Gas Prices.... Inflation.. Time to Bike

With the current gas prices (P60/liter), I started thinking of bike commuting to work and being a weekend biker for 4-5 years maybe I can hack it. Monday morning of July 28, I started preping my things and left the house around 7:55 AM. It was a bit late and I expected the traffic to be heavy. As I was starting to leave the comfort and security of Merville, I said to myself "The adventures can now begin!"

Bikers/Bikes in Metro Manila are considered "pond scum" in the streets, we don't get too much respect from the car owners, motorcycle junkies and the public transport drivers. We are mostly neglected and overlooked by pedestrians, who are unconsciously minding their own business by texting while crossing the street. In short, we bikers are very much invisible.......

I noticed that most of the people who bike around the streets are usually the blue collar workers, which I will start to call "constructicons." These are people, with their heavy steel framed bike, who works on a construction site. The constructicons don't wear helmets, gloves and bike shoes to work and I get weird stares from them because I wear protective gear. I felt stupid and weak with all my protective gear on!!!! One constructicon even tried very hard using his old, thin limbs just to overtake me and say "Ganda ng porma, ah. " Which if you translate in English, it means "Nice form!!" but not, I guess he was trying to be sarcastic about it. I just said to myself, "I hope that jeepney in front of you would stop so that you will hit your noggin' so hard that you will shit in your pants and buy a helmet!"