My neighbour invited me to go cycling with him on saturday evening and I gladly obliged as I had not cycled for over a week. And it felt really good to be on two wheels on the road again on our single speed reconditioned Japaneses bikes. Certain things in life should be kept simple and sweet. We cycled to Samajaya Industrial Estate and turned off onto a dirt road as Kian Hui wanted to show me a fishing trawler whose crew had most probably misjudged the tide times as their fishing vessel had keeled over in the shallows. We got there and it was a sorry sight.

There we met two other younger gay looking cyclist on their expensive and fancy looking full-suspension mountain bikes and 'full cycling gear'; who looked as if they were about to keel over as well - that we could make it to the banks of Sungai Kuap on our humble road bikes! We told them that we had even cycled on almost every single track there is in Beliong and even where there were no tracks! Looking at us in disbelief as they had cycled there before; all they could mutter was that it must have been painful riding on rough tracks on bikes without any suspension. Not as painful as thinking how ignorant some people are with their single -tracked mind as to assume that certain things can only be done certain ways with fancy gears, equipment or stuff. Less is sometimes more. Or maybe perhaps we are of tougher stock or just better cyclist! *ahem*