Wednesday, April 25, 2012

#242 - Weekend Ride



Saturday morning brought nothing but rain ... and in the
afternoon, more rain. By the time the rain stopped there
was nothing left of Saturday to go trail riding with. Well,
technically, there was some time left but the trails would
be very muddy. 

With that in mind, I didn't really have much choice but
but to go and do ye olde city ride loop. But the rains have
put a damper on my enthusiasm that I didn't even bother
completing the loop. I went to the Sg Flyer/F1 pitlane
and did a u-turn home.  


and the next day, Sunday, I was still feeling lethargic.
I read in one of the threads in MTBR that I will need
to put in 'easy' days as well as 'easy' weeks in my routine
and so I made the quick decision that this week shall be
one of such 'easy' weeks.

I went up RRR, went to T15 and back again and that was
it. On the way back to Zheng Hwa Park from T15, I saw
the posse that I should have been on had I been up to the
task of some vigorous trail riding. Efren, Sugar Rush Rey
and Neil were on their way to do reverse Flowy Trail when
they saw me. Efren and Rey saw my Jamis HT and triumphantly
proclaimed that they have caught me testing my 'new' HT that
I  shall be using for the future Malaysia races that we plan
to go to. I corrected them and told them that that HT
was actually my first ever bike which I just restored.
Now they said that I had waayyy too much bike.
Hehehehe just wait till they see my carbon hardtail ;-)








Monday, April 16, 2012

#241 - Weekend

Giant ATX 880
I saw this chap using this nice, blue Giant ATX 880
in T15. The bike seems to be almost stock. The only
'upgrade' that I saw was this red bash guard on the
bike's crankset.

The bike was sooo different from the high tech bikes
that I normally see in our trails and so I just had to take
some pics and share them in here.
Mushroom for my collection
... I consider myself an XC rider and so I normally
just 'listen' to Absalon :-) (exagerrated actually).
But when a guy like Fabien Barel talks, you better
stop what you are doing and listen attentively.
This guy definitely knows a thing or two about
bike handling ;-)



Friday, April 13, 2012

#240 - Long Weekend










Above are pics taken during the long weekend rides
last weekend ... yup, I rode all three days :-)

... and by the way, see picture below.
Looks interesting, right?


Picture taken from wacycles.blogspot.com