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Centennial Ride starts at Convention Center!


Get your rickety old bikes out! Dust your frame, pump up your tires, oil your chain, we're going on a ride! Cyclists are taking the city streets again!

Anyone who has a bicycle and wants to ride in a pack of fun-loving, easy-going bikers, join the Baguio Centennial Ride on Sunday, September 7. We start at 9a.m. from Convention Center! Every one on a bicycle is welcome! The crazier your costume, the better! Well, actually the organizers would like people to come dressed in their profession's attire but I have a bit of a problem with that. Do anthropologists have a dress code? And if conference clothes are anthro outfits, there's no way I'm going to ride my bike in conference clothes. Ugh.

PLEASE WEAR A HELMET WHEN YOU RIDE!

And remember, cyclists can have a say on how traffic flows in Baguio, and how Baguio changes in the next one hundred years. (For the better, we hope.) Bring your pedaling power to an advocacy for clean air and better road courtesy between cyclists and motorists every first Sunday of the month, in the Green Ride!
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resty said…
Wish I had known about this earlier padma, will join the next centennial ride though, kung buhay pa ako that time hehe
6 September 2008 at 07:32
padma said…
Hahaha! You can still join the monthly green rides, every first sunday of the month! I'll be posting announcements here regularly.
6 September 2008 at 16:44
The Nashman said…
i was at critical mass oxferd pero it was funny kasi everyone is so used to cycling we all ended up in the King's Arms.

I wonder how long it will take to change the mindset of da pipol. We thinks it's weirdo to be cycling while our Dutch friends thinks it's weirdo not to be cycling...
7 September 2008 at 04:42
padma said…
85 bikers in the ride this morning! Reason to be optimistic, or were people just out for a party? Hmmmm, let's wait and see...
7 September 2008 at 11:43
resty said…
that's quite a lot of riders, padma. may i know who is/are behind these rides? thanks, ingat when cycling.
7 September 2008 at 16:50
padma said…
Manong Resty, The Daily Cycle Movement is behind the Green Rides. You can read about them in my link in the post above. Behind the Daily Cycle Movement are Jim Ward of Bliss Cafe, Imam Bedejim, Katti Sta. Ana, Bob Acosta. Katti and Bob have since relocated to Manila but there are many other riders who contribute their time, energy, and ideas to the movement.
10 September 2008 at 09:29
resty said…
hi padma, sorry to learn that katti and bob have relocated to manila. baguio's loss. thanks for the info re daily cycle movement.
10 September 2008 at 20:57
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