RabidChi
Warming-Up
- Jul 18, 2019
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Hello, I'm Julien, I had the pleasure of meeting some of you on the ride from the Spaceship to Shiraishi-toge last weekend. I discovered this forum from posts on the Tokyo Ride Planning FB group.
I'm originally French-Canadian from Montreal and I've been living in Tokyo for a little over 2 years.
A few words about my cycling "career":
I started cycling more seriously in 2008 after I became a pedicab "driver" as a student job in Paris. From there I started riding a lot and applying the N+1 rule, road for commuting, cyclocross for forest paths and recumbent for very long distances, culminating in 18,000km in the year of 2011. I rode the 1200km Paris-Brest-Paris in 2011 and 2015 and happened to co-found a bike manufacturer in 2013.
Fast forward to 2019, I'm trying to get back into cycling and into some form of shape after about 3 years of inactivity. For the first time I'm living close to serious climbing opportunities so I'm trying to tap into my genetic predisposition to be a half-decent climber (read: utter skinniness) on an proportionally skinny road bike (Ridley Helium SLX with a few weight-weenieish niche components). I also try to get at least one early weekday morning 80km training ride on the Arakawa every week.
I still let my recumbent freak flag fly by riding a Nazca Quetzal recumbent touring tandem with my wife.
Looking forward to more fun rides!
I'm originally French-Canadian from Montreal and I've been living in Tokyo for a little over 2 years.
A few words about my cycling "career":
I started cycling more seriously in 2008 after I became a pedicab "driver" as a student job in Paris. From there I started riding a lot and applying the N+1 rule, road for commuting, cyclocross for forest paths and recumbent for very long distances, culminating in 18,000km in the year of 2011. I rode the 1200km Paris-Brest-Paris in 2011 and 2015 and happened to co-found a bike manufacturer in 2013.
Fast forward to 2019, I'm trying to get back into cycling and into some form of shape after about 3 years of inactivity. For the first time I'm living close to serious climbing opportunities so I'm trying to tap into my genetic predisposition to be a half-decent climber (read: utter skinniness) on an proportionally skinny road bike (Ridley Helium SLX with a few weight-weenieish niche components). I also try to get at least one early weekday morning 80km training ride on the Arakawa every week.
I still let my recumbent freak flag fly by riding a Nazca Quetzal recumbent touring tandem with my wife.
Looking forward to more fun rides!
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