“Earth Hour” Night Ride地球一小时 夜骑活动

Kasia and her bike ↑

When we were on the ferry, the lights on the skyscrapers were switched off at 8:30 sharp.

Can’t see the needle (Pearl Tower) now! ↓

If you’ve been visiting CityBikr often, you would probably noticed Scott and his bike ↓ couple of times before:1, 2

Kasia 和她的车 ↑

刚上黄浦江摆渡船,正好8:30,陆家嘴大部分高楼都熄掉了外部景观灯。

连东方明珠的针尖都看不到了 ↓

Scott和他的田园风格车(后篮很有爱吧?),之前也有出现过哦,看你仔细不: 1, 2

Not Just Another Night Ride不仅仅又是一次夜骑

Although extremely tired having slept for only 5 hours in the morning (aftermath of a long night’s work), I was really excited and happy to join the Factory Five friends for another night cruise to The Bund. It was also a long-awaited reunion with our very own experienced Chinese biker group (with a potential new girl biker joining!). Check out how awesome our 20 bikes look put together ↓ when we stopped to have some drinks.

Karl’s Tigger saddle ↓

There was an interesting interlude (for me it’s one of those moments that worth taking my big, stupid camera out). After coming out of the tunnel, one of our bikes got punctured. No worries, our distinguished attendant service team immediately took care of it.

虽然由于头晚通宵加班,我还是兴奋地去地参加了周二Factory Five的外滩夜骑。这次也是和我们精通老练的中国骑手们期待已久的一次重聚,而且马上还有新女骑手加入呢。

骑到外滩停下来休息时,把20辆车都排到了一起。最外面的还是Jeff那辆浪漫的的双人车。

大师Karl的跳跳虎坐垫↓ 萌不萌?

这次夜骑有一个有意思的小插曲(“有意思”对我来说就是那种值得把我笨重的照相机拿出包来用的时刻)。骑出隧道不久,有辆车爆胎了。没关系,我们精良的F5服务团队马上就解决了问题。

Factory Five & My First Night Ride

Just came back from my first night ride with the gang. Met lots of interesting people.

Finally took a pic for Tyler. And that’s 48×15 Vol. 2 he’s holding.

And I just had to get some biking spirit for myself…

↑ Laura, writer and journalist from Germany. That’s a new built she just got today.(What a beautiful bike!) She took the last pic of me and Tyler.

Inside Factory 5 ↓:

That’s Perry from Hongkong on the right.

And finally met Jeff. (with a huge flash)

Lewis from Scotland with his Factory 5 built.

Waiting at the gate to hit the road.

Night ride starts!

And guess what, we’ve got a tricycle (rickshaw?) ↑ and a tandem bike ↓

We biked pretty far (probably NOT so for many). I was almost exhausted from the pedalling a few times on the way because my non-fixie bike has small wheels and gears. But thanks to the timely stops in between, I made it all the way 🙂

And finally, Karta with the bamboo bike. [AgotoB.com] Let’s bring the bike culture back to China!

Location of Facotry Five: Jiangsu lu 876, near Huashan Lu

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