Arigatou - A Cycling Film By Restrap 

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Glad you enjoyed it Rafael :)

Thanks Jamie! We have another "holiday" in the pipeline

Trip of a lifetime.

Thank you Francesco!

Cheers Toby

Cheers legends.

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Thanks Jeff! Get it done, I'd recommend it to anyone that has the chance to.

We'd love to come to Thailand one day and ride bikes! :D

Hi, we don't unfortunately! We are currently in the process of putting together our next film from our Scottish Trip, so we'll be sure to get a bike check in for it!

We have some content planned in for Gravel riding soon, be sure to subscribe to stay in the loop! ;)

I hope you have an amazing time! Here is a link to the gpx files - You will want Days 8, 9 and 10 :) drive.google.com/open?id=1gMZKGrLHCM2Nus2wOmqJxxiw4Yn3v2JL

@@Restrapltd Thanks, I'll take the Large Restrap Rando bag with me, perfect for my camera gear!

@@JeanTheRa Be sure to send us some photos - we miss these days on the bike!

I saw this comment before watching and was like come on mate, no one does a bike trip without a helmet, that would be irresponsible and stupid in such a arrogant way….yet here they are wearing caps…

@@shalaskaja452 yep.... and it was a close call....

This was a personal choice - mainly to cut down on bulk while touring and also to stay cool in the warmer weather. We did check the law in Japan and riding without a helmet is legal, so we made the choice to ride without them to keep our heads cool more than anything. Again, a personal choice.

Sometimes, when I feel sage on the road, I don‘t wear a helmet either.

Thanks for watching. In total it was 832km in distance, 9,014m in elevation and rice balls were about 6 a day amongst all sorts of other snacks.

Thanks Simon, 517 miles all together - www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1_eHa5rGdz9P7C2VwjB7xezqX52vXtpg5

Hey John, I hope you have a great time. We actually did this trip before we knew about Komoot so this was all done at a dining table with a combination of Strava, Google earth and "connect the dots" attitude. Naturehike tents ftw.

@@Restrapltd cheers for the reply guys. Once the typhoon has blown through Tokyo I'm off!

That's right, we took the train to Osaka City Station from the Airport. It was easy. Looking on google we saw the only road from the airport to the mainland looked like a freeway with no cycleway, so we hauled the bike boxes onto the train. We didn't encounter any issues. You will need to do the same because apparently bikes need to be in a box or Rinko bag before they're allowed on a train.

Stupid, not brave.

That’s one way to describe it.

Traffic in Japan was a mixed bag - people are courteous for the most part, the trucks and K Cars tend to give little room. Cities are crazy but countryside is totally fine.

@@Restrapltd Awesome, thanks for the reply dude ;) I was hoping to get out that way myself this year but I'll have to sit on that plan for a while. all the best

香港戀歌 by Sadistics

Hi Rome, Sorry about that - we've updated the route file in the description. It'll now take you to our Komoot page with the route on there.

@@Restrapltd thanks :-)

We like to acknowledge the classics

I appreciate it might seem like we just left him in the film but I'll write a bit more of a detailed synopsis of what happened. After riding past Mt Fuji, we ended up on an incredibly busy motorway type of road which we only carried on with because of the amount of road-cyclists also on it. We wanted to get off it as soon as possible so we were riding around 22mph in a line formation to clear it quickly. It was during this that Joe went off the back after a puncture while in a tunnel where we couldn't hear him shout. When we realised he was no longer with us we moved to the side of the road to wait imagining he had gotten a puncture or mechanical. After an hour we started stopping passing cyclists to ask them if they had seen anyone to match his description, absolutely none of them had. This made us think he had turned off the road. After looking at google maps for 10 minutes, we saw there were 20 turn-offs he could of taken.. all leading to different towns but then reconnecting with the road we were on, closer to our destination for the day. As he had no method of communication, we decided the best thing to do was to carry on to Hadano as he was no longer on the road we were following and he was likely waiting for us further down the route, maybe even at our destination. It was there that we contacted the police to search for him and he walked in moments later. The reason no one saw Joe who was cycling down the same road as us is because Joe thought it would be safer to climb over the road barrier and into some bushes to fix his puncture, which is where he was bitten and passed out. It was all very distressing losing our friend with no phone and waiting for him at different intervals for about 3-4 hours in total and we were just making group decisions based on what we could do. The moral of the story... always have a group meeting point, methods of communicating each other and a strong knowledge of where you are going for the day in case you end up getting separated.

@@Restrapltd Did you work out what he was bitten by?

@@NoName-ot8uu No idea! Joe was absolutely out of it when he arrived though and slept like a baby that night.

What equipment are you interested in Fabian? :)

@@Restrapltd Perhaps I should've been more specific, but I'm interested in your camping gear. Forgot the timestamp, but I saw that you guys set up a tent in a city out of everyone's way and I'm curious about which tents and sleeping bags you guys used for that climate

@@Fabian-ob2mh No worries at all! Our first night on the outskirts of Osaka was more because we originally went the wrong way (gps was set to navigate to beginning of the route which was at the airport, and we found out we had to get a train into the city in the first place). The tents we used were Naturehike Cloud up 2 and unless it was raining we only slept in the inner to keep a breeze flowing through. All our sleeping bags were different but I used a Snugpak Jungle Bag because of its built-in mosquito net and light-weight body. Also used a Sea to Summit sleeping mat. All of that and a down-jacket fit into the 14L Saddle Bag :)

We didn't see any Giant Hornets, but we did see some huge wasps (about the size of your thumb) regularly high up in the mountains. Pretty scary!

Japan would be the only country I would dare to ride without..

Jaap because the streets are so soft?

@@georgstemmer9400 yes, it's the sushi base they use for roads.