Ro@d Ride 23rd Nov

As usual, a mass sms send out for a humble weekday ride, but was limited to a few who could only make it. But cycling isn't a group sport, but the company does make up for any straining exercise that especially needs motivation. The meeting was at 8pm, and with some delay, everyone got there almost on time, not bad for a start.

Our bicycles seem to attract alot of attention to the elderly folks, as often one would stop and admire our rides, with a casual pick up line "How much ah, got worth $1000?" Not often, they will tell us of their great days when they used to cycle a bicycle, i guess back in their days, it was to some the only mode of transport. I'm sure they have as many pleasant memories riding their then bicycle as we do, or maybe even more.

Deciding a route we chose one that would lead us to Bishan Park and maybe find that said cycling track leading to East Coast Park. Knowingly, we had to go through Lornie Road, a gradual uphill with highly engrossed traffic weaving to get on to the PIE, but we manage to skim by. A group of roadies over took us, those roadies have bigger wheels and lesser contact to the road, which makes them real fast. True to form, we prefered the pavement, it only gave us elbow space but freedom from abiding traffic. On a stretch of descend, the whole pavement was blocked up, apparently a tree fell, and was covering the entire pavement, we had to slam on the brakes at pretty high speed just to avoid visiting that lumberjack.

On to another descend on the pavement, the overgrown bushes was creeping more and more into our path. Being the first one upfront, i could see the pavement shrink right before me, not long after that i was lying on a soft bed of bush, pretty comfortable except for that slight over moisture. YES, i have fallen off my bicycle, and it all happened in slow motion but thankfully i slowed down. The guys were soon peering to see what happened, but i was fine, not a scratch, maybe a tarnished ego but a quick check on my beloved bicycle and we were on our way again.