Rural Pinoy BikerRural Pinoy BikerA Pinoy Biker’s Philippine Rural Adventures. My adventures. Around the country. My way of life. (Working for a Bike-Friendly Metro-Manila and being part of the solution instead of the problem.) Articles
Bike for Life: the journey begins
2007-09-17 13:58:00 Update from the Bike for Life blog by Carmela Serina The Bike for Life project took off yesterday, September 16, from the parking lot of the Alabang Town Center. A group of 30 riders started to pedal at 7:55 AM. The group consists of 7 core riders, fathers and relatives of ... More About: Journey , The Journey
Drivers are from Venus?
2007-09-14 15:56:00 A disclaimer: this doesn?t refer to women drivers in particular, but to all drivers who ply the roads towards wherever their destinations are. Venus conjures images of beauty, harmony and perhaps order in a world haphazard in its ways. If I am to continue claiming that drivers are from Venus, then I have to surrender to ... More About: Drivers
Bikers are from Mars, Motor Vehicle Drivers are from Venus
2007-09-12 15:44:00 Alright, I get your reaction, this is not an original title and perhaps may even be quite hard to present as I go on writing this piece. However, my point is to provide a biker?s simple point of view where drivers can get a cue from, and facilitate mutual communication leading to better relationship on ... More About: Drivers , Mars , Motor , Vehicle , Venus
World Car Free Day Update
2007-09-11 10:11:00 From the flyers distributed by the Firefly Brigade: Put some fun between your legs and take a break from high oil prices, traffic jams, and dirty air! On Saturday, September 22, bicycles will take to the streets of Metro Manila to show what roads could be without the noise and bustle of cars! HELP CLEAN OUR ... More About: World , Free , Update
More Steps to Start Appreciating a Bike
2007-09-07 17:37:00 6. Don?t just watch, ride a bike. I used to be an ?armchair biker?. Trails and century rides didn?t ring any bells when I heard those terms for the first time. A saddle was what cowboys used to mount horses. Yes, I knew how to ride a bike but the only memory of bikes I ... More About: Bike , Start , Steps , Reci
10 Steps To Start Appreciating A Bike
2007-09-06 16:17:00 All the world loves a lover. But who loves a biker? Certainly not the driver who feels cyclists are as alien to streets as a banana peel on the pavement. Any cyclist can tell you a favorite tale about an encounter with a not so friendly driver or even a pedestrian and you would realize that ... More About: Bike , Start , Steps , Reci
World Car-Free Day Celebration
2007-09-04 10:47:00 The Firefly Brigade is spearheading the Philippine celebration of the World Car Free Day to be held on Saturday, September 2, 2007. The theme is: Bike to work, bike to play, Bike to school, bike today! Join the World Car-Free Day! More details to be announced later. If you would like to participate, please leave a comment with your contact number ... More About: Celebration
2007 Eastwood City - Firefly Brigade Bike Clinics
2007-08-23 09:06:00 JOIN the Eastwood City BIKE CLINICS by the Firefly Brigade, Date: Sunday, August 26, 2007 Saturday, September 1, 2007 Time: 9AM-12NN (registration starts at 8:30 AM) You just learned how to bike or kept it a secret for years, you may want to bike to work, to school or go around your neighborhood, the city, the ... More About: Bike , Clinics
Body Resistance Down
2007-08-21 00:42:00 Maybe it’s just me, but I think three days of biking inactivity lowered my body resistance. I haven’t touched my bike since Friday and so yesterday, Monday, I have been down with severe cough, headaches, muscle pains, colds and for a while, low grade fever and chills. I still tried to go to ... More About: Body , Resistance
Following somebody?s Footsteps?
2007-08-15 13:36:00 Got tagged again today. I guess I wasn?t pedaling fast enough and Heather caught me! I?m glad she did though, as her blog opens up a lot of dream roads for me to explore. We don?t have much of awesome and exotic trails here in my country so looking at her travel blog?s pictures sure ... More About: Foot , Steps , Some
A Missed Adventure
2007-08-13 12:30:00 The event: THE DOT 24 HOURS MOUNTAIN BIKE ENDURANCE CHALLENGE, held last Saturday to Sunday, August 11-12, 2007 The Participants: every mountain bike enthusiast, ready and fit to take the challenge. The Outcome: I have yet to receive news because I wasn’t there! The Reason: My heart - the medicine the doctor gave me is limiting my heartbeat ... More About: Asia , Adventure , Advent
Biking and Some Life Lessons
2007-08-10 08:59:00 I have been biking to work for over a year now. Almost daily during the week, I hop on my bike, looking forward to the trip to work. I may sound too obsessed with biking but I would say that it is the best part of my working day. Then going home on ... More About: Life , Life Lessons , Lessons , Biking , Some
Stolen Bike?More Stories?(3)
2007-08-09 11:31:00 Last Sunday was an eventful day for this biker. We finally made our presentation of the bike advocacy kit our batch has been trying to produce for about a month now. Then, I had my first taste of an adventure race (mini though it was). Then, after a tuna pasta lunch (with a vegetarian ... More About: Stories , Bike , Stolen
Stolen Bike ? (2)
2007-08-07 14:49:00 Having solved the puzzle, we received the next task: go to the NCTS building and have our group?s picture taken in front of the bike rack there. None of us knew the meaning of NCTS and of course, they wouldn?t tell it to us. I had a vague idea of where it was, ... More About: Bike , Stolen
A Stolen Bike and Some More News?
2007-08-06 13:58:00 This is about too many things happening on one day. The weekend was quite busy, as I was preparing for the final presentation of our batch 2007 project for the Firefly Brigade. The project is a bike advocacy ?kit? that will be presented to different companies where we will do our campaign about using the ... More About: News , Bike , Stolen , Some
When does biking imitate life?
