Tuesday, January 30, 2007


Back in the Saddle

I still remember my bike I left in Manila. It was a 1999 GT Zaskar decked in full xt gear with a manitou fork and shimano 747 clipless pedals.

I really loved that bike and when I was handling the Petron gas station in Bulacan I managed to squeeze in 30kms or about two hours of biking in rough farm roads everyday.

The bike was my constant companion during the 2000 Bike for Life wherein a group of us raised funds and awareness of cancer by biking from Manila to Cebu.

Pity I can't bring it here to the US.

Recently I bought a replacement for my Zaskar, a measly Avalanche 2.0 decked in a mish mash of parts but with a terrific Marzochi Comp fork and Tektra Aquila mechanical disk brakes.

It's not as light as my Zaskar which probably weighed in at around 26 or 28lbs. This is probably around 30 or 32lbs.

I bought it in Santa Monica and as a test I biked from Santa Monica to Downtown, roughly the same distance I biked before. But, and a big but at that, I was so woefully out of shape and not even in the proper gear. Add the fact that it was also raining last Saturday and it truly was an interesting ride.

Long story short, my legs and specially my ass still hurts from sitting for 2+ hours on that damned bike. But what the hey, it was a glorius sort of pain borne about by exertion and sweat. A pain that I pretty much missed.

Its good to be back in the saddle again.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Blast from the Past: Bike 4 Life : Manila to Cebu and Back Again

Those were the days . . .

I kinda remember most of the days of that epic ride.

More than a month on the road, all for the benefit of helping raise funds for children afflicted with the big C.







Wednesday, January 10, 2007

With Team Everest 2007



(from left to right) Pastor Emata, Karina Davondon, Geekus Extremus, Noelle Wenceslao
Greetings from Chub-chub Land

It seems that it was a long time ago since I last saw my toes.

Like hello tum-tums.

When i left Manila I was a burly 150lbs. After a couple of months in the land of milk and honey I have balloned to 165lbs. I now have prominent man-boobs but luckily i still retained my basketball sized ass-cheeks.

* sigh *

I miss my bikes . . .