[遊記] 2009大甲媽祖萬人崇Bike 完成

Feb 21st 2009 Sunny Day

This is a diary in memory of my 130KM bike accomplishment.

With my LL Blue and fidgety mood, I went to Tachia. I arrived at station earlier. When I didn’t know what I should do, bro Zen called. He was even earlier than me. Hard to believe, it only spent them 4.5 hrs to Tachia from Singang. Since they rode in 30~50KM/hr, he said he didn’t have time to drink water and talked to me when I called. He was proud of saying that he has caught the row to avoid him from losing face. The reason he was proud is because he rode with the guy who was the second person to climb Everest by bike. He also pointed out secretly to me who was this guy, dressing yellow clothes.

Jetter’s train was arrived. Hundreds of persons and bikes came out of the station. When they were busy to take photos, I was busy to fill my stuff into the seat bag from Jetter and to place the cushion from Ray on my seat. Then, Hua came to me to request photos. It was happy to see her face by face after talking with her in M group for a long time.

Before starting cycling, ZLB persons gathered together. Don distributed the party crackers to several persons and I also got one. After Suwei counted 1.2.3 , everyone who has cracker pulled up to the sky, many colored streamers popped out, which was like a ceremony to announce the activity was starting.

OK…..started cycling…~~!! Poor DAD Hans needed to take care his weak “daughter” when others rode so fast that they were barely seen. Being a DAD is really not easy, especially he has a “daughter” who was the first time to cycle in long distance. He needed to introduce the places along the riding way to her, teach her how to pedal efficiently and how to keep the riding position correctly, tell her how to shift the gears, ride in front of her to fight wind resistance for her, wait for her when she was too tired to move forward, and bear the teasing as the slowest ones arriving the resting points when other ZLB persons have already got there.

Thanks to DAD Hans, I arrived at the destination. When DAD Hans said it was it, I hardly believed I made it, 130KM. When we met Jetter and other ZLB persons in a small and gloomy store, they were eating stinky Tofu. When they saw me and DAD Hans, there was a burst of applause for my record of one-day breaking 100KM. I was surprised but touched. I should have been like the Oscar winners to start to appreciate my parents…etc and then, waved my right hand to those who have clapped their hands for me. But I didn’t. I was too exhausted to say any words.

Since local Singang person bro Zen’s car was not available to drive me to Minsyong station, I went with DAD Hans, Don and Suwei back to Minsyong. In front of station looking three men tear my LL Blue apart, my OS was “ how could it be possible for me to assemble it back?” But it is not important, the first thing I should care was enter the platform to Wurih. Luckily, I was on my bro car in New Wurih station around 9 pm.

Don told me that if he were me, he would never join today biking. I think I chase for the sense of achievement. But who knows it…maybe I just want to prove buying bike is right.

DAD Hans said when persons have more interests in biking, they will buy RBs to pursue for speed after I asked why most of biking friends ride RBs. Speed….!!!...maybe…I ride too slowly to realize the fu. However, I do agree with bro Zen that biking gives us more chances to see the scenery closely and feel the voices around us in detail by comparing with driving cars. After all, the engine noises are annoying.

OK….call it a day…ZZZZzzzz~~


upload a photo to prove I reached the destination with smile.