Saturday Ride

Discussion on how to keep Paolo's cleats in place.

Monjie's Hobbies and AirTime Mark keep their cool even when lost.
Brother Louie doesn't know we're lost. Archie knows.

Lunch ! Finally!

NoLights Louie is the official photographer for this event.
Archie behind after getting lost in wildboar country.

Guess whose lunch this is. Clue : all the boys ate normally LOL.

GE DV1 purchased last Friday at IT Show in Suntec

Today (Saturday, Mar 12, 2011) everyone is in their good behaviour.

Friday prior to this long ride, a lot of people were asking me about

any exit points. However, nobody! nobody! even suggested to using

said exit points. So our quote for the day : 'Sige, subukan nyo!!!'

Translation : 'Go ahead and try!!!'

Quote was from Uncle Deck who dropped his usual monicker

of StairRider as there were no stairs to be biked up on this route.

As usual, Monjie's Hobbies has been branded a sadist by the

participants. By the way, we're welcoming back Archie with

his brand new all singing, all dancing Santa Cruz Blur LT which

seem to weigh a lot less than my XC bike. Also back with

us is BlinkingLights Randy who showed us his mastery of

pedalling air technique.

The day started with a bit of hazing as Ronald convinced BL Randy

that we are such masochists that we do not eat breakfast before our rides.

Believing this, BL Randy ran to BK and got himself his breakfast

which he consumed along Bukit Timah Rd on the way to 6th

Avenue where we took the breakfast that Ronald promised him

will not materialise LOL.

After breakfast, we went to the Visitor Centre via Rifle Range Rd.

BL Randy flatted even before we get to VC! ... and the two

Louies got lost(??) I'm still wondering how they did it as NoLights

Louie goes to BT every weekend!

Once all those were sorted, Sherwin bade us goodbye before

we even went up the rock garden entrance! He got paged for work.

So we went in without Sherwin.

... But even before I can get to the quarry, my phone rang and

it was Sherwin saying the problem got solved and he's asking

for directions to get to Zheng Hwa from RRR.

All these, and the ride wasn't even 30minutes old! Anyway, everything

was sorted at ZH Park. Everybody then went to the Mandai end

of T15. Monjie's Hobbies led the way to HellClimb and when

the group saw the climb... they all agreed it will be hell....

I knew this would be their reaction and so to prevent them

from waiting at the foot of the climb, I told them that we will

not do a u-turn... It was this decision that got us lost.

Thank God for GPS on handphones! We decided to create

our own trail. This was exhausting work and after that everybody

wanted to go for lunch. But I think the group is no longer 'imagining'

the route due to hunger. Sc trail is higher than Bukit Panjang (lunch stop).

If we go for lunch, we will go down, eat and then come back up

to Sc trail? Not nice! So I took out my whip and told them

that any mutiny will be dealt with harshly.

After lunch, we went to the highest point in our route and then 

went to the first stream. It was decided here that this talk of

200$ fines is too scary and so we went to do the Reverse Rooty

Trail.

We went in BT @around 9:30AM and got into Esso to clean our

bikes by 5PM+. People suffered from recurring old injuries and new ones.

Last but not least, only SR Deck and I live @Novena. All the rest

have to cycle to Bedok, Tampines or Pasir Ris!

Wanna do it again ?

Ooopsss, by the way, NL Louie had his GoPro on.

But I am not sure how those videos would turn out.

Here's a short video I took with my DV1 just for testing.

I'll be using this DV1 from now on together with my GoPro

as it is supposed to be waterproof and shockproof :-)

Update : Link to NoLights Louie's video of the group ride.