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Calling all pinoy adrenaline junkies and extreme sports enthusiasts! Baka magustuhan nyo ito, mga downhill mountain bikers and specially bmx’ers and ex-bmx’ers like me. Asan na kayo mga riders ng Bicrosser, Jammin Jay, PM Berries, Schwinn, Night Riders, Black Riders, Fox Riders, atbp pang mga nakasabayan ko sa pagka extreme nung mga nakalipas na dekada. Nasa inyo pa ba mga bmx bikes nyo hehe. Pede natin itong i-convert into a drift trikes! Alam ko na kahit me edad na tayo, the radness and madness still remain with us di ba? Kaya let’s bring back those gnarly days!

So basically what is “drift trikes” – the design actually come from it’s predecessor – the Big Wheel, a very popular toy in the 1970s in the United States, partly because of its low cost and partly because consumer groups said it was a safer alternative to the traditional tricycle or bicycle. Source: Wikipedia

I’m promoting “drift trikes” in the Philippines. Its been quite a hit already on many parts of the world like USA, Spain, Brazil, Thailand, New Zealand, Portugal and Italy to name a few. So far hindi pa patok sa atin ang ganitong uri ng extreme sports. Just imagine its less expensive  to build one drift trike. Would be riders only needs even just an old bike to start this hobby. Konting lagare at welding lang, lagay ng step nut sa front tire, customized a PVC rear tire, place a seat, and that’s it! You got yourself a drift bike!

I’ve done some research on youtube videos for the benefit of introducing this awesome sports to the pinoy extremist crowd. Please watch it.

Cguro ito munang video na ito, kase me pagka-documentary ito on how the drift trike starts.

Drift Trikes – Student Documentary Film

Sa mga advance stunts, they even made a small ramp to get some air haha

at sa mega super insanity trick, siempre hindi pedeng mawala sa kahit anong extreme motor sports, the backflip

Normal sa drift trikes ang rear tires made out of PVC, but in this video, the drift trike owner uses just bearings

here are more videos you can watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf4fI9Jh2Pg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1yyij0_LVg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx6TB3hvdpk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apm1cFVo1QI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BesBEdNN0M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNnG6UCD40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCtQdLwZAYU

http://youtu.be/R911VMNZ_kc

The fun and brotherhood is there, the riders were all happy with what they’re doing! There’s danger too no doubt about it, so always be prepared before drifting! Tara na! Drift na!

Like Pinoy Drift Trikes on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/PinoyDriftTrikes

Last Monday I’ve set foot again at the world renowned PICC (Philippine International Convention center)  for the graduation ceremonies of my kiddo Kevin at Access Computer College. There seems a lot of improvements and renovations since the last time I was here which I can’t recall the dates anymore hehe. I’m impressed with the fixtures and elegant design of their lobby that looks like t’was design by the famous Ethan Allen (a furniture company in the U.S.).

Ok let’s go back to the graduation scenario. There are thousands of girls and boys wearing toga’s that day. The place was fully booked with graduation rites from different schools, that they’ve set two schedules for it. One in the morning and another in the afternoon, we got the afternoon schedule.

Maybe because of the scorching heat and the long lines for the toga rental, one student falls down face first and instantly got a big lump on his face.  Good samaritans nearby helped him immediately and bring him to the clinic. I just hope he still was able to attend the ceremony after what happened to him.

Together with my partner, we were able to grab seats at the upper section, where one needs a telescope just to view the faces of those at the stage haha. Nevertheless, I still zoomed-in my camera to take some snapshots. As you can see from the photo above, its blurry.

Kudos to the school as they provided a photographer to capture that precious moment of every graduates while receiving their diplomas.

The most surprising thing that happened that day was when Kevin’s name was called to come up the stage, not to receive his diploma but an award. He was one of the more than 20 students that received an academic excellence award out of the thousands of graduates that day. He particularly received the Leadership Award. We were really agog on our seats and were clapping vigorously to the amazement of fellow parents around our seats haha! It was truly rewarding for me as a father to see his kiddo graduated, his award only came as a bonus. (You could see his medal at the photo below)

Kevin and Me

Kevin and his classmates

I also graduated that day. Graduate na sa pagbabayad ng tuition ni Kevin hehe

Kevin on two graduation rites

Thank you Kevin for all your effort and patience, for being serious in your studies, you haven’t fail us and you make us proud! We wish you success in whatever road you will take to uplift your future. Love you, Dad

This Manila-Bolinao-Zambales-Manila Loop all happened by chance, as I saw the wall post of my camera buddy Sir Kites on FB that he was inviting anyone to join him on a vacation to Alaminos, Pangasinan, particularly at Hundred Islands. We (ViaJista) have lots of ride plans this summer but unfortunately all my ride buddies were not available with the schedule. And so I made a decision to go solo this time.

