Where is the road?

August 12, 2017

During the previous years, we realised that the roads we enjoyed the most were the small, remote, secondary roads ; usually the one we encountered when we got lost.
So we decided to take the riders on those.
We set up segments instead of checkpoints, forcing the riders to take the roads we selected. This edition promised to be the wildest and more exotic so far.
But unseasonal heavy rains hit Japan a few weeks before the event, and damaged severely some backroads ; to the point that some of our selected segments proved themselves unrideable.
Our motto « be prepared » took another turn as the riders and the organisers had to improvise on the fly to pursue their ride toward Kitakyushu.