Marikina Bike Clinic at the Riverbanks Center

Marikina Bikeways Office Bike Clinic
Basic Bike Maintenance, Bike Commuting, Flat Repair and more…

Marikina Riverbanks Center
January 14, 21, 28 & February 4, 2012
8:00 AM to 10:00 AM at the Amphitheater

Free Admission

For kids 10 yrs old & above
Adults – no age limit, male and female

Interested parties may register at the Customer Service Counter of the Riverbanks Center or at the Bikeways Office of Marikina City.

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14th Tour of the Fireflies 2012

Bike Event to Save, Heal, Restore the Marikina Watershed – Dec 11

 

 

6th Firefly Brigade Christmas Gift-giving Ride – Dec. 17

Each year for the past five years, we don our santa claus and fairy costumes to go around Metro Manila to give out lootbags to kariton families and roadside public servants along our usual bike commute routes to school, work or errands.

Be a part of this annual yuletide CMR… no registration fees to be collected.

December 17, Saturday
Registration: 3.00-3.30pm Meet, Mingle, be Merry!
Assembly/Briefing: 3.45
Ride Out: 4.00pm
Lootbag-giving: 4.00-6.30pm
ETA: FB HQ 7pm

Requirements for joining the ride:
1) A happy yuletide disposition and willingness and physical capacity to carry at least 2 lootbags in your own backpack for the duration of the ride

*In case of back problems, you can be our candy man or woman… carry candies for giving away to kids, street families, traffic enforcers, takatak boys/girls and bystanders.

2) Contribute two lootbags (more if you like!) for the ride

3) Wear a Xmas Costume or have a deck your bicycle with xmas bling!

4) If under 18 years of age, must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

5) Must have blinkers, wear a helmet (if not wearing a santa hat),

6) Enough water and ride trail mix for energy:)

Suggested Contents of Loot Pack:
Option A
2kgs rice
2 Sachets of sardines or corned beef or any ulam in sachets
3 mami noodles
1 pack candies

Option B
Tasty Bread
2 Sachets of sardines or corned beef or any ulam in sachets
3 mami noodles
1 pack candies

Optional additionals:
facetowel, new/pre-owned good condition clothing, slippers
crackers, blanket

You may also donate in bulk any of the following, we’ll pack it for you!
Cash
Rice Packs
Rice Cavans
In Sachet Goods (sardines or corned beef or ulam)
Candies
Mami
Pre-owned bags or shirts big enough for wrapping loot in

Food for After-ride Xmas Dinner for Volunteers also welcome.

We will accept goods at Firefly Brigade‘s Headquarters:
169 Kamias Road near corner Langka St., Kamias, QC
from December 10-15, Drop-off times are from 1-6pm only.
You may also come early on ride day to help pack last minute donations

A Short Fun Night Urban Night Ride November 26

A short fun night urban night ride. November 26, 4-8pm

Firefly Lighting Ride around SM MOA

4-6pm Assembly: 4.00pm SM MOA Firefly Lighting Xmas Tree area (near the Police Station) where we have been invited to the pre-lighting activities of the Firefly Lighting Christmas Ride.

Free shirts for 1st 100 riders, 4-430pm sign-up.

Ride around SM MOA at 4.30-5.30pm

Pace: 10-15kph about 3-5 rounds around SM MOA…

Huwag Mainip… magride din tayo sa labas at 6pm or kung gustong hintayin ang Xmas tree lighting, puede din!

Firefly Urban Night Ride Outside SM MOA

6.00pm-8.00pm Ride out to Manila and where our wings will take us! We’re dropping by Manila Doctor’s Hospital for representatives to bring up a banner to Carmela Yap. KKB dinner together sa end of ride (shwarma alley sa malate or sa binondo) Beyond SM MOA: 10-15kms

Requirement: 1)No helmet, No Ride! (unless you are wearing a Santa Hat …only within the SM MOA area) 2)A fun, happy disposition and a love of night riding

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UPFI Film Center this week : Nov 14 – 19

Cine Adarna :
ANG BABAE SA SEPTIC TANK
Nov 16 Wed – 18 Fri / 5 & 7pm
Official Philippine Entry to next year’s Oscars
Entrance fee : Php 100
no ticket reservation or advance selling . Tickets will be sold on the day of the screening.

