Bike Lights

7$ for one :-)

10$ for one

My friend Owen has brought these bike lights in and selling

them quite cheaply. I have been meaning to get a smaller

red light to fix on my helmet. I think the red one on the

first picture would do just fine.

Anyway, as I was surfing at the CrestPursuit thread,

I realised Owen is able to bring in a matching set of jersey

and tights for just 80$. See all of the current selections

here.

1st Group Ride of 2011

Finally! After a very long absence...

First group ride of 2011 and so the gang is still not
complete. Some are still on holiday in the Philippines.
Since there are just four of us on this ride, I took the
opportunity to be the slowpoke of the group today.
I went with the group to Bukit Timah loop and of course
after that we went to our new 'exit'.

This is the problem with me, I am in shape for almost
a year, then I go on holiday and one week later, all
my conditioning is gone! ... or I may be feeling the effects
of old age LOL.

Here's today's video and for those who were not
around today ... don't worry we'll be doing this loop
from now on :-)


New Year's Day 2011

I didn't do any bike stuff and it was raining so all I have are these pics from NTUC :-P

It's the first day of 2011. I think I may have to wax lyrical

about life in general and my hobbies in particular... uhhh that will be

boring ;-)

So today, me and my family went out to Orchard Road (yay!).

It has been quite some time since we last went there... and

guess what? The Christmas lights are already gone!

It was raining quite heavily today... So all the people were

all cooped up in the malls. Good thing that in Singapore,

the mall 'network' is such that you may spend as little

time as possible out of the sun (or in this case, the rain) and
still get from one mall to another.

We were able to make our pilgrimage from ION to Takashimaya.

Speaking of Takashimaya, I went to Books Kinokuniya to browse

for a while and look what I found!

All households need one... really.

I browsed the above book and it, indeed, teaches the reader

what to do in the event that the world gets run over by zombies! 

This means I can write a book about totally bogus stuff

and pass it for the genuine article? Something like :

10 Rules to Survive a Martian Attack.

Apparently, the book is a best seller ... which

means the author is now rich ?!?!

Sigh, some guys have all the luck...

Anyway, I was rummaging thru my backup CDs and found

a clip of me (in blue singlet) climbing a rockwall @Climb Asia near

RaceCourse Rd.

Now, that is one thing that I miss. Rock Climbing is a fantastic

workout. I used to do that as a cross training for my

dragonboat training. The logic was it helps me stretch all

those muscles that are heavily used in dragonboat

paddling. However, the exercise is very bad for the wallet

as one session costs 8SGD! ... maybe I'll do it again

and limit myself to 1 session per week ?

Ok, enough rumbling from me. Happy New Year, people.

Tomorrow, hopefully, I'll be able to ride with my buddies.



New Year's Eve Sneaky Ride

1 week later from original sneaky ride but still same weather!

It's New Year's Eve! ... and of course, we really just had

to test Paolo's new Trance and Sherwin just had to go back

to those rocky downhill stuff that he didn't manage

to clear last Christmas Eve.

Here is today's video and see if Sherwin did clear the rockies

and if the Giant Trance is really more than enough for

Tampines Trail :-)

See you next year!!!

An Even Sneakier X'mas Ride

I must be riding very slow because I've been noticing all these flowers lately.

Christmas Day! ... and I managed to squeeze in a trail ride.

My wife just told me to go @10AM and be back by 1PM

and she doesn't want to hear any complaints later when we

go out. A tall order but I managed to comply with

all the conditions :-)

Just took 2 pictures and didn't bother taking video

since doing so would most probably result in not

being able to comply with the 1PM curfew.

Sneaky Ride on X'mas Eve

We really just had to test Sherwin's new Revelation Ti :-)

We had to cut the sneaky ride short due to lightning

It's Christmas Eve and companies here in Singapore normally

send their employees home early in penance for keeping them

long after office hours for the rest of the year.

However, some of us realise that Holidays are purely for family

gatherings and that it would be very difficult (nay, impossible!) for us

model husbands and fathers to get our trail fix. In light of this

logic Sherwin invited all our friends (via FB) to go to Tampines

Trail once we were dismissed from our respective workplaces.

