Hakone Moto: Extreme Hill climbing

#Abunai = dangerous

The night in the camp was quite rough, i could hardly sleep. Early in the morning we packed our stuffs and then i started to realise something is terribly wrong with my rear wheel. It wobbles like crazy and its not possible to continue cycling that way...we decided to look for a repair shop, after asking around and trying to decypher what the locals tried to tell us, we manage to find a good one. The owner of the bike shop was very friendly and talkative, he even showed us pictures of his last bicycle tours. Bad news..the wheel was so bended, its not possible to true it back. There was even a big crack on the wheel. The wheel must go! I had to buy a new wheel and within an hour or so the bike is ready! The owner even changed my bike's brake after hearing that we are heading to Hakone.. "Abunai!" he said, since the road to Hakone is quite steep. The bike felt like new, we cycled further to Hakone. The first 40 km was all well but then comes the anticipated hill-climbing session: around 15 km long and 850 m high! The road was rough and after 6:00 it got pitch-black and theres no street lamp! After the climbing horror we managed to find ourself a nice japanese motel on the hillRead more