But then… It instantly becomes one historical ride for me because this time I’m riding with my offspring Kevin, a.k.a. Kuneho of myamats.com. I was confiding to Kevin about the said trip and told him that my ride buddies have different reasons not to tag along this time, until I made Kevin to decide to come with me haha! It’s actually his first looooooong ride with his scoot! Coincidentally, his Ninong Ariel was here in Manila for a short vacation and supported him financially on this trip. (I think that really made Kevin to say yes haha!)

Ok, we took off a bit late on April 5, around 8:30am and travel this way (the route – Lagro, Sta.Maria Bulacan, Bocaue, Calumpit, San Fernando, Mabalacat, Tarlac City, Camiling, Mangatarem, Lingayen,  and ended in Alaminos, Pangasinan) we arrived at around 3:30pm at Brgy. Polo in Alaminos, Pangasinan where we were welcome with a sumptuous meal of the famous Alaminos Longganisa with bagoong isda sauce ,the delicious Ilokano Igado and a steaming rice! This is where we would stay for 3 days and 2 nights and you could imagine this is only their welcome meal!

April 6 – We woke up early, together with 15 other people, we need to get the early boat going to Hundred Islands for us to get hold of a much better cottage since this is peak season. So me and Kevin actually drove our scooter to the Alaminos Port and parked it there as we wait for the entourage. Lucky me as I got the chance to shoot the golden hour at the port while we wait.

The boat we got is super fast (sa kabaligtaran) every boat passed us smoothly that I thought we’ll land land on Governor’s Island at lunchtime haha! Good thing it’s still breakfast time when we arrived. I took no time in exploring the island just after I ate some heavy breakfast of inihaw na tilapia and rice. There’s so much to shoot!  The islands, the caves and the babes hehe. There’s also so much to do the whole day. We swim, we trekked, seized a power nap, a drinking spree with a bottle of Johnny Walker Black, munched n munched, done some caving,  and we even wade in the water (up to my beer belly) to reach a nearby island (around 30 meters from Governor’s Island) and of course a photowalk around the island.

We decided to go home at 5pm and reach Alaminos port at around 6pm but got home a bit late because the road were temporarily closed to give way to the very very long Lenten procession.  (by the way its about 10 kilometers from the port up to Sir Kites house). Have a quick dinner followed by a kwentuhan and inuman at the backyard (I need to be intoxicated this time to sleep well haha, the first night kase namamahay pa ako)

So you have reached this point! You might be thinking where is the Bolinao part? Kasunod na po hehe!

Actually our ride plan is only to Alaminos, Pangasinan, but since Bolinao is quite near from where we are (almost near Bani, Pangasinan) we decided to visit it as well before we go home. So on the morning of April 7, after packing our things and a hearty breakfast, we bade goodbye to Sir Kites and his posse. Our destination, Bolinao!

Its absolutely near, bcoz within a few minutes of riding (18 kilometers to be exact) we’ve reached the twin replica lighthouse of the place. Shoot some souvenir photos and off we go, this time the ride plan was again revised. We decided to make it a loop and take the scenic and much more longer way home, and that is thru Mabini, Pangasinan down to Zambales then to Lubao, Pampanga before going again to Calumpit.  Arrived at around 8:30pm at Novaliches. We thank God for our bonding and the wonderful trip and experience (although I got an oil leak on my gear box starting on the first day and a sliding clutch on the third day, Ozzy still delivers)

And as always, we arrived tired but happy and proud of another successful ride.

Travel Report

Road Condition – Perfect! (No detour, no repairs, no rough roads)

260 kms from Manila to Bolinao via Camiling, Pangasinan

(the route – Start at Novaliches QC, Sta.Maria Bulacan, Bocaue, Calumpit, San Fernando, Mabalacat, Tarlac City, Camiling, Mangatarem, Lingayen, Alaminos, Bani, Bolinao)

345 kms from Bolinao to Manila via Zambales

(the route – Bolinao, Bani, Mabini, Burgos, Masinloc, Botolan, San Antonio, Olangapo City, Lubao, Calumpit, Bocaue, Sta. Maria, ends at Novaliches, QC)

260 + 345 = 605kms + 35kms roaming around Alaminos, Hundred Islands = 640kms

640 kms / 14.42 liters gas consumed = averaging of 44.3 kms/liter