Safra Runway Cycling Photo

[awcute]

Group photo first, since I need to give baru. One is edited heavily and you can guess which one.

[Berserk]

Awcute, thanks for the beautiful pics! 
But you weren't in any of them 

[awcute]

Awcute, thanks for the beautiful pics! 
But you weren't in any of them 

Coz I am the photographer, lah. you will see my shadow only.

[hi5]

Bro Awcute, thanks for the photos! 
Hope to see the rest of them when they are ready... 

Bro Berserk, thanks for looking after my back during our ride back home! 

[hi5]

Oso bro slimjim88, for sharing with me his experience!
Thanks! Nice riding with you during the event and after the event! 

[awcute]

Bro Awcute, thanks for the photos! 
Hope to see the rest of them when they are ready... 

pressure... may be tonight, if not all you will get half. 

[Strida Singapore]

  We would like to thank everyone who hung out at the roadshow and helped out in the hot sun and sold to just anyone who thronged the booth.

Many stayed till the event was over, past 12 pm.  Special mention must go to:

Rex, Regina, David, PPG, Tofu, Yen, Will555, Hippo, Minkhunk, Clarisa, Coolthought, Albert and Andy (my 'golden boys helpers' who helped set up in the dark at 5 am and drove a mean lorry!) who stayed back till the end to help tear down the booth and thus making it so much faster to pack up! Thank you very much, guys and girls!

Coolthought, you became our key bike jaga, making sure our bikes didnt go missing! Thank you! Tofu "& Yen kept a close eye at the Birdy bikes while Minkhunk happily took off with a CarryMe that everyone thought went missing! 

To Awcute, who ate and ate and still discharged his volunteer photographer job well, many thanks!

To Oklah and Hippo who bought us beehoon breakfast, kopi and bread, thank you (we ate them for lunch!)

To SlimJim88, Paricutin43, Hi5, KeepFitLah, Miloboi, Judy, HazyHub, Hazywif, Chris, thanks for coming for your first ride with the group. To Berserk, thanks for bringing some of the newer riders under your wings on your route back!

The weather was so hot so we were quietly grateful to those who stayed back and helped out! In the flurry of action, everyone was either talking to a complete stranger about some bike at hand, or opening another to show or nudging me or Steven for prices! It was a bit of blur after a while but it was a happy blur cos we were touched by the kind help we received from our Strida Riders!   


Albert and Andy, holding fort with the sturdy GiantPole and Ipole!


Rex and Regina showing a cyclist a Strida baby!


CarryMe in Technicolor


Strida Riders


Let me tell u about me Strida....


Rex and Regina in top Strida form


The Birdy Bunch


Bicycle Guru, Uncle George shows how it is REALLY done!


Uncle George holds court


Did u see the kevlar belt drive? No more grease!!!


What a beauty....


I can do this!


Paricutin pitching in


David Wang of Pacific Cycles showing Minkhunk the Birdy Classic


Uncle George teaches how to fold the Birdy


Awcute intros the Reach bikes


Will5555 is a silent 'aunty' killer!


Let me tell the Carry Me is small in size but it has pedal power!


Another "I want to going to charm' you moment!


Minkhunk takes a liking to the Birdy


That's the way to do it!


Sir, the Birdy Monocoque is a real beauty


A cyclist sharing a quiet moment with a Strida


Ahh, the shade is good


CarryMe ini bagus!


Booth mayhem


Uncle George talking to a cyclist about his CarryMe

[Berserk]

Bro Awcute, thanks for the photos! 
Hope to see the rest of them when they are ready... 

Bro Berserk, thanks for looking after my back during our ride back home! 

No problemo man 
Hope your mentioning of that won't cause ppl think that i like to look at others' back(side) 

[Berserk]

To SlimJim88, Paricutin43, Hi5, KeepFitLah, Miloboi, Judy, HazyHub, Hazywif, Chris, thanks for coming for your first ride with the group.
To Berserk, thanks for bringing some of the newer riders under your wings on your route back!

Sounds like i'm Mother Goose or something 
i was in front on the way outta Airport Road..
Bro SJ had the lead rest of the way.
He showed us the benign shortcut from MacPherson Rd to Potong Pasir where OkLah went solo back to her place. 

[awcute]

OK here are the selected few to be finished today.
Selection is based on subject matter or because I like to picture (colour, composition, angle and even subject(s)).