FIREFLY BRIGADE
Nov 19 Sat / 1 – 7pm
Clean Air Month : Bicycle Forum and Film Showing
FREE ADMISSION

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
(schedule of screening to be announced)
Screening for the Centennial of Gaston Leroux’s novel made into film
by Italian master DARIO ARGENTO
Entrance fee : Php 100

Videotheque:
ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2011
Nov 15 Tue – 19 Sat / 230, 430 & 630pm
presented by The Embassy of the Republic of Italy
FREE ADMISSION
Habemus Papam (2011) + Other Contemporary Films
Homage to Bernardo Bertolucci
Homage to Dario Argento

Ishmael Bernal Gallery :
Nov 14 Mon – Dec 12 Mon
HERMANN NITSCH : Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries
ROBERT LANGENEGGER : Emotional Intelligence
MARIA TANIGUCHI : Burnt to Burned
FREE ADMISSION

Bike Forest Bike

A Partnership Fun Ride to highlight the International Year of the Forest, the 2nd Annual Science Film Festival and Clean Air Month.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Organizers:
Goethe Institute
French Embassy
European Union
The Science Film Festival Committee

Partners:
Marikina Bikeways Office
Firefly Brigade
SM City Marikina

Pace: 10-15km per hour
Length: 20kms
Special Feature: Outdoor Film-showing on Forests

Program Flow:
7.00am Assembly, Marikina City Hall
7.30am Opening Program
Welcome by SFF Organizers – Significance of Forests and Bicycles
Ride Briefing by Firefly Brigade
7.45-9.00am Ride Out
9.00-9.30am Closing Program, SM City Marikina
Welcome by Marikina City Administrator Victoriano Sabiniano
-talk about watershed management efforts/IYF efforts

Response of SFF Organizers (Goethe, Europenean Union)
and Introduction to Film-showing
Firefly Brigade Closing

This activity also supports the National Greening Program

Bike Quotes IX – Steve Jobs

“I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.”

“And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs and the Bicycle

I just read an article which said that Steve Jobs, for some time, considered calling the Mac “the bicycle”, and that the Ipad and Iphone’s developer thought of computers as “bicycle for the mind.” I have never read the words “bicycle” and “computer” written together in one sentence and I just couldn’t believe that Jobs had a great appreciation of what bicycles can do. A bicycle, even the latest ones today, is to what computers were in the early days. A bike is a slow human-powered machine but it gets you where you need to go even if you don’t have any money in your pocket. The Mac and other digital products that Jobs created is anything but slow and it gets your work done. We can only compare bikes and computers in terms of efficiency and getting the job done but it is all that matters after all. The bicycle’s mechanisms have been described as the most efficient means of transforming human energy to kinetic energy and it is one of the most useful of all inventions. The computer on the other hand, revolutionized almost all of our endeavors, from human reproduction to space travel, and from saving lives in the operating room to pinpointing and destroying enemy encampments by means of smart, computer guided rockets.

Bicycles and computers can do things for each other.  Bikes can be used to run generators that can charge the batteries that power computers.  Computers can be used to design more new bike configurations that can harness human pedal power more efficiently.   Bikes can bring people where no motorized transport can go; computers can enlighten our minds and bring to us the places where we can’t go physically.

If this is a tribute to Jobs, then perhaps it is already too late.  But for me, Jobs has paid a tribute to bicycles with the products that he has given to the world, and this is a great deal for me.  I may not be using a Mac for my work and for this blog, and up to now, I have never owned an Iphone or an Ipad, and maybe I will never have one because the truth is, I can hardly afford one.  But I just like to put in my two cents worth of opinion regarding Jobs.  Enjoy bicycling!

Drink and Bike – Are You Sober Enough to Ride Your Bike?

I don’t drink to be drunk, and I definitely will not ride my bike if ever I feel drunk at all. I have seen a drunk a cyclist almost got hit by a car in an intersection and I shudder to think what I could have witnessed if the car driver didn’t stop on time.
Will you drink and ride your bike?