1st May 2009 is a day that will not be forgotten easily for the four of us -- Perly, Jayme, Vickie and me. Today’s ride started from Hougang for Vickie and me, we rode at an average 18-23km/hr to East Coast to meet up with Perly whom have met up with Jayme for dinner at Bedok 85. Nice food there! :D
Upon reaching Mac Donalds, we didnt really take a break except buying some drinks at the 7-11 and a quick smoke break… Yeah, we have some heavy smokers on this cycling group, so if you are non smoker, you’ve been warned here… lol…
We continued the journey towards Fort Road, passing Mountbatten and cut through Stadium Drive so we can ride on Nicoll Highway and cycle to our first pit break point at Keppel Bay. Nice night scenery there.
How beautiful? Well, words alone cannot describe this piece of night scenery at Keppel. A picture is always worth a thousand words right? Here’s an image I grabbed from the Flickr.
This is a nice picture doing justice with nice colors coming from the auto-changing bridge lights, I’ve got better links to share with everyone. From these links, you can see a 360 degrees view of Keppel Bay as though you are there!
Wait no further people, click on the images now… IE users may get the yellow notification under the address bar informing you to install the “DevalVR 3D Browser plugin” Ignore that and wait for the page to load fully. It may take a while to load depending on your broadband speed…
360 Degrees View of Marina Keppel Bay 1 360 Degrees View of Marina Keppel Bay 2 360 Degrees View of Marina Keppel Bay 3 360 Degrees View of Marina Keppel Bay 4
Source of the 360 Degrees View of Marina Keppel Bay: http://moonshine.homedns.org:2655/pano/ View more 360 Degrees View images of other locations from there if you like them. :D
4 of us spent estimated good 30 mins of rest at Keppel Bay before continuing the route to West Coast Highway and riding towards West Coast Park Mac Donalds as our next pit break destination. This time we rode all the way to the designated point with no intervals.
After refreshing/relieving ourselves at West Coast Mac, the continuing journey will be tougher. (Estimated 28 to 30km) Next destination was Kranji Reservoir.
Cycling along West Coast highway can be dangerous sometimes because there are often big trucks or trailers driving towards Jurong Island & Tuas area.
Areas we passed by are: Jalan Buroh, Jalan Boon Lay and the nice riding long road -- Lim Chu Kang road. Where is Lim Chu Kang road located? (click to view)
Along LCK, the moment we passed the chicken farms… yeah, the chicken shit smell was uber power…. =.=”’ thats the only thing I dislike about LCK, else its a really fantastic place to ride on but you must be cautious at all times, open up your ears to listen for roaring engine revs from speeding cars racing on this road. Beware…
Alright…. Its Video Time! :D
Jayme must be !$%#%%$^* at me now, why must post that malu picture of her online… Oh no, I’m not trying to get you embarrassed ok… I meant well to educate everyone, please drink more h2o during the before riding at night…
We reached the Kranji Reservoir park soon and visited the public toilet there for quick relief then we rode to the next pit break point at the 24/7 mini-mart along the Kranji industrial estate at Kranji Road. We took a long break there as Jayme’s muscles were still pulling. We should be riding the ever challenging Mandai Road for newbies on road especially when they’d never experienced much up-hills in Singapore plain terrains but due to Jayme’s pulling muscles, we switched our route to accommodate to the situation. The route we took was:
We reached city and decided to take breakfast at Crawford hawker center. After breakfast, when we were started riding in less than 10 meters, the weather turned foul and begun to rain heavily. The lucky four took shelter at the housing estate area just around the corner. hehe… another long break soothing the nasty pulled muscles on Jayme. :p
It took quite a while for the rain to simmer and we took a turn at Jalan Sultan, riding through Java Road before the good old Concourse, back to the usual Nicoll highway, Fort Road then back to East Coast Park. Total clocked distance ridden by Vickie and me was approximately 90km by the time we reached Fort Road. We took the underpass after Mac so we can start the journey back home and call it a “night” but the irritating rain came back forcing us to take another break under the HDB void deck at Marine Parade housing estates.
After the rain stopped, Perly rode towards Bedok South for his home in Pasir Ris, Jayme, Vickie and I rode on Still Road, sent Jayme back along Jalan Eunos and head to our start point Hougang. Nothing particular happened along the way except that owning shag face on Vickie… we didnt sleep a wink since 9pm when we started riding…
Congratulations to Vickie for being able to complete a Century Ride -- 100km! Well done man, its not an easy task for a girl who had never done this before, perhaps your old bike did really “trained” you well…
Perly clocked 120km, Jayme should clocked an estimated 90-100km as well.
Watch out for the ride next week, see ya soon! The END.
wasted. didnt know you guys riding on may day. could have joined in.
Helping H20 to advertise their products… Lesson learn.. :)
In fact, my ‘OLD’ Bike trains me well. HAHAS !
I said “h2o”means water lar!!! not that isotonic drink lor… Lol
hi, read a few of ur posts, im planning to do my night ride for the first time in sg, starting from ecp, what route do u think i should take for the first time? probably should take routes with least stress, well-lit, bike lane? itd b great if u have time to drop me an email n share! thanks!!=)
hi christine, where are you staying? and are u going to ride alone? well, since you are riding for the first time, i dont think you should be riding too far away from your starting point, otherwise you may have difficulties heading home later. It is better to ride with others rather than alone. drop me your contact @ my email so we can organize a causal ride with you perhaps? send me @ djxpire76@gmail.com, cheers!
Eric Lim