| Date |
Topic |
Odometer
(km) |
Comments |
| 14th May |
Pass motorbike license test |
0 |
t's easy easy |
| 16th May |
Get a new Yamaha TTR |
20 |
Get stuck at the shores of a river. Tough start... |
| 17th May |
A mountain dirt road for the first time |
100 |
Cool! |
| Late May to early June |
Run around Kyoto |
1,300 |
Visit lots of tourism resource of Kyoto |
| 10th June to 6th July |
1-month tour for North and East Hokkaido |
4,300 |
Break shoulder on 25th June on the lakeside road. Afterwards keep traveling
by hitchhiking. |
| Mid July |
Recuperation at home |
4,600 |
In this term I determine to try the overseas motorbike tour. |
| 4th Aug. to 1st Sep. |
1-month tour for Tohoku and the 2nd Hokkaido (south and west) |
9,600 |
Fell down many times and got bruises here and there on my body |
| 14th Sep. |
The first group tour for Maizuru |
10,500 |
Day trip. I found group riding quite difficult |
| 30th Sep. to 1st Oct. |
2-day tour for Hyogo prefecture |
11,000 |
Got no injury but attacked by tanuki (Japanese wild raccoon) |
| 9th Oct. to 16th Oct. |
1-Week tour for Shinshu and Tokyo |
13,000 |
Got out of course and fell over the cliff. But fortunately end up
with slight damage. |
| 25th Oct. to 26th Oct. |
2-day tour for Wakayama |
13,700 |
Broke the clutch lever |
| 29th. Oct. to 1th Nov. |
3-day tour for Shinshu |
15,000 |
No fall, no cry! |
| Nov. |
Tackle bike maintenance |
15,500 |
It's really hard to take off / fit tires.... |
| Dec. |
Motorbike alteration for this time |
16,000 |
Not so big modification.... |
| Jan-Feb, 2000 |
Last check |
17,000 |
Can't ride because of cold |
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