Exercise Nightrider was carried out on 21st December with our starting point at Bishan Park. There was a healthy mix of people from various years, a heartening sign for the organising folks. Everyone was punctual, well almost everyone, and we were ready to start on time if not for the sudden stunts from the uncle involving rear lights. The only exciting thing prior to our start was huikai hollanding even before the exercise had started.
The start took the troupe through long stretches of park connectors and overhead bridges down kallang to geylang where we had supper of frog leg porridge while watching triumphant vietnamese folks walk past us, where hours ago their vietnam had jus pawned our international contingent singapore team at the nearby kallang stadium. kudos to yong cheng for drawing enuff money and ryan for giving the nod so that we could have a free supper, courtesy of sig funds.
After which we carried on cycling to town and the flyer, apparently the half i followed missed the flyer stop, but the other group went to the flyer but hollanded on their way to the esplanade. amid the phototaking came the ultimate stunt of the day, darren's rear tire jus went flat by itself. witnesses claimed that all they heard was a sudden 'psssssssssttttttttttt'.
hours later, after the heroic tzer chew and co. finally managed to literally go out of the way to fit in a new tire for darren, we continued our ride along the outskirts of town down to serene centre where we had a long break, followed by our happening gift exchange. memorable gifts definitely have to include daniel's "world's best driver" gift which went to kai fen, and the pair who both received the same presents, a box of hersey's choc sticks!
the ride then turned time-trial, as we had to hurry down for breakfast 'cos of the morning fiasco and also due to the road activity picking up. squid left us for home at this point of time, and the rest cycled along lonely lornie road to macritchie where we a short break before gg down thomson for breakfast, at 5am, or was it 6?
having had prata at the prata hse, we finally headed back to bishan park, bringing an end to a memorable exercise that started with a saf-spoof notification msg, consisted of eating,sight-seeing,hands-on and time-trial segments and in line with the christmas spirit, ended with free taka shopping vouchers for those who did reply "YESman". alright, enuff words, someone upload photos. LOL!
