Back to Insanity, Part 2

Read Back to Insanity, Part 1 here.
Getting our strength and endurance back slowly by riding every weekend, occasionally quickies on weekdays, with the help of fellow Backout Boys, Team Prima teammates, and our friends the QueensRow Boys, Frank and I sometimes feel a single, full loop of the Malipay trail network just doesn’t fulfill the [...]

Back to Insanity!

Evening of Feb. 17, 2012, my phone beeped. “Where are we riding tomorrow?”
That’s the text message I received from Frank, my long-time riding buddy.
We both got back on the saddle at the start of this year.
I was forced to stop due to the trauma of my bike-jacking at gunpoint experience (I haven’t written about this, [...]

Road Trip to Cardiac

Road trip. Most of the single track trails were still wet so we decided on staying on pavement (mostly) for this ride.
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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, [...]

Epic Fail!

Wallet, check.
Cellphone, check.
Bike lock, check.
IPod, earphones, check.
Energy bars, check.
Sun block, check.
Camera, check.
Gorillapod imitation tripod, check.
I’m ready to go. This is the first time again I’m going to use my hydropack, mainly because I’ve been using my Deuter Nordic Lite water bottle hip pack, plus the bite valve of my hydropack’s bladder has been leaking (after [...]

Friday Group(s) – trail orgy

It was still dark out. The sun is still waking from its sleep, slowly rising above the mountains in the distance, helping show off the blue hue of the clear skies. A red blinking light continues its monotonous pattern while attached to the Topeak saddle bag.

In the early morning silence a metal gate clinks and [...]

Too Quickie Sunday

Last Saturday Frank wasn’t able to join the group’s ride. This seemed odd as the whole week we have been talking via Yahoo! Messenger and he’s been excited to ride.
Nearing the end of the ride, around 10 A.M. I get a text message from him. Seems like he just woke up. He was blaming not [...]

One-oh-four-point-three-nine

Lolo Zaldy waiting for breakfast: binalot na lechon kawali
5:00 A.M., time to get up, I can’t miss this ride. One reason is I haven’t been to the Sta. Rosa trails in a while. Another reason is I haven’t really ridden the Sta. Rosa trails, I have only been to a few. But the main reason [...]