Bikes:// Events:// Phil Bikes 2014

Phil Bikes Expo 2014

Vintage Bike at Phil Bike Expo 2014

1936 Elgin Balloon Bike at the Phil Bike Expo 2014

Your Cateye's grandpa!

1953 Roadmaster Specialized Luxury Liner at the Phil Bikes Expo 2014

Phat Kat Bikes at the Phil Bikes Expo 2014

More Phat Kat Bikes at the Phil Bikes Expo 2014

A Cinelli at the MNL FXD GEAR's Booth at the Phil Bike Expo 2014

Cervelo's Booth at the Phil Bikes Expo 2014

Cervelo's P3, Canadian Triathlete Matt O'Halloran rides a P5

You can't see it from here but there's an aggressive looking angle on the top tube of this Pinarello with a snappy paint job.  

These Pinarello road bikes are equipped with a Claris groupset from Shimano, being sold for 42,000 PHP at the Phil Bikes Expo 2014

Control Tech's booth at the Phil Bikes Expo 2014

Triathlon is enjoying some popularity here in the Philippines right now and it's great as we see some great looking bikes here in the Philippines due to the active triathlon scene in the country.

Reminds me of Venom

Bambike was there at the Phil Bikes Expo 2014

Love the brazing on this fixie

Love the details!

Controltech's booth at the Phil Bikes Expo 2014

Detail of an Ave Maldea frame at the Phil Bikes Expo 2014, see the bike below

Chromed out Ave Maldea fixed gear bike at the Phil Bike Expo 2014

Brompton Bikes at Phil Bike Expo 2014

Brompton Bike Detail at Phil Bike Expo 2014

What a beauty, Columbia Balloon Bike at the Phil Bike Expo 2014

Columbia Balloon Bike at the Phil Bike Expo 2014

Bike:// Commuting

I haven't been able to update this site in a while since my laptop went kaput on me and after I've been browsing the web on the tablet primarily. The last time I updated was my birthday last year (that Halloween post). Since that time, we've transferred offices and I've been commuting to work every day. The office is a good five kilometers away so it's not an epic daily ride at all. Here's wishing all the bike commuters out there a safe ride every day!

-Gerard

Ride:// Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! One of the best nights to ride your bike, it's also my birthday so I'll be having a beer with some office friends and go home on the bike :D Photo credit: R. Kurtz via Flickr

Ride:// Fashion:// Iva Jean

Iva Jean's Reveal Skirt

Well here's a company that thinks about the fashionable female bike commuter. One of the cyclist-friendly clothing out of Seattle-based Iva Jean is the Reveal Skirt. The straight skirt unzips at the back to give it more fabric at the bottom that makes it easier to cycle. They've also got a Waterproof Rain Cape which is way not your typical plastic rain cape. Photo courtesy of Iva Jean (used with permission).

Bike:// City Bike at Sofitel's Spiral Bar

City Bike in a hotel bar

My sister just had her wedding this weekend and she had her reception at Sofitel Manila. This good looking bike greeted guests at the Spiral Bar. I love the color scheme and the white side wall tires just makes it pop even more.

Ride:// Gear:// Garmin Forerunner 10 GPS Watch

Garmin Forerunner 10 GPS Watch

Cyclocomps are great, but your adventures don't always happen on your bike. Track your next adventure with the Garmin Forerunner 10 GPS Watch, Garmin's lightest watch so far. GPS Watches are designed primarily for runners but its features are pretty useful for bikers too. It can track your time and distance and then you can upload your tracks to Garmin Connect.

Bike:// FlyKly Reinvents the Wheel

I've been wondering about when I could actually find an affordable electric bike that I will not be embarrassed to go to work on. It's just that a lot of the electric bikes that are available here in my country (Philippines) look more like scooters first then bike second. It's good that I found the FlyKly smart wheel on Kickstarter which has given me some hope that a workaround to what I'm looking for will soon be more available. The smart wheel will make commuting easier for cyclists and a lot of us will worry less about getting to work all sweaty since the FlyKly can do some of the heavy work for you. Let's support the team's Kickstarter campaign, they're still shy of their $100,000 goal but I really think they deserve a shot at getting the device to market.