My first crash

A beautiful day for another long distance cycling today. Destination Sentosa Island, at first i think to myself, this is going to be a long ride, boy was i wrong instead it's rather more bumpier then going to East Coast park. The traffic is much more challenging then i though. My first fear was cycling through Orchard Road, man, today's drivers, what happen to them man, in my own lane, the space is so big and not a single car and yet there will still a naughty driver horned at you and even look at you, what did i do? Well, i just stick to the road rules and paddle on to my destination.







A few climbing up of slope to conquer, Chinatown is next. Another messy traffic to look out for. When i was about ten minutes away from the island, where i still need to paddle hard for this rather long slope heading towards Church of St Teresa along Kampong Bahru Road, i stop by a bus stop rest my pity stressful legs for awhile.





When I'm done, as always i will look out for in coming vehicles, clear to go, i paddle hard and fast and didn't realized that I'm moving too fast towards the side walk, i keep thinking that i can squeeze or avoid it but i was wrong, my miss judgment leaded me into becoming Superman. My paddle hit real hard on the side pavement, i flew like about one meter away from my bike, saw a pretty fast moving car coming towards me, something just tells me to roll right now! I'd managed to dodged the fast moving vehicle just in time. Pick myself up. See if there is anything broken on myself and of cause the bike too, fortunately not a scratch accept for my right knee with a minor scratch. And what do you know, my Hasa cheap bike, i don't see any damage at all accept a few torn off paint job on the bike, also when i landed onto the ground i felt my head bumped, and later also didn't even see a scratch on my MET helmet, wicked!





For awhile, i was worried about my bike too. So i carry on to my Destination, nothing still can stop me, for now. Finally i was at the entrance to the island and also almost miss the turn. Anyhow, paid for the entrance fee $2/- to the island, my first though was to find a place to pit stop for some cool refreshing drinks. When i was finally there, i too didn't take any photos as almost everywhere are upgrading or doing construction, so instead i put up with some of my previous photos when i was there just about four months back.





After enjoyed enough of my Snapple drink, it's time to head home for the sky is rather dark, looks like it's going to rain. Well another about 10km of ride home and all the messy traffics coming ahead of me soon, well wish me luck.

Operation 33km

Today, armed with a digital camera i'd managed to capture some of what i don't see everyday kind of images. My plan today is to head down to East Cost park and perhaps try to conquer a further distant then the last time i was there at around the distant of 10km. Also today i wanted to capture this yellow tower at the end of East Coast park, till now i have no idea what this tower is for, it somewhat could be a watch tower during the Japanese war invasion or it may had being watch tower for supervisor to watch over the workers during the old times. Whatever it is, this yellow tower sure had interest me.







Carry on with my cycling, again i'd past the location where i was just last week as my pit stop. Today i told myself, no i must go further, with all my will of strength, i push on. As peddling got harder due to climbing of an up hill, there is this “WOW” a first in Singapore Cable waterskiing, cool! This space used to be just an empty ground. Hmm...i guessed i have not really being to East Coast park for a very long time, so i sat down just for a little while and also managed to snap some shots.



I was just wondering while cycling, why is it today so pack with teens hanging around the park. Later i realized it's the school holidays now for some schools in Singapore, also i'd notice there are more and more people now doing their regular exercises from the time i saw last week and today also the numbers seem to be increased.

Finally, my pit, 15km. Bedok jetty, one of the most popular location in this park for fishing and also a rather great spot to let your hair down for some cool breeze. During in the evening is also always crowded with fisherman hobbyist or if you ain't there for the fishing, you can always still just watch them or even just hang around and enjoy some cool wind.





On my way out of the park, something that caught my eye which bring me forward to take one or two photos of these sand castle. Now back on the road, it is going to be another long and yet enjoyable ride for me, about another 15km more to reach home for a cold shower. Over all i guess i had went maybe beyond my abilities, however it had being an interesting ride and having great fun traveling from Toa Payoh to East Coast park, 33km.

$250/- Hasa is the brand, that is the cost of my brand new bike, a cheap yet upgradeable bike that can get me pretty far, i guess. My first trip is just only a scroll around my neighourhood as a little training for me to start of with, mind you i had not cycle for about a year already, anyway ever since when i bought this nice looking bike i could actually travel much further then with my old heavy bike.



My furtherest cycle at that time so far is still about 8km, for 2 weeks, same place every week, hahaha getting bored. Now my record is at least 25km at three times a week, also explore some of the place or things that i have not seen it before, sadly i didn't had my camera with me however i will put up some photos when i'm on my trip to some place again. So come back to this page again for more exicting photos on my cheap trail.