In this section, we feature stories of our Joyriders who have come a long distance from their very early days of riding with Joyriders to achieve new personal triumphs.
We hope each of their story will inspire you as much as they have inspired us.
Bonking I’m not great at “suffering based” sports. I bonk at the slightest opportunity. Since my return to cycling in February this year after a 7 year break, I’ve bonked at least 6 times. Void of glycogen, my body would cease up and the legs could barely turn the crank arm, and demons begin to […]
Sat Sept 28 – The Shanghai Welcome! Joshua’s way of welcoming u to Shanghai is.. ‘Come try out this bike!’ Thanks to JoyRider, Selina Boey who is based in Shanghai, she kindly loan me her cyclocross while Joshua helped me get the mountain bike shoes and new cleats. After much effort and failed terribly to clip in, we changed […]
Well, yesterday I completed the 2013 TTSH Charity Ride in comfortable timing. Last year I joined the event without ever having done any hills in any of my weekend cycling and didn’t even know what KOM meant. However, I did persevere to finish absolute last in 9 hours, pulling the sweeper car, van, bus & […]
FRIDAY, July 19     It was still very dark early Friday morning when black-clad silhouettes silently started to show up outside a condo on Newton road. Not a word was spoken as the figures in black shirts quietly assembled. No, this was not a group of ninja assassins gathering for an assault. Closer inspection of […]