Singapore's Bike events over the weekends (27Feb-01Mar09)

A couple of more bike events being held in Singapore at the end of February09.

1) Singapore MTB Carnival was held at MTB trail in Tampines (sponsored by Eneloop, rechargeable battery).

2) BikeAsia Expo. Motorbike and Bicycle Exhibition featuring well known brands such as Ducati, Piaggio, Montante, etc.

These 2 events and the earlier OCBC Cycle Singapore concluded series of events being held in Singapore for world's increasingly popular sports and lifestyle.

The MTB Carnival was for MTB riders competing in a muddy and challenging trail featuring the apprearance of 2 MTB legends (i.e. Two times Olympic Champion: David "Tinker" Juarez and the founding father of MTB: Gary Fisher).

==> David "Tinker" Juarez

To conclude, BikeAsia was held at the Singapore expo attracting both motor bike and bicycle enthusiasts finding out the latest style while enjoying fashion show, demo, competition, and seminars.

The two interesting brands of bicycles in the exhibition:

1) An Australian design's Street surfer (http://www.streetsurfer.com.au/), a part bike part skates vehicle making a new experience riding a bike, available through Malaysia/Singapore distributror: Global Bio-Resources (M) Sdn.Bhd.

A fine Italian manufactured "Montante" (http://www.montantecicli.it/).

OCBC Cycling team

Record Breaking Jump Competition (Asia Pacific)

Fashion Show

My son too had enjoyed the events very well.

OCBC Cycle Singapore 2009 (22Feb2009)

It's Singapore's first mass cycling event with around 5,000 participants. Organized at the location where the night F1 was held, the event was certainly drawing a huge crowd from all walks of life.

Beside criterium events, there were 4 categories for public (i.e. 50km, 40km, 20km and 5km).


(Map: copyright of OCBC Cycle Singapore 2009)
40km Challenge

20km Community ride





Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports - Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan at the 20km community ride.

Mighty savers - Kids ride -5km

It was a very hot day where there were a few cyclists who had to be chauferred by an ambulance to the hospital.

The organizer also rented out bikes for the participants.

Certainly a lot of bikes!

The public rides finished by midday, followed soon after by Criterium events.

Master's Criterium
There were local as well as overseas professional cyclists (i.e. USA, UK, NZ, Australia, Japan, etc.) participated in the events.
















The whole event was indeed quite succesful which should be done every year to promote cycling as a friendly and healthy sports.

I participated in the 20km - community ride on my Brompton bike. It was quite fun, though it was quite challenging not to try racing ahead of the pack when you were surrounded with hundreds of people riding different kind of bicycles. Congratulations to the organizer!

Looking forward to joining again next year.


Me: in front of Singapore Flyer wearing Indonesian Bike 2 Work community's t-shirt.