But the holidays have claimed the riding times of most of us

and only Sherwin, Deng and I were able to go riding.

Here's the video clip of our sneaky ride. We had to cut the

ride short though as there was thunder and lightning. LOL. Clearly,

we were reminded to go home early to our families :-)

Leaving you with pics from the fresh section of NTUC. Had to do some last minute grocery shopping.

Sunday Ride

No one around ...



No one around ....



No one around even in Zheng Hwa !

Today's mushroom collection ... uhh ok, the lower right pic is not a mushroom.

Today's leisure ride is anything but usual. It was dark and

drizzling the whole time I was at BT/T15. It was so cold

it made me wonder if I would catch a cold after the ride.

Also, there were very few people around @ the trails today.

Might have something to do with the drizzle. Since everything

was wet, it was very slippery. I entered T15 via Bukit Panjang

since I know from yesterday's ride that all fallen

trees from 3 - 4 weeks ago have not been cleared yet

and also the 'normal' entrance' to T15 (from Chestnut)

is very muddy.

Anyway, I didn't bother taking any videos since I was

doing the same old same old. See you next weekend ...

that's Christmas !

Saturday Ride

My FS bike, Sis Louie's in the background

Stream

Stream ... we were wondering if we could drink this ...

I went back to the Philippines for a much needed

vacation last week. Hence no trail rides or exercise

of any sort.

So Friday came and as usual the roll call of who's riding this

weekend came. I was thinking of giving this ride a miss,

but hey, the worse that could happen is that I push my bike.. right?

Since I know that I will need all the help I could get,

last night I was thinking which bike to bring... my HT would

be faster but harsher than my FS. My FS would be slower but

I know my spine would thank me later.

For some reason I knew that my friends would ask to go to

a 'different' trail today. Don't ask how I knew. I just felt it.

Anyway, with that in mind, I brought my FS and boy was

I glad that was the bike I chose. 

We did go to a different trail today. Last time we tried going 

there, StairRider Deck and I got lost. Today, the trail gods smiled

at us and we found the right way. Since Sherwin is already 'laspag',

we took his hints (e.g. 'we're gonna climb this on the way back????')

and decided to go all the way and have our lunch @Casuarina :-)  

Here's the video for today's ride and I think this

will set the tone for the next few rides :-)

Sunday Ride

This Sunday was dry and sunny for a change.

However, all the fallen tress from 2 or 3 weeks back

are all still there. There are also newly fallen trees

in some areas. Maybe these fallen trees will just be left

there and it will give our trails a new 'shape'....

Anyway, as usual, Sunday ride was done in a leisurely pace.

So leisurely that I had time to notice all the colorful

new mushrooms and small flowers in our trails.

I dodged lots of photography enthusiasts in the Mandai PCN

trying to hone in their craft in macro photography.

I left home at 8am and was washing my bike at 11:20am.

So when I got home my wife was still smiling :-)

Today's mushroom collection



Lots of small flowers providing color in our trail today ... uhhh I'm not
sure if the middle one is a flower though.





Pulau Ubin Ride



It was cool and drizzling all day



Wooden bridge @one of the smaller trails in Ubin

This is another one of those Saturday morning rides that

got hatched on Friday afternoon.

Surprisingly, a lot of people from the western side of

Singapore was game for this ride. We arrived to have

breakfast @Changi Village at around 8:30am.

By this time, another group of people who were

supposed to go with us still have not arrived. They

finally arrived at around 9+ and told us that if we wait

for them, we might get back home later than usual and

so we could go on ahead to Ubin.

So the six of us went to Ubin. We did one round of Ketam.

Ketam is very very slippery this morning due to the rains

yesterday and the continous drizzle the whole morning.

It was a spin, slip, spin out affair. Anyway, after Ketam,

we went to the various smaller trails in Ubin so that we

could spin to our hearts' content.

Here's a short clip of what went on today.

A few more pics fom this morning