We thought we would do a short one today. So we said so.
And off down the lane we went, cutting across the main road real quick and onto Joo Chiat Road, which is well known for its beef pho and real good Vietnamese coffee (and its accompanying neon lights) and where on one end there's chicken rice whilst on the other, there's nice chocolate ice cream and vintage style cafes and old-school pau bakeries and a host of newish bakeries offering cupcakes and muffins and eggless cakes.
This is one road where cars try hard to be patient with cyclists, and where cyclists learn to maneuver cars in the most careful way.
We turned left, and down the road we went. East Coast Road is an interesting one, traffic lights aplenty, buses aplenty, there're schools on either side, some old, some newly built. There're plenty of terraced houses and bungalows, there're shops. A bicycle shop, a provision shop, a Turkish restaurant, amidst others that offer all kinds of food from steak to pizza to Indian.
Bedok South Road is another left, and this one's got factories on one side and housing blocks on the other. Here, his tail light went poof, which the co-rider (me) could see from a distance and therefore said co-rider (me) had to pile on the adrenaline and race just to catch up with him, whilst countering it with deep breathing to calm the self and watch the road.
I caught up with him, of course, and by then we were up along the gentle curve of a road round the side of Bedok Reservoir, which is really a quarry and then was met with road works- on a weekend night- and then a steep hill down before heading back to the starting ppint along Eunos and Still, which, thankfully, were uneventful save for a bit of prayer and a bit of bouncy, boingy moments.
And off down the lane we went, cutting across the main road real quick and onto Joo Chiat Road, which is well known for its beef pho and real good Vietnamese coffee (and its accompanying neon lights) and where on one end there's chicken rice whilst on the other, there's nice chocolate ice cream and vintage style cafes and old-school pau bakeries and a host of newish bakeries offering cupcakes and muffins and eggless cakes.
This is one road where cars try hard to be patient with cyclists, and where cyclists learn to maneuver cars in the most careful way.
We turned left, and down the road we went. East Coast Road is an interesting one, traffic lights aplenty, buses aplenty, there're schools on either side, some old, some newly built. There're plenty of terraced houses and bungalows, there're shops. A bicycle shop, a provision shop, a Turkish restaurant, amidst others that offer all kinds of food from steak to pizza to Indian.
Bedok South Road is another left, and this one's got factories on one side and housing blocks on the other. Here, his tail light went poof, which the co-rider (me) could see from a distance and therefore said co-rider (me) had to pile on the adrenaline and race just to catch up with him, whilst countering it with deep breathing to calm the self and watch the road.
I caught up with him, of course, and by then we were up along the gentle curve of a road round the side of Bedok Reservoir, which is really a quarry and then was met with road works- on a weekend night- and then a steep hill down before heading back to the starting ppint along Eunos and Still, which, thankfully, were uneventful save for a bit of prayer and a bit of bouncy, boingy moments.
Because I started knowing that the tire would soon be running out of air and I ended the ride knowing that the tire would now sooner be running out of air.