The Zoo Route

Went on a short bike ride over the weekend with adi. We usually ride along the east coast park that takes us behind the airport. Though it is a good route and I like it much, we decided we need some change to out routine. I looked through the local map sites but they were pretty bad to figure out ones way around. As far as I knew, Google maps did not have a comprehensive list of local streets - but I decided to give it a try to figure out a new route (figured that if I can find a few main streets, I can guess my way around). It was a shocker to find that as almost all of Singapore's street data is now live on Google maps.

I looked through and mapped out the following route.

It takes me along geylang, aljuned, braddel, upper thomson and over to mandai road. Simple to remember. An added bonus was that I discovered a detour (Old Upp Thomson Road) that takes me along forested traffic free area and close to the Lower pierce reservoir.Once mapped out we started off on the 30 km (one way) route and kept up a very slow pace (around 20 kmph) partly due to traffic and partly because we wanted to enjoy the ride. The weather behaved great and the detour along Old Upp Thomson was really neat.

It was a steady climb while heading up and hence during the return, we kept up a really good speed. If not for the traffic lights, we would have managed a 30 kmph on the return leg.

Remain tuned for more routes and stories.

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