No bicycle lanes, but more space? Game on!

If you refer to my old post on "An Unofficial Bicycle lane", I talked about how great it was to cycle on the small buffer between the double yellow lines and the curb. I'm not alone!

These passionate people for the Lovecycling.net forums have began collecting data on Singapore roads, in a bid to make some additional space for us cyclist. For an example, there are 2 lanes in a one way road, right lane has 4m width, left lane 5m, but a car probably needs only 3m, so can the two lanes be reduced to 3.5 m and leave a 2m gap for cyclist?  And as the article says, it will benefit motorists and cyclists alike!

Cheers for such awareness, and hopefully when LTA is all done with the accidents and floods that have been happening we cyclists can be taken care of too. In the mean time, ride safe and Happy Lunar New year to all!

Bike rack too high!

This was what I saw At Yio Chu Kang Community Club, I saw the bike and rack from afar. And thought the rack was a new design...  But once I got closer, what I see is in the picture...

The bike (very cool and retro btw) is seems o be trying very hard to park into the rack, so is this an honest mistake? Did the workers who installed the rack think twice? Are they definitely not cyclists?

This obviously is a mistake! But yet why is it not corrected... Well that just brings me to the conclusion that only one person ever uses it. Food for thought.

I got myself a roadie!

After the Malacca ride, and riding a friend's road bike... I was convinced that I needed a road bike. And as I am a rather avid fan of Togoparts... I found a bike that suited what I wanted... About $600, 105 components... The person selling asked for $700 negotiable... When I got there, I was told the bike wasn't his but his friend's... We eventually settled on $588... Huat ah!

Back from the first ride with the bike and, to be honest, it felt like a a really light mountain bike... Probably thanks to the MTB SPDs I was using, the rather high stem and spacer placement, the seat lower than usual (I have not adjusted it to my liking, little by little I will adjust it till the sweet spot!).

The comfort was incredible, the acceleration extremely addictive, and of course the amount of control I had. All this in comparison with my Time Trial bike, I knew I have made the right choice of getting a road bike haha...

Gear changes are so much quicker again, comparing with the TT bike. This translates to better accelerations as I'm always in the gear I want to be in, when I want it. But it terms of flat land top speed... The aerodynamic advantage of the TT bike is impossible to neglect, I still love my TT!

I am now very addicted to the quick acceleration (how many times I said acceleration?), might use this bike for commutes to school!