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Well that's awesome.
Great idea leaving a bike in Japan. Riding was great, but bike bags were a proper faff at times though. I would definitely do this if my partner's mum's apartment was bigger than a shoe box!
jono84-
Thanks! Yeah, it's a huge pain. When you have to go to smaller airports outside of Tokyo it's hard to get a bike bag or box through security. A couple of times I've had to open the bag up and show them that it's just a bike in there. The large x-ray machines aren't large enough for decent bike luggage in most airports.
Then last year, my flight got cancelled til the next day and half my stuff (including bike) was left at heathrow and sent over when they located it four days later. Got about three rides in during the two week trip and two of them were in heavy rain.
Much better if I can land, have a few beers and a full nights sleep then simply grab the bike and go when I feel like it.
Does seem a shame that the bike will only get used for a very small chunk of time each year though!
roboto
Got round to building this up at the weekend after my CAAD12 got stolen a week ago. Checked the weather and saw it was going to be good weather for a while so decided to get on with it.
Ridley Helium Small
Sram Red groupset with Praxis chainset (52/36 x 11-26)
FFWD F4R clinchers with Schwalbe One Evo 25c tyres
Zipp SL 110mm -17ยบ stem
ITM Millennium bars
USE Sumo seatpost
Fabric Scoop and Fabric bartape
Nokon cables
King Ti cages
7.4kg as pictured
I go to visit my in-laws in Japan every summer and travelling with a bike each time is stressful and can be expensive. So the plan for this is to take it out there this year and leave it there so I have something to hit the mountains with each year.
I've been dialling in the setup this week and I'm pretty happy with it. First time using Nokon cables and they are really worth the extra money so far compared to other cables I've used like Jagwire.