Archive for February, 2010
A Valentine’s Ride With Wife and other Couple
by iano16 on Feb.14, 2010, under Mountainbiking, Rides
I got an invite from a friend, Francis a week ago if I am interested in a couple’s ride on Feb. 14th. Just a newbie friendly ride, where our wives can handle, especially his wife, since that will be her first trail ride. I already introduced my wife on trail riding so it won’t be a problem for her. The plan is to ride the La Mesa trail, but Francis told me that there will be a lot of people who will ride on that day, so, he suggested to go to Sta. Elena, instead. I replied, that it won’t be a problem for me. So, instead of going up north on February 14th, we went down south for our couples valentine’s ride.
Upon arriving at Sta. Elena, we’d got problem that the security guard won’t let us enter the village if we don’t have a resident companion or an invite from any of the Sta. Elena residence. Because of it, we decided to go to Nuvali.
At Nuvali, we found out that a trail run race sponsored by “North Face” was held. Thus, we’re not able to use the trail as the race is still on-going.
For A Change, A Cross-country Ride
by iano16 on Feb.06, 2010, under Mountainbiking, Rides
It’s been awhile that we do a cross-country ride, since most of us are more inclined with downhill mountainbiking. Anyway, this ride was planned by Toto of Intense Bikeshop intending to hit Malipay trail near Portofino Village-Alabang with a lot of new faces. Meetup was set at around 6AM at Intense Bikeshop. But, since I knew Toto to be always late at meetups, I intentionally came in late at around 630AM. haha!!!
After the meetup we proceed to Portofino-Alabang and meetup a few more guys there. And around 730AM we proceed to Malipay trail. This is what I like with downhillers riding the technical cross-country trail. They do it hard and fast on technical terrain and hates long uphill and boring straight double-track road. Of course, who wants to ride uphill with their heavy downhill bikes? On this ride, we tackle only the technical cross-country path were most cross country riders carry their bikes, but for agressive riders like us, we rode it all, as much as possible. Since we hate boring staright double-track trail, we skipped passing through sugar cane plantation.
Our initial entry was blocked by an intimidating bull. He doesn’t want us to pass. haha! But hey, we’re supposed to be the masters, right? Dino, tried to command the bull to move out, but, he’s an immobile beast. Luckily, with a little bit of Dino’s aggressiveness, the bull went away.
