This guy, Bert, born in Marinduque biked solo evening to Lucena to go home to Marinduque

Wheels of Happiness

Rizal Philippines
March 30, 2017

This guy Bert who hails from Marinduque, made kuwento that he went home to Marinduque via Cavinti Luisiana, Tayabas and Lucena up to Dalahican a couple of weeks ago to go home and attend high school reunion.  He left at 4 pm and arrived 11 pm in Lucena city, in time for the 11:;30 trip.  He encountered rains in Cavinti but he went on.    He just relied on his bike mounted LED lamp for his illumination.  Imagine that, night ride. solo.  We could not even ride that well during day  time.

But he went home solo and at night.

He did not even go home to their house in Marinduque.   He went straight to the reunion. and then later on went home again.  Solo.

Isnt that great.?

This guy even catches fish diving the murky waters of Laguna Lake (he could see the fish) and stay underwater for 5 minutes.  Wow.

I did another night ride today after I acquired Cosmic aero wheelset

Wheels of Happiness

Rizal Philippines  | February 20, 2014

I did  night ride again tonight  after I completed the swap of my Kysirium wheelset with Cosmic carbon aero wheelset.  It set me back by P25t.  Boyeth of Haooh did the transplant. Now the dream bike is complete:  Fuji carbon, Campy group set, Conti wheels and Cosmic Carbon wheelset. 

I went around floodway (from Highway 2000) to Manggahan, to Marcos Highway, then Imelda, then Ortigas, Kaytikling, Manila East Road and Home.  I had to brave the rush hour traffic though.  I must have averaged 30 kph.  My LED flashlight helped a lot and made me a night rider.

Perils of Night Rider

Bike and Save the Earth

I have a student who has a blog Knight Runner;  I have heard talks of MTB doing night stages;  But the one I experienced was a night ride I would not forget.  And there were a lot of perils:

Two buses nearly rammed us head on;   2 long l8 wheeler trailer brushed by almost 3 mm in the darkness.

The night ride happenned at the stage that we were coasting downhill and doing 50 kph and distance of about l0 kilometers;  it was scary;  there were no lights and you could hear were chirping of cicadas.  Occasionally, an incoming vehicle with bright light would blind you and then the lights would be gone;  it was total darkness and you could not see a thing even a fellow rider.  It went on for some 30 minutes.

I would say the distance between Pagbilao and Atimonan via new highway would be 50 km and hard ride at that!!!

It was worse than the roller coaster ride at Space Mountain in Disneyland.

I would not do that again.