Monday, March 30, 2009

New parts.

So, I have gotta my not so new saddle.. it's second hand from some guy who live around compassvale for quite cheap, 10 bucks only and it looks professional. HAHA.. and I had dea with this guy in CCK for his cleats in exchange for $30. and another $110 well spend on my new SPD MD76.. tt's 150 gone.

Had gone out in 2 ride in my spd and find it quite good actually. And I don't think I will commute to work now cause I had just returned from a short short ride of about 7.5 KM and I am sweating like hell. Imagine I will be sweating like hell b4 I work.. no man.. it's uncomfortable..
Maybe I will do it on friday where I will be meeting someone at ECP tp ride..

So, whats next? maybe slick tyres.. I may put up another post to look for some body who wanna change their tyres to semi-slick from slick.. so I will do a 1 to 1 exchange and then change ther pump as slick tyres has got to use diff type of pumps.

Tights, i may need one.. to protect me from NOT able to celebrate my father day next time.



My not so new saddle.


My SPD and the cleats behind.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Commuting to work.

So, I have been considering to ride to work these few days and I need to consider several factor which may or may not work it out for me.

1) Traffic. From my place to KA Centre, I would say it's pretty much safe as I will be travelling in the bus lane most of the time. well, except at yck rd towards serangoon stadium. But, I will be wearing my safety gears all the way so it's pretty much safe.

Then I need to convince my mum, sisssss that I am safe to work everyday. I know I am cause I can say that I am a very catious rider. Speed? max I can go on a downslope everyday to work is about 40kmh? the rest will be about 25-30kmh.

2) Freshen-up room. okay, so basically I won be sprinting and I will take roughly about 10-15 minutes to reach my place so I dont think I will be sweating a lot and I don have a shower room. only a toilet. So I guess wat I will do is to bring a towel and wipe myself up. change into my jeans and polo tee to work.

3) My BB is still not fix. I am kinda lazy to get it fix, I just want a new bike. LOL. If I can choose, road bike. yea. polygon helio 300 will do. haha.. or any entry level road bike. or maybe a hardtail with lockout and slick tyres. This is the most troubling point as I need to spend $ on it...

4) I goona need to carry my45+10L haversack to work everyday! to put my clothes and shoes etc..

5) MOST IMPTLY, I need a place to store my bike. Okay, my work place is like when you enter the main door, you have to enter another small door to go into the store so that place is some sort like a buffer zone and it's quite safe as very little ppl came in and out. mainly forwarders, us and the engineers. I need to ask Kian Hua who is the head of the store for permission to put my bike there.. if this fail, tt's it.

TO ADD ON TO POINT 3... I want a new bike or maybe can some one give a gt ava 1.0 as my birthday gift? if not, 4-500sgd will be enough as well! pls! lol...