200k I wanted today got an eighty case so far
today let's see if we can find some solution for me to ride the rest of the
day they're still and now we're left in this race and the 2 hour race after this
and tuned just arrived good timing there is a new Daniel and Kido keys here he's
gonna be racing the 2 hour race next
thank you don't press yeah
and song's getting lots of pictures of my ruins
anyway cooling just came to say hi bring some food so she's gonna be leaving John
nay and according to her I'm not allowed to enter any other races but today's
race is a little special because they mix the beginner and advanced categories
together the only reason this crash happened was because the beginners and
the fast guys got a little too close together and the person in front of me
unfortunately went down there was no place for me to go and for anyone to go
at least like ten people went down and three people weren't able to continue so
anyway I'm gonna get back on the course get back to work and show you guys some
other parts of the race I'll be taking a little easier now I won't be riding in
the fast group anymore let's get back on the road
three our guys just finished and the two our guys getting their bikes lined up
we've got some cool bikes here so let's take a quick look
first we've got glittery specialized bends here this is a pretty intense
paint job yeah really shiny hope he's not racing with this and light we don't
need those in a race we've got a black and pink giant Canyon felt every bikes
are different trick oh and I recognize this bike this is he doki's look DeRosa
everybody's on something different today Ascot and a bunch of other people
starting to line up getting ready for the 2 hour so here's my BMC you can see
we got a little scratch right here and a little scratch right here I'm hoping
this is just a scratch and there's one other little scratch right here that's
the main damage to the main body there's some scratches here on the shifter on
the one side but that's pretty much it the wheel itself you can see it is just
destroyed here and the tire pretty nasty the wheel itself is still true the tire
is pretty destroyed and there's some damage on the rim here but should still
be usable unfortunately I don't have a spare tire right now so fortunately
we're borrowing these carbon wheels right here but since their carbon wheels
and I'm borrowing them from someone I just met
I'm definitely gonna be riding a lot safer in the next race Jonny guns get
the guy didn't got to get on video today I see so qaddafi Nikki Michelle
chuchito can't punch it out a team tonight comes
another local kids get the Nama painted up Cancellara caucus today so we are dr.
Ikuma lection Akana so we unfortunately crashed together and
his friend who kudos on saved me today and lent me his wheel so I was able to
finish today's ride so thanks to cooking us on and
they live nearby and nation you know I'm not going on yeah oh never mind they
live a little bit nearby so hopefully we're gonna be doing some training
together nearby I told them about our sprint workout the hey wacko and sprint
workout that we do so maybe they'll come out anyway to kill let's go to some of
this stuff shop money guy you thought equals already muster he's going after
my kom you see any gum borrow how do you lose a mess how many youtube you know
car bomb or stick arm or knee my name oh yeah but to give us on a bike
protein shake time I was pretty worried about how I was gonna get home but
fortunately Jim is lending me his front wheel he drove here so he's taking my
punctured wheel I'm gonna go pick it up later and so now I can actually go ride
home luckily it's only about 5 7 K for me to get home from here mostly downhill
we're doing the podium time right now so I started today's video with the idea
with the plan of riding 200 K pushing myself to the limit and unfortunately I
wasn't able to make it happen today things don't always go according to plan
crash wasn't expected and unfortunately went down but fortunately all in one
piece just two flesh wounds and hopefully minimal damage to the bike
let's hope it's just the tire let's hope it's just a few scratches and I'm really
crossing my fingers for that right now I had a great time today had a lot of
people come out saying like the channel always loved when a band comes to say hi
and made some new friends today great to make new friends new cycling
acquaintances and new training buddies it's really funny with the one guy he's
said he's targets some of my Strava kid segments and he's actually taking one of
my segments before and I was angry I got the mail and I went out and took it back
the next day so we've had this sort of like little rivalry going on Strava so
always fun to push each other that's what I love about the sport and he's
more let's finish today's vlog here thanks for watching as I mentioned
earlier in the video I'm gonna be testing out my new wahoo cycling
computer tomorrow so check out for that video and as always thanks for watching
we'll see you next time here on tool crews they should have subscribed if
you're interested in seeing more videos about cycling life in Japan
and we'll see you guys in the next video later so you know quit