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[VIDEO] Theo’s 2nd Cross-Country MTB Adventure Challenge experience

Posted by Francis Arellano on Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:51 am

2010 04 24 First-hand Tagaytay Highlands race experience by Theo from Francis Arellano on Vimeo.
You can view the pics I took of the event with my GoPro Helmet Hero cam here.

2nd Cross-Country MTB Adventure Challenge experience

Posted by Francis Arellano on Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:12 pm

I’m still tired. Having a very humid, sleepless night before the race, and waking up real early as I had to drive out of my way to Shell along Daang Hari to meet up with my other Team Prima team mates Borj and Ryan, then go back to meet with Prof.
I didn’t want to be [...]

Heavyweight Ride

Posted by Francis Arellano on Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:43 pm

(L-R) Chris, Doc Riz, Borj, me
Our plan to pedal all the way to U.P. Los Baños, to watch the Big Daddy Downhill Cup, got canceled as soon as Doc Riz found out where the race was going to be held. Main reason is we will surely get caught in the dark on our way [...]

Newbie Killer!

Posted by Francis Arellano on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:20 pm

“We’ll be riding in La Mesa this Sunday. Find me a bike.”
My wife suddenly blurted that out last week. I had to make sure I was awake. I had to make sure she was awake.
I looked at her funny. Then she explained. One of her college friends agreed to try mountain biking. It will be [...]

“Compensating”?

Posted by Francis Arellano on Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:31 am

The day my wife finally rode with me on a loaned mountain bike (thanks Bong!) was the first time I’ve ridden the Nuvali mountain bike tracks, though I’m pretty sure we weren’t able to ride the complete tracks as we were adjusting to match my wife’s riding level.
But as we were done with the first [...]

Nuvali, Nuvali batchu! Double date ride!

Posted by Francis Arellano on Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 am

This was on Valentine’s Day 2010, the first time my wife, Jam, tried mountain biking (on a loaned mountain bike; thanks Bong!). With us on this ride were Ian (fellow Backout Boys member) and his wife.
Ian knew we had to adjust to make this day’s ride enjoyable for my wife. Lei, his wife, was just [...]

From 4×4 to 2×1 – easy group ride!

Posted by Francis Arellano on Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:07 pm

At the Vitara Club of the Philippines Christmas party a few friends who also ride mountain bikes requested we organize a 4×4 Philippines mountain bike ride for us to get together again on our 2-wheeled rigs.
We decided to set the date 3 weeks away from when we first talked about it. Dec. 27, 2009, was [...]

Cardiac Attack, an uphill mountain bike race

Posted by Francis Arellano on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:46 pm

Both cars are in the repair shop. I thought one would be ready in time for the race. Guess not.
As soon as I found out about the car not being available for the race I sent a text message to Togs. I need a ride to the race.
His Mitsubishi Adventure can comfortably fit 3 persons, [...]