2007-07-31 09:23:00 1. When faced with an obstacle, you have to stop, dismount, scratch your head, take stock of the situation and choose your best option. 2. When you are forced to change lanes, you have to look back, forward, side to side, weigh options, avoid being hit by forces heavier and faster than you. 3. When going downhill ... More About: Life , Biking
Cancer Warriors: Bike for Life
2007-07-30 13:34:00 Posting for a friend: Hello friends! Cancer Warriors will be holding its second Bike for Life this September 16-30, 2007 and we are in need of volunteer local coordinators for Kalibo, Roxas, Iloilo, Bacolod, San Carlos, Dumaguete, Bohol, CDO, Malaybalay. If you are in these areas or you know of anyone who is, please tell me if you ... More About: Asia
Five things about the bike that I wish I?d known when I was younger
2007-07-27 04:00:00 I rediscovered the joys of biking very late in life. I was 40 years old and already suffering from coronary artery disease when one of my brothers bought himself a bike, rekindled the biking bug in me, and pushed me to buy my own. Borrowing his bike once or twice a week, I was able ... More About: Bike , Things , Thing , Five
Biking in the Rain
2007-07-26 11:21:00 I have been waiting for the rain to catch me on my way to the office ever since the rainy season began. I was hoping I would have the luck this afternoon, but no, all that fell was a little drizzle, not even enough to wet my nose. When I left the house, the ... More About: Rain , Biking
10 Habits of a Happy Biker (2)
2007-07-23 10:31:00 A happy biker will more likely arrive at his destination sooner, safer and saner. So here are 5 more habits that make a biker happy. 6. Share the road. This goes both ways, for the vehicle driver and the biker. No one has the monopoly of this very limited resource and the sooner we all realize ... More About: Habits , Happy , Biker , Bits , Abit
10 Habits of a Happy Biker
2007-07-19 12:02:00 The point of traveling is going from point A to point B: the shorter, straighter and faster the route, the better for the traveler. And this is especially true for a biker. However, there are circumstances where a more circuitous, longer and slower route is better. If a biker longs to enjoy the ... More About: Habits , Happy , Biker , Bits , Abit
An uneventful ride home
2007-07-17 15:02:00 I must have done something right yesterday. My bike commute going home was as uneventful as it could be. I arrived home a little later than usual, the reason being the same as why it took me 45 minutes of pedaling to arrive at work. The ride home is actually a little harder ... More About: Home , Ride , Vent , Eventful
Resuming Bike to Work
2007-07-16 15:32:00 I haven’t had the chance to go back to the Marikina bike path. I wanted to go back and take some pictures to post here. Perhaps some other time. I resumed my bike to work routine today. I estimate the time it took me to arrive at work from my home as around 45 minutes ... More About: Work , Bike , Ming
Ride to Riverbanks bike path
2007-07-13 10:43:00 I slept a fitful sleep last night. No, actually I did not sleep at all until 6:30 in the morning, after my wife had left to bring our son to UPIS (University of the Philippines Integrated School). I read somewhere that if you?re in bed for 20minutes trying to get a shuteye but still awake, ... More About: Bike , Ride , Path
A Personal Best
2007-07-11 11:17:00 After a week of biking hiatus, I finally found the strength (here I thought of the biblical quotation: the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak-Matthew 26:41) to take the bike for a spin around the neighborhood. With the exhaustion I felt after my last biking sojourn still fresh in my mind, ... More About: Personal , Al B , Persona , Sona
Biking and Arrhythmia
2007-07-10 09:55:00 For a long time even before my last post, I was wrestling with myself if I should write what I am about to, in this post. I have written somewhere else about my physical condition and how it has affected my lifestyle, why I took up biking as a sport and more importantly, as a ... More About: Biking
E-Jeepneys: Greenpeace Philippines? way to a bright future of clean, renewa
2007-07-04 14:45:00 Greenpeace Philippines ’ Pilipinas Go Renewable project got a boost today when they launched the E-Jeepney (electric jeepney). Being the first of its kind public transport in Southeast Asia, Greenpeace hopes it will lead the way to “steer clear of the use of fossil fuels to help mitigate climate change, even as it addresses urban problems ... More About: Future , Clean , Bright , Greenpeace
How to lift up a biker?s spirit
2007-07-02 16:12:00 Last week was a stressful one for me. I had trouble falling asleep after biking from work. I usually arrive at around 12:30 AM, would rest a while and then go to bed beside my wife. But starting Monday last week until the following day, I couldn’t sleep past 4:00 AM. My wife ... More About: Biker , Spirit , Lift
THE DOT 24 HOURS MOUNTAIN BIKE ENDURANCE CHALLENGE
2007-06-28 16:30:00 I got this from the PMTB forum: THE DOT 24 HOURS MOUNTAIN BIKE ENDURANCE CHALLENGE Elite and amateur mountain bike and outdoor sports athletes from across the Philippines will converge on August 11-12, 2007 to compete in the most awaited 24 hours mountain biking race in the country today: The DOT 24 HOURS MOUNTAIN BIKE ENDURANCE CHALLENGE ... More About: Asia , Bike , Challenge , Mountain , Allen
The Cyclists? Prayer
More articles from this author:2007-06-25 14:49:00 While going through the links in one of my blogroll entries, I came upon this prayer for cyclist. I don’t know who Fr. Picx is, but I do like this prayer and I pray too, that he still continues to bike today and forever…Thanks to padyakbud.com for this. THE CYCLISTS’ PRAYER By Fr. Picx the Cycling Priest As ... More About: Prayer , Cyclists , Raye , Pray 1, 2, 3 |
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