Here is 640x480 for fast up/download and medium quality JPEG compression.

If you want larger size image, please PM me the filename, and you preferred email address which can handle up-to 5MB file attachment.
If you just tell me to send you, your pictures, you will not get any as I will not know which one you want and I am not going to go thru all the pictures to look for yours, for everybody who ask me.
Also tell me if you want to get an original JPEG or the edited JPEG (which is mostly s-curved enhanced i.e.lighting only, a couple with cropping)

Phew... so tiring.

[davidtch]

It's my turn:
Part 1

Yummy Pizza


Latest Strida Poster


Baru & Chris


Not a Strida


Get ready

[davidtch]

Part 2:
GO!!










Roadshow

[OkLah]

it's Baru being sandwich

[OkLah]

more pics

[awcute]

More strida, carry me, birdy and reach bikes and the people.
Especially Beserk with his Chow Yun Fat's brother face.

[awcute]

Non Folding bike photos.

[coolthought]

After viewing all these photos taken with "sweat but no blood", I would say that Berserk is almost always ready to have his photograph taken (always with a good or great smile) and he is also the most photogenic person so far taken with his Strida in all of the group ride. A close second would be Tofu.

Woot!! a pink racer rode by a guy in the photo just above.

In fact, my friend and I noticed that after the first turn.... leading the pack is a cyclist in his super slick and fast pink bicycle who is followed closely by his friend (saw them passing through the checkpoint together earlier and we assumed it is) in a pink jersey. Man... they look so happy and "gay". Takes lots of confidence to wear such colours...

[Mark]

WOW ... what a fantastic event !!!!  THANKS for posting these great pictures.

Question : how did all the bikes feel to ride ?  eg Strida 3 / 5, carry me, Birdy etc. etc.

[coolthought]

WOW ... what a fantastic event !!!!  THANKS for posting these great pictures.

Question : how did all the bikes feel to ride ?  eg Strida 3 / 5, carry me, Birdy etc. etc.

The Carry me attracted the most questions and curiosity and followed closely by the Strida. Reason, probably, these are the most unique looking foldable bicycles and as well as the size that it is able to collapse to.

Personally, Carry Me hold a lot of interest to me too. It collapsed to about 2/3 (or more less) the size of the folded Strida. It weighs in at about 8.5 kg. Therefore, in terms of portability, Carry Me is a clear choice. Surpisingly, for such a small wheels, Carry Me is even able to match the speed of an average cyclist on a mountain bike. However, it is a pain to transverse on rough terrain as all the shock experienced by the bicycle is transmitted to the butt of the rider.

[awcute]

WOW ... what a fantastic event !!!!  THANKS for posting these great pictures.

Question : how did all the bikes feel to ride ?  eg Strida 3 / 5, carry me, Birdy etc. etc.

Actually different people are attracted to different bikes.
More housewives and elderly are interested in carry me.
More young professionals are interested in Strida 3/5.
The remarks are strida 5 is very nice to ride compared to strida 3, but well the price is another story
Birdy & Reach attracted people who want lots of gears... mostly mountain bikers are attracted to birdy and reach.

[baru]

    Aptly put, Awcute. Acute observations (no pun intended!)

[minkhunk]

Well after really trying the Birdy and the Reach, I must say that they are nice pieces of equipment man, especially for the avid cyclist who wants a high-performance bicycle. However, I don't really see much of a need for that in Singapore in terms of a commuter bike, and I will invest in one if I really am dying to go long distance or want to go off-road cycling often, which I don't really have the time for anyways! Haha still love my Strida the most!!! So sad it kana scratched like MAD when I parked it at the side at the booth... Confirm got some itchy fingers go and push my bike here and there and let it scratch against the railing... 

And of cos, our photographers are AWESOME MAN!!! Great photos as usual, captured all the joy of us riding and talking about the bikes, though I do admit that I looked super blur when trying to fold/unfold the Birdy man!!! Haha!!! (not easy actually, needs quite a lot of practice compared to our dear Stridas!)

[awcute]

Anyway as uncle george said birdy is not designed for ease of folding/unfolding but more for performance (gears) with, option to fold.

[poommm]

Good for health and good for world.
Peoples always smile on bike and can make a good day everyday.
I think it's an effect of biking.
Happy everybody !