Post Exam - Night Riding

Without anything to bother about, without any boundaries to act upon, that's what carefree life after exams are all about. Now, i can decide what i want to do with my free time, at least till the day i go to work during october.

Besides the DOTA games we played, we went for a night riding on thursday. Destination? East Coast, from Hougang, and hey, what a day it was.

We rode to East Coast before and it was nothing new, but it was meant to be a "suay" day. The signs surfaced even before i borrowed the bike from Kelvin.

One of my bike was punctured, while the other could only be rode on 1 leg as the left paddle was loose.

I decided to ride the latter bike to kel's hse as i didn't favour the bus ride. Mark followed along. It started off well, everything was okay and i was able to ride upslope with 1 leg easily, then came the downslope where my right paddle, the only paddle fell off!, it couldnt be kept in place properly after then... Thus, i walked to kel's house, sometimes sitting on the bike during downslope. That's the 1st Ominous sign. Alright, i got to his house and rode his bike to Mark's house to meet Fabian, we prepared our drinks and proceeded to East Coast, and the worst thing happened, Mark's bike punctured around Eunos, half way to East Coast... We went to a nearby prata shop for a break and thought of all the possible ways out. No lucky star, nothing seem to be on our side. No spare bike, no 24hours bike shop. Eventually, mark rode on his punctured bike, not bad eh? to East Coast. And there was confusion there, i was on the neutral side but i thought we would be out whole night, so, i thought we would be arnd East Coast, waiting for daybreak and repair mark's bike before proceeding back home. But Fabian wanted to go back as they are going town the next day. So, we went back soon after, and mark bike began to give more problems, the rubber came off and got stucked, he had to do maintenance and at every 5mins intervals after that. Just after the place his bike got punctured, he did another maintenance, this time, taking out the whole piece of internal rubber, leaving just the external, and it is proven to work better, no more maintenance needed, just the need to cautiously ride over the bumps as it may spoil his rim. Anyway, it was about 3-4am then and there were not much cars around, we ended back in hougang at 4+. And that sums up our night riding day.