this Palm Sunday ride was organized by atty tiboy reyes...however since there were only 3 confirmed filchi riders who wanted to participate (the others begged off wanting to watch Pacquiao Marquez boxing match
) i told atty tiboy "we can always hang out around 6am at the Burger King Sta Lucia and join any group wanting to do sierra madre attorney" and so that was it.
6 am we hanged around Burger King. Waiting for cyclists to arrive. we saw Category A riders Eric Carandang Jon Urutia and Anthony Dy, they just did sierra Madre on a saturday and today they have to meet Leian Cruz somewhere in Antipolo as they want to do Jalajala bugarin ride...so we begged off.
we saw King Bernas of team X terra..i asked if he was waiting for any group.."yes our group from team Xterra wanted to ride Sierra Madre with our boss Edmund Mangaser owner of All Terra Bikeshop..we can ride together ray.." and so we waited for their group to arrive and decided to ride with them..
their team brought coach Cesar Lobramonte along..and they want a 95 kilometer roundabout ride sierra madre. Atty tiboy was feeling under the weather .."i just came from bicol ray..take it easy on me..im not 100percent ok..." atty said. "of course we can ride garden cottages...or sierra madre i have my car if you feel you have to stop...we can ride the car attorney." i said.
so we tagged along the group of team Xterra..i listened to their coach and we had wonderful time.
we couldnt match the high rpm spinning of team xterra...so at the garden cottages...me and atty tiboy got dropped.
garden cottages
"atty i think we need the compact crank plus the speedometer with cadence.. we can't match the high rpm spinning of team Xterra." atty. laughs..
we reached sierra madre, went down sampaloc, and after 70 kms, decided to call it a day.
Thanks so much to my good friend atty. Tiboy, Saul Sibayan, and team Xterra. We had a wonderful time.
We look forward to ride with you again soon.
Raymond See
vintage Bataglin purchased from Wings bikeshop Hongkong
the proud owner from team X terra
thats the boss EM Edmund Mangaser owner of All Terra Bikeshop and organizer of the famous XRC cycling series...leads the peloton enroute to Sierra Madre
this is Winston Chua showing his fine form on and off the bike
this is our group..negotiate first long climb up foremost farms...
thats superboy saul...90 lbs pure climbing machine
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cottage industry in this part of the philippines...squid ball/fish ball sticks being dried on the side of the roads
me and atty tiboy (up front) struggling up the climbs at the garden cottages...you know thats a high mountain when you see the clouds....its below your bike...at road level already...
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heres the video clip garden cottage climb
catching up with attorney tiboy near cloud 9 ..... !
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daghang salamat..i see a pitstop!!!
first stop ..this was in an eatery after the garden cottages climb..
this is the view out the window from this eatery
this is the downhill after the eatery...beautiful scenery...all the way...no cars too
at sierra madre...i asked for a foto of our friend noel on this beautiful Jamis Xenith pro Carbon
close up of the JAmis carbon
"daddy this is the photo mommy took when we were at the sierra madre hotel" thats my daughter enjoing the tourist spot....after waking up at 430am this morning wanting to go with daddy again for one of his "excursion" rides....
thats my beautiful wife...foto taken at the back of Sierra Madre hotel..showing the sierra madre mountain ranges...thanks swithart for tagging along and taking our fotos.
we reached sierra madre ..regrouped and then proceeded down sampaloc ... superboy saul was asking "and how are you feeling today kuya?" " dying up that garden cottages again..next time ill try that climb on my compact cranks ...saul " i replied.
team xterra at the eatery in tanay
team rocka filchi..."this is as far as we go guys...we look forward to ride with you again soon"
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