Rural Pinoy BikerRural Pinoy BikerMy 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
Firefly Booth, CMR and a Bowlful of Noodles
2007-10-22 12:32:00 The Firefly Brigade booth at last Saturday’s MOA exhibit won the Best Booth Activity, Best Environmental Cause, and the 3rd prize beneficiary. Students who visited the exhibits chose the Fireflies over nine other participating environmental advocacy group. The gates opened at 10 am and a presentation by a cheer leading team from UP inaugurated ... More About: Noodles , Bowl
A Fabulous Bike to Work Guy
2007-10-19 15:29:00 Yes, that is what Becca believes I am. What is fabulous? I searched for its definition, and I had to sift trough several ones in order to say, well, this one is for me. Ardictionary has the following definitions: Fabulous 1 Definition: Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, ... More About: Work , Bike
Surviving the Ride Home
2007-10-17 12:45:00 This the second part of my Blog Action Day post. The ride going home is totally in contrast with the one coming to work. I get off at 12 midnight and so the streets are all but virtually abandoned. Except perhaps on Fridays, the streets are quite empty. Sometimes you can see a solitary car or ... More About: Home , Ride , Vivi
October Critical Mass Ride
2007-10-16 13:59:00 The Firefly Brigade, which organized the World Car Free Day last September 22, is again inviting all cyclists in Metro Manila to participate in the monthly Critic al Mass Ride . For the month of October , the said event will start at UP Diliman, AS Parking lot and end at the Mall of Asia, where a short program ...
Surviving Daily Bike To Work: My Take on the Blog Action Day
2007-10-15 11:45:00 In a society where owning a car is a status symbol, using a bicycle seems totally uncool. And in a tropical country like ours, it is literally and doubly uncool, what with temperatures reaching more than a hundred degrees at midday, and this is during the rainy season. I’ve heard perhaps a hundred reasons for ... More About: Daily , Action , Work , Bike , Blog
Tale of a Selfish Biker
2007-10-14 18:44:00 I am selfish. I am a selfish biker. I like to breathe clean air. I say “yes to clean air”. I like to bike unmolested by rude drivers of motorized transport. I like to keep myself healthy. I, me and myself always! But on board my bike. More About: Biker , Tale
Norbit Learns to Bike and Saves His Life
2007-10-11 14:20:00 Having nothing to do in particular last weekend, I rented the movie Norbit . I did not have any idea what it was all about but since I like the star, I got it anyway. Norbit is Eddie Murphy. One particular trait that he exhibited all throughout the movie was his clumsiness. As a baby, he ... More About: Life , Bike , Aves
Welcome to my Site!
2007-10-10 15:25:00 My bike and myself welcome you to my new site. I hope that you would come here as often as you did in my old one. It carries the same name though, but I own the domain now. I also adopted a new theme which I hope would go with the energy I feel ... More About: Site
Biking Moves These Filipinas
2007-10-09 15:12:00 Which is more fun: cook the family?s favorite dish, or go to the mall and window shop? Which is more stressful: review for a coming long test, or wait for the pizza that you ordered an hour ago? Fun and stress could never be uttered in the same sentence; they seem to contradict each other. But ... More About: Philippines , Filipinas , Biking , Moves
From a Smiling Blogger Mom to a Thoughtful Biker
2007-10-06 17:02:00 Moderation is a must for everything. However, there are certain things that one could never have enough of: like receiving gifts in Christmas, having a lot of true friends, biking in the rain, having the road all to yourself, a carbon mtb frame like this, a parking space in a crowded parking lot, ... More About: Blogger , Biker
Bike Repair and Other Life Experiences
2007-10-05 11:49:00 Lessons learned the hard way usually last a lifetime. Those experiences that came our way and left indelible marks on our memory would always come to the fore when we experience something new that reminds us of the past. However, we still forget to heed the voice of experience. When it comes to physical discomfort ... More About: Life , Bike , Experiences , Repair , Erie
Caught in the Rain Biking
2007-10-02 13:26:00 The Philippines lies in the path of typhoons in the Pacific. So it is not surprising that the country would have hundreds of weather disturbances annually, each causing several millions of pesos (dollars) in damages, both to lives and properties. But as with anything else, they bring both good and bad effects to our citizens. ... More About: Rain , Caught , Biking
September 30 is World Heart Day
2007-09-29 15:45:00 I was watching a Spanish TV program in the internet when. to my surprise, they showed an ad announcing that September 30 , 2007 is World Heart Day I have posted here on several occasions that I have a heart condition, which is primarily the reason why I took up biking as a sport/recreational activity. ...
Cancer Warriors Foundation B4L Ends Tomorrow
2007-09-29 12:50:00 I received a text message from Eric last Thursday, informing me that they were already in Cagayan de Oro and preparing for the trip to Malaybalay, Bukidnon. They were to start pedaling early the next day. It would be a two day ride across the mountain, before they could reach Davao City, their ... More About: Asia , Foundation , Cancer , Warriors , Tomorrow
MapMyRide: My Daily Bike to Work Route
2007-09-27 08:00:00 I found this website while using Stumbleupon. It is called MapMyRide. It lets you map any route you take, whether it is for cycling, hiking or running. You can create as many maps as you can and search for other rides/routes for you to take. You can view in different modes: ... More About: Daily , Work , Bike , Route
Robin Williams in RV, Fatherhood and an Almost Non-Bike Issue
2007-09-26 12:20:00 We rented the movie RV last Sunday night and after watching it, I must say I learned some almost non-biking lessons from that movie. I say almost non-biking lessons because indeed, there was a scene were Williams rode a chopper bicycle to get to an important meeting he had to attend, under pain of ... More About: Robin Williams , Bike , Fatherhood , Robin
Car Free Day Highlights and some Bike for Life News
More articles from this author:2007-09-24 16:44:00 The ride took off right after Mike’s short introduction. It was around 4:35 that the peloton started to pedal out of the Araneta Center, starting from Bike City out to P. Tuazon. The route took us through EDSA, Ortigas, E. Rodriguez Jr. and Tomas Morato. Along Ortigas, just after we passed Greenhills, Audie from the ... More About: News , Life , Free , Highlights 1, 2, 3 |
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