Bike training on snow

A temperature of 20 degrees Celsius below zero, visibility is limited to 10m because of a strong snowfall, roads are covered with hard ice, it's not an excuse for us not to ride bikes every day. The majority of cyclists might not know the existence of people who ride bikes on snow more than 1000km a month, who go over mountains in blizzard and who ride at 60km/h on ice. And we are such people. We live in Hokkaido which is one of the islands of Japan. It snows a lot there. In summer, we are cyclists in road racing and in winter, we train on snow with road racing bikes for snow or mountain bikes. Snow is our most important training partner.

On this website, we are going to introduce our training in the snow and give you some advice on snowbiking from our experience. In addition, this site presents our training scenes with a lot of photos in the section Training reports.

Note: Instead of the word "icebiking", a word "snowbiking" is also used to describe this sport. However, many confuse this word with a sport using ski with a frame similar to bike's. To avoid such confusion, nowadays we use the word "icebiking".

tips for icebiking in Hokkaido