.... the jackal rides and run....

Did a wonderful ride with Mr.Ti-bike today. The route as mapped below... East to West Loop (80km) Share your bike routes @ Bikely.com Started off from my place at Marine Parade and met up with Mr.Ti at Lor Chuan...he is familar with the Kranji-Neo Tiew area so was essential for this ride. I started out at 5am....met him at 5.30am (yup I got a bit lost along the way). The morning was cool and nice....highlights of the ride include the uphill-downhill ride around Upper Thomson Road hills. And man, cycling around Kranji/Neo Tiew at the break of sunlight was AMAZING....I didn't think such places still existed in Singapore. It looked as if I was cycling in some Malaysian farmland. Lim Chu Kang road was closed for some Army exercise so we went along Old LCK road instead and what a nice road it is compared to the huge run-way new road. From then on, it was Jalan Bahar (NTU) and straight south to Jurong Island (Jalan Buroh). Mr.Ti suggested prata at Fong Seng area near NUS...good idea sinc...

Some latest pics in B & W....

Well what can I say? Bad week indeed.....my 7-month old son was hospitalized, diagnosed with Kawasaki's disease. Yes I know, wtf is that??? Well its not common but not rare as well. Its cause is still not known and there is no direct way to diagnose it....just by the prolonged fever and a couple of other symptoms. Read it up if you have kids!!! He's ok now but we are worried sick right now on that the long term effect (aftermath) of this disease will leave on his health; his heart in particular. We are going for a first scan to tomorrow (2D Echogram). Pray for us and our little boy.... Back to cycling...did a quick ride on Sat...managed to complete the usual course (about 29km) in about 64 minutes. Was really struggling to get up to speed along Changi Coast Road and tried really hard to keep at 30km/h....the aim was to do it in less that an hour! Well I failed. Only managed an average of 27.5km/h for the entire ride. Prior to the ride I had a niggling stiff neck and weird nerve...

Ah, after a 2 week hiatus - partly due to the slow broken spoke replacement and the shitty weather we've been getting here, I got to do my usual routes this weekend. First on the spokes....bugger was slow in replacing just one spoke. It was scheduled to be ready in a few days but he ordered the wrong spokes....and when he did order the right spokes, it took him almost a week. Kind doubt his words now.....if its a simple job, he should definitely do it fast. Anyway, I told him to mount tires as well; GP4000 to be exact. My mistake cos he mounted the 20c version (he did not have any 23c) and I did not indicate to him the size I wanted but on hindsight, he should ask right?? well. I'm gonna try to avoid going back to him from now on...that's for sure. I bought a pair of GP4000s tyres...an upgraded version of the GP4000. Cost me about SGD78 per tyre (when most LBS listed it as SGD94)...well....to be honest, tires feel very good and is grippy. Its a well reviewed tire and for th...

Damn...the LBS actually ordered a wrong length spoke and more delay to the wheel yet again. Was hoping to ride at least on a Sunday but was told that he ordered the wrong length and could not true the wheel properly. Though he wanted to rush it for Monday, I told him to take his time cos anyway I'll be out of the country till Friday...... Yes may pall in the Alu Pina reported back that he loved the ride of the Cannondale CAAD4 road bike...and claims that its better than the Pina that he has. Well, I've not ridden his Pina before so I won't know. All I know is that my last bike, which was a GT 7000 series butted alu frame was damn stiff and uncomfortable for me...but it was fast and really light. I daresay the frame is even lighter that the titanium frame a friend of mine has. This affirms the claims that the claim 'steel is real' is irrelelvant and that whether it be Alu or Titanium, bikes can be built to have great ride qualities akin of steel but the built and geo...