Climbed up Hillsdale, site of many overlooking MM and Laguna lake said to be 20% gradient in some places comfortably

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Tried a greater challenge this morning -  climbing up Hillsdale at Botong Francisco blvd said to be 20% gradient in some areas without much difficulty.   Just a short maybe 1.2 km ride up.   Unlike the one featured in the video  Domsa and Cabrera road, quary road are much more difficult.   Saw that Hillsdale is guarded and two tarps one saying Bobi Plaza paid mayor permit and other one saying that most of the locators did not pay permits as per BPLO

Admired the view of Laguna Lake from the summit and the Church in Sky of Muzon.  

Assisted an mtb rider from Taguig climbing to Antipolo at Tikling who broke his chain

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This post assisted an MTB rider this morning ast Tikling.  He is from Taguig and he broke his chain. I stopped to find out how I can help.   Found out that he tore apart his missing link.   I thought I have several missing links :   9, 10 and 11 speeds.

So I dont need a chain cutter; only a misssing link.  However, the problem with his bike is that the chain is that its old and grimy.   The missing link wont lock because of grime.   After cleaning and  trying again I got the connection right.  However this post advised the rider to go home and buy a new chain.  If he wants to go to the church, better walk kasi I cant guarantee my job.    I am not a certified mechanic.   He was very thankful though because he can still go home on a limp mode

Other interesting things I am doing - watching bus travel vlogs

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Last night and today, I watched two bus blogs:   one Manila to Bordeos Polillo Quezon, and the other Manial to Zamboanga city.   The latter took 54 hours to complete and cost P5,000+ that crossed 9 provinces and crossed three bodies of water on ferries/roro.

This enabled me to revisit places I biked to  and then saw the roads that other went thru in their Negros cross country loop.