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Here are articles on gears that are used for triathlon training:  ultegra groupsets, garmin GPS, and  Bell helmets.

Bell helmets, which are usually carbon fiber reenforced are expensive.   >>>>Read more

Air Quality is deteriorating everywhere - can be dangerous to bikers?!

Real Cyclists

Rizal , PHL   June 2, 2013

 At Robinson's Home commercial complex near Antipolo Teresa boundary

For the last two months, I took the hobby of taking MM pollution pictures more seriously.  I used to take pictures only at the Lakeside park.  But now whenever I can I photograph cases of air pollution.  You can see how the air quality has gone from good to bad if not worse.

I quit jogging and marathon because the competition were being held in MM and I felt joining these affected my health.  Please see visually the air quality of places where we bike

                                     Tricycles pollute the air 24/7; are there further doubts?

                                       Pollution has reached Tanay mountains?

                                    From your friendly tricycle driver;  more smoke

                                    Hazy atmosphere assaults the noses of bikers in Teresa

                                    More pollution pictures in Teresa

                                       Pollution near Avida

                                  Air pollution from tricycles, please go away

                                  Distant air pollution from tricycle

                               Jeepneys in concert at one way section past Beverly Hills

                                    Dirty air near Robinson Homes

                                      Day become night at this area  at one way area in Antipolo

                                 Ascending Beverly Hills;  the jeep hides the road

                                  Tricycles in unison smothers the air with white smoke

                                    An MTB gets a puff of dark air near SM going to Tower Hills

                                    Tricycle again a culprit of air pollution

                                  The jeepney and tricycle - the king and queen of  air polluters

                                  SM is pro green or SM are first two letters of SMoke?

Bike Ride today June 2, 2013

Real Cyclists

Rizal  PHL  |  June 2, 2013

                                  View from the top of Laguna Lake and Manila East Road

As my posts reveal, I did not ride for two weekends.  And as such, I do not have much stamina and endurance to show.

I biked to Morong via Antipolo Teresa and went home via the Cardona bypass.  I saw some Recyclists at Maybancal:   Secx,  Joel, VM ,   Master, and Armin.  The rest have gone ahead to Pisong Kape. 

I also saw this again and took the picture;  it was just repainted:

                                                  You cant  have heroes without this(??!)

I am surprised that I was able to pass via Cardona bypass with much ease (by pedalling slowly). 

I focussed more on taking pollution pictures which on a day to day basis makes cycling no longer healthy.  Too much air pollution can kill:   it causes aside from respiratory diseases, Cardio vascular diseases (like stroke and heart attacks) and suicides.'

Let us campaign to make people be aware of increasing hazards of air pollution especially to biking and to our health.  Let us campaign to minimize if not eradicate the evils of pollution

                                View of Cardona bypass;   calls for strong legs and lungs

                                  The descent (ascent) is steep and it is sometimes scary

                                  View at the bottom of the hill - from the Cardona side
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                                 DPWH sign for the bypass;  cuts the travel time by 3 to 5 minutes

                                       The Rodama resort