These used to be my playground

My friend Layyen painted this which just brought back so much memories. Sadly most of this will be demolished to make way for other more purposeful uses. How much of your childhood places are still around in Singapore. Why are they special to you?

Painting by Lay yen 

Minister Khaw writes about the LCSG Sunday ride!!!

This made my day.! Yeah! This is great for Singapore cyclists! 
Minister Khaw wrote
" A recent FB message resulted in an invitation to cycle with Love Cycling SG, which we did last Sunday. We did 15 km along the North Eastern Riverine Loop and the weather could not be better. This is a very friendly group, with many children. They assembled at a nearby MRT station and cycled as a group to the meeting point at Punggol Waterway. It was a delightful sight, with the children cycling in the lead and the parents behind. Some 60 cyclists turned up and we had a great time, sharing our views on how else we could get more Singaporeans to cycle and to do so in a safe manner. I am optimistic that the cycling movement will continue to grow and Singapore will be great for cyclists in due course. I will do my part to help realise this vision." 

Rain Charm and bikes

This was an interesting snippet which I saw on my friend FB page. Apparently its a rain charm.  He tried it and amazingly... it works!
Now that we are at the rainy season.. we all would like our bikes to be shiny and clean. Maybe be if we have this on our bikes.. it would give us a sunny day. I don't think I mind to hang it on my bike. Some one try it out and let me know if it will work on bicycle:)

Photo credit: Allen Chew

Here's more on this interesting charm history by PM Lee! 

A nice surprise guest for a relaxed sunday ride

We do sunday rides. The general idea is to come together, do a "slow down and smell the roses" ride. Explore a part of a country which you might not be so familiar.

Yesterday we visited Punggol Waterway and we also had the great honor of having Minister Khaw riding with us!  Actually there were also the Nparks, URA management team rolling in the midst of the group.. which not many realised. But that's ok as they just wanted to meet real riders and users of the park. It was a nice gentle roll... with quite an awesome turnout.  

Lovely slow ride which allow people to chat while they cycle. Try it someday.. slowly does it and experience the simple joy of cycling!

LCSG Bike Skill Workshop - 27th Oct 2013

one for the camera!

As Lovecyclingsg family becomes bigger,  we sometimes meet riders who could do with a little more guidance. It helps already when we ride together on sunday as the newbies can learn from the more
seasoned riders. For safe cycling in my opinion, it is experiential. This means you just can't talk about it. Just like swimming.  To improve, you need to get ur "feet wet" and just practice.
On the 27th Oct 2013 Sunday, this was what we did. About 70 folks from LCSG and Chai Chee CC gathered at the Bedok Adventure park to practice their bike handling.  Using cone spaced out in many patterns, the riders learned about slow riding and keeping in a straight direction. The obstacle patterns mimicked some possible senerios on everyday riding.  Riding on the pavement, on the road with traffic. The focus was on controlling the bike in slow speed and turning in a smooth and safe manner. We also got them to practice emergency braking. First using just the front and then the rear, followed by both. This got the riders more used to their braking power and also understand how each braking can affect bike handling.
To many who don't realise, this bike Skill workshop can only happen with help from the Lovecyclingsg Angels. They are Pierre Chew, Jasper, Clarence, Vince Li, Nixs, Desmond Chia, Tiger Wan, Steven Tang, Keng Yong, Francis Chu, Berenda, Kimi Oh and many more. The man behind this is none other then our very own Encik George Lim. He not only prepared the course work and secured the location with Chai Chee CC support.  Many thanks for all your efforts!
More photos here 

Briefing by Encik before the workshop

Initally a narrow but ok spaced cone

It got tighter... opphs

Momo and Kimi also practised!

Learning to ride with one hand....so later can progress to hand signalling

Slalom course. Learn to avoid.

LCSG Angels at work to set cones in another pattern. Under the hot sun. Team, I salute u!

Riding as slow as u can from one end of field to the other side

甜蜜蜜 Concept of a rear bicycle rack for couples

Clearing my laptop and I found this. haha.
Inspired by the show 甜蜜蜜（Tian Mi Mi) where Leon Lai rode along on a rickety bicycle with the girl.

 Time stamp 1:36

This was a concept I submitted for Seoul bicycle design sometime back. Nope, it did not get a mentioned but I still think this is a very romantic and nice thing for a bike.
I wanted to use a piece of music, movie to inspire product design. I just love the way the relationship was spontaneous. The magical feeling of music merging seamlessly to the footage.  Add a front basket for a picnic or put bags that would be the ultimate "pat tor" bicycle.  What do you think?

LCSG is 3 year old Picnic - 6th Oct 2013

6th Oct 2013

Awesome video by Joeel. Many thanks!

Friends who met with a bicycle @ bottom of Benjamin Sheares bridge 

We had a kiddy ride from Kallang Mac to Benjamin Sheares via the PCN. It's a nice easy route for newbies and kids

Its the 3rd Lovecyclingsg anniversary. What a journey! We spent the weekend in a very unique way, by having a simple picnic. It was great to see children playing with each other, friends chatting and having a nice meal. Also try out my wifey super duper Mee siam... amongst the shiok food everyone brought along.
  More photos on the event here 

Kim's super super delicious Dry Mee Siam for LCSG Picnic

L-R, Esther, Sharon, Shelby, Kim and Francis 

L-R:Siti, Bernenda,Jen Nie and Cindy

L-R: Cayla, Momo and Kimi

L-R: HongKiaw,Allan, Wendy,George Kee, Uncle Teo, Louis

Super nice cake by Christine and Andy... and on the right is Desmond.

Singing happy birthday to LCSG... yes its 3 years running!!!

This is a simple picnic to remind us that its all about the friendships and fun. Life can be simple and easy. I hope LCSG can continue to blossom and more will enjoy the love of simply cycling. To more great years ahead!

Vince and Gan Poh gooffing around... generated lots of laughter

Super duper compilation of Brompton how to dos... by Alvin and team!

Ever wanted to service your Brompton but don't know how? Well, now thanks to Alvin, you can learn it too!