Newbie Killer: The Movie

Excerpt: “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.
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Read The Newbie-Killer, the “novel” here
Finally, I was able to upload the short video of this [...]

Newbie Killer!

“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 [...]

From 4×4 to 2×1 – easy group ride!

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 [...]

WE MATTER, according to Tourism Philippines!

I sent an email to Tourism Philippines editor-in-chief PKTan asking if he knows any mountain biking trails in the tourist destinations they feature. I knew it was a long shot mainly because I guessed he wasn’t a mountain biker, and I was correct. But still I tried.
In my email signature are 2 website URL’s: 1) [...]

Devirginize!

2 weeks prior this ride has been planned. March 29, 2009, Kenneth, a.k.a. KOS, set a date for a 4×4 Philippines mountain bike ride in Mt. Maarat, San Mateo, Rizal.

First post by KOS was:
New thread started (as discussed with Craw) to list/post MTB schedules trails. Maganda raw sana gawin nating regular etong MTB trails… (trans: [...]

Effects of addiction

The decision to write this entry was borne out of a For Sale thread in the Philippine Mountain Biking Forum (PhilMoFo).
My reply to this 6-month challenge I’ve been reading about was first sent through PM to Mr. Bi_Atch, hoping I could convince him to keep his wrongly-sized PhilMoFo jersey and inspire him (and maybe others) [...]

Sunday morning rain is falling…

Article title taken from Maroon 5′s song Sunday Morning.
After the freak out #2 moment I was sitting at my PC, checking mail, checking the 4×4 Philippines and PhilMoFo forums, and thinking of going back to sleep.
My cellphone then beeps at a little past 5 A.M. It was Frank. He’s asking if I would be riding.

Well, [...]

Freak out #2

Via YM, KOS invited me to ride with them today at Timberland, where the Head for the Hills charity race and the Splash MTB XC Challenge were held (where the Head for the Hills Downhill race will also take place).

After finding out who the attendees were I was so tempted to join them: my 4×4 [...]