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Adidas promo!

Ok, so I’m beginning to be partial towards the Adidas brand since I’ve been buying so much stuff from them recently. When I started getting into cycling, I loaded up on clima-cool shirts. I also got some cycling specific Adidas apparel (gloves and shorts) from Velocity, Cartimar. 1 Besides, have you seen their stuff lately? Awesome designs! I totally would’ve preferred their document credit card/checkbook organizer over my much more expensive Oakley one – if only they had released it sooner.

I found that Adidas is my “Zara” when it comes to sports; their stuff simply fit me better than the Nike’s 2 Their shirt’s sleeves tend to be too long for narrow shouldered people like me. et all.

Cris and I will be going “Pinatubo trekking” with her highschool classmate in a few weeks, and I thought I’d invest in a good “all-mountain” shoe that can be used for MTB riding as well (because using cleated shoes is difficult on trails etc.). I’ve been considering a model called TerreX but was contemplating if it was worth its 3.5k price tag. The Terrex was appealing because its mostly mesh (highly breathable), and it has what they call “step down construction” which allows you wear the shoes as sandals (by just folding in the back part).

I was already considering getting it even at 3.5k, then I found out about the promo… Read More

Notes

Notes
⇡1 Besides, have you seen their stuff lately? Awesome designs! I totally would’ve preferred their document credit card/checkbook organizer over my much more expensive Oakley one – if only they had released it sooner.
⇡2 Their shirt’s sleeves tend to be too long for narrow shouldered people like me.
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Integration

Again, can’t think of a apt title so there.

I’ve decided that its too much of hassle to use my trunk-mounting bicycle rack for carrying the bikes.

  1. It takes a good 5-10 minutes to set the rack up and make sure everything’s nice and tight. 1 You don’t want something like that coming lose while driving
  2. Trunk is rendered “unusable” from the outside at that point; I have to spend another five minutes organizing the backseat to collapse (allowing access to the trunk from the inside 2 Not to mention the challenge of moving my pillows. etc.
  3. Mounting the actual bikes to the rack is also a challenge; I have to make sure the pedals, forks, etc. are positioned a certain way so that it’s easy to tighten down and not have them scratching each other.
  4. All this is usually done in the sun… #3 is done at least 4 times 3 Mounting, unmounting when we get to the venue, mounting before you go home, unmounting when you get home
  5. Speed of driving is severely hindered; anything past 60 and you can feel the rack rocking…

So I decided to “retire” it and get a proper system despite the risk of botching up the look of my car. Practicality won this time.

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Notes

Notes
⇡1 You don’t want something like that coming lose while driving
⇡2 Not to mention the challenge of moving my pillows. etc
⇡3 Mounting, unmounting when we get to the venue, mounting before you go home, unmounting when you get home
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Bisikleta Iglesia

… NOT!

My first time going with a group of five on a “commute.” The Bisikleta Iglesia didn’t push through; so we decided to go on a more difficult ride hahahaha. We were supposed to go to the Maarat trail. Tricia [correctly] suggested we drive there so we could spend most of our energy hitting the actual trail area everyone knows about. Unfortunately that was overruled and we ended up attempting to ride to the place – and ended up in some dirt trail right after the Divine Mercy Village before calling it quits.

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Bike pr0n!

Here’s some bike pornography as promised. But before that some kwento and breeze-shooting.

Cris and I were biking last saturday along her area and she stopped early 1 she had been practicing before I got there and I continued on for another hour alone and went for another 15km (I know because I bought a cyclocomputer). Then we biked in UP sunday afternoon and put in a good 18km. Then I’m going with Elaine, Paul, etc. to do a “Bisikleta Iglesia” 2 It’s funny; it took a girlfriend to get me going to attend church again… and it now takes a bike to make me do another “religious” activity.

Apart from wishing it was easier to “prepare” for such activities, 3 Literally, it takes so much time to mount/unmount the bikes to/from the car, and get my gear ready, and the rituals to go through when we’re done I’m surprised as to how I’m enjoying this new hobby. I mean given the obvious fact that everything was so sudden, I do admit the possibility of a hype/fad. But then there are a lot of other things which I hope would make this a long-term thing. Read More

Notes

Notes
⇡1 she had been practicing before I got there
⇡2 It’s funny; it took a girlfriend to get me going to attend church again… and it now takes a bike to make me do another “religious” activity.
⇡3 Literally, it takes so much time to mount/unmount the bikes to/from the car, and get my gear ready, and the rituals to go through when we’re done
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(a)musing(s)

Siyempre after I got on my soapbox in the last post, I totally didn’t “deliver the goods” during a performance in CTK. Not just “not deliver properly” my alleged part, but quite literally was nowhere in the vicinity to deliver.

I saw my [half] brother-in-law Bubi attend the thing and we got to talking. The fact that it was ridiculously cold and he was a race-car driver led us both to the most logical agreement of thawing out in parking lot so he could also check out my car. We were slated to sing in the second set, and it seemed there was so much time. I was expecting literally 10 more minutes or something… even without an intermission/break.

About 3 minutes into the conversation, I look to the church and see a group on stage wearing earth tones. Strange… only BP was wearing earth tones as far as I can recall. When I saw Ali’s unmistakable scarf, it dawned on me that the second half had already started! Read More