Mar 2 2010

Life lessons

10 things to not do on one’s weekend cycling expedition:

  1. Forget to adjust one’s seat at the rental place. Some rental bicycles have their quick release whatyoucallit missing, so the seats actually need to be unscrewed with a spanner at the rental place and raised, if you have long legs like I do. (I didn’t think I had long legs, until now. Or maybe the person before me was a stumpy 10-year-old. Who knows.)
  2. Refuse to buy/wear bicycle shorts. Sore ass.
  3. Inform others of your high-tech silicon gel seat with a vent that sends air gushing erm upwards. Actually, this is not a strict no-no, especially if your party trick is creating that mental image of a well-ventilated butt crack.
  4. Press on for another 5km in order to buy chicken wings from Changi Village, when left with one hour on one’s rental.
  5. Neglect to find out the rental shop’s contact number. In case you need to make an assessment of whether you have enough time to cycle all 20km back. If your ass can take it.
  6. Joke about buying chicken wings at Changi Village. We took twice the amount of time we thought we’d take to finish the 5km, and decided to take the cab back to East Coast Park instead. As we were walking towards the main road, someone asked, “Aren’t you going to buy the chicken wings?” “Oh I was just kidding!” So yeah, No chicken wings.
  7. Pick big chunky bicycles that can barely fit into the boot of a normal taxi. Y’know, in case you run overtime and have to take a cab to go back to your starting point. Where you don’t have a choice of what bikes to use, then DON’T RUN OVERTIME ON YOUR RENTAL.
  8. Forget to tip the sweet taxi uncle who ungrudgingly takes care of all the complex rope-tying and hooking, in order for the bikes to not be tempted to make a break for freedom from the back of the taxi. The entire journey through the small roads, road humps, expressway traffic and all. Be generous. Really. We did tip the taxi uncle. I’m just sayin’, don’t forget to show your deep felt appreciation.
  9. Not have a fantastic dinner awaiting you after all the cycling. Ooh that was good.
  10. Did I mention the bicycle shorts? BICYCLE SHORTS.

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