The Japanese Odyssey

An ultracycling adventure across Japan

Who Are We?

We are Emmmanuel and Guillaume, both French, spinning our wheels in Strasbourg, France.
As kids, we could ride our bikes all day long, going wherever our bike got us. We could also vanish a whole afternoon, hiding in a garage and working on the bike. We remember those days back with great trepidation. Being on our bikes was about exploring our small neighbourhood, and encountering people. For us, the Japanese Odyssey celebrates the core values of cycling, when every ride is an adventure.

Team Broomwagon

Each year, we take the departure of the Odyssey with the riders, closing the pack, trying to get to the finish on just on time.
Hence the name of our duo: “Team Broomwagon”.

Spoiler alert: Team Broomwagon often doesn’t finish the Odyssey on time. We didn’t want to lower the difficulty just to accomodate our (declining) fitness level. Rest assured, we will suffer just as much as you do.