We had a great ride yesterday to Wind turbine farm in Bugarin with MTB kapadyak of Richard

Wheels of Happiness

Rizal Philippines
April 3, 2016

Richard Ang invited me via FB pm, and I joined yesterday a group ride to Wind Turbine farm in Bugarin Pililla.  Assembly was 5:30 Jollibee Angono downtown.  Most of the riders were there at 5:30, except for Richard who came some 10 minutes later.  We met up with two other riders from San Carlos and off we went.  Our first stop was at Simples Lugawan (well they did not eat there)  We rested there for 10 minutes.  Nolite arrived there too.

Then we proceeded to Hacienda Pisong Kape, then to Bugarin.  I had a chance to have buko at OL where I waited for them to arrive and then to wind turbine farm.   There was a lot of picture taking and fun too.

One can not but marvel at the size and might of the wind turbine.  They are all ready functioning but not interconnected yet to the grid.  Sayang ang power.  We went home by 10:00.  We stopped at the Cardona Morong pit stop where we had some cold drinks (Lemon Soda at 10 pesos each)

In order to take their pictures, I had to sprint ahead of them, gain  by say 1 to 2 minutes to set up for the pics.  I was tired:   one in Calllahan, one in Baras Tanay boundary hill, one in Biak na bato, and one at OL.

Hera are some embedded picture from FB:

Group pics at the #Altenergy wind turbine farm at #Bugarin
Posted by Jorgeus Biker on Friday, April 1, 2016

Congratulations for the bikesharing project at UP

Wheels of Happiness

Rizal Philippines
March 30, 2016

We congratulate a group of students in UP, who pooled their talents and resources to have a bikesharing project for their last mile. (Featured in a segment of Green Living of Paolo Abrera at ANC - UP Bikeshare)

From UP Edu - bikesharing project in UP

It is such a great initiative and commendable at that for setting up a system.  Our LGU are starting with bike lanes.  But it has not transformed bike as a viable mass transport system.  In China, Vietnam, Amsterdam and other parts of the world biking, which is a green initiative is mass transport system, equal or of the same significance as bus or train.  Our DOTC has not made a breakthrough to develop such a system.

It is notable that the students have made  a low cost system to make this work.  In NYC the cost to set up a system cost NYC $5,000 (about P200,000 each) for a bike.

There are only about 30 users and the number has not increased and they discovered that not many are subscribing to this idea because of perceived safety concerns.  (Yes after seeing a lot of news on bike accidents. There was one in bisikleta iglesia last Holy Thursday)

Again, UP bike share congrats.

Practice ride 2x loop arond Cardona diversion Binangonan route - getting stronger and faster

Wheels of Happiness

Rizal Philippines
March 29, 2016

I had my practice ride today riding around the Cardona diversion twice.   The difficult portion there are as was experienced in every time we ride to Morong and Pililla are:    the Mambog portion, Callahan, the diversion  (there are about 3 hills there, the first one being  the toughest) and the LLDA portion.  I just did the 2x next time I increase it to 3 and eventually 4. to simulate  the race situation.  I guess this ride makes me stronger.

My growing riding time make me faster too. Before, I can only sprint max to 30 kph.  Now I can do 35 kph at a much sustained (say 15 seconds) period.