Trans-Canada Trail on Bicycle

This sunny afternoon, I took my Diamondback Sorrento mountain bike to test on the Trans-Canada Trail, a dirt road of mostly gravels and sand on its surface. The connecting paths leading to the trail were almost all paved NCC bike paths though, and only a small portion of street paths.

With mostly light breeze, I achieved the following one-way performance data:

Trip distance: 14.53 km
Moving time: 45 minutes
Moving avg speed: 19.2 km/h
Max speed: 31.3 km/h

Since there were no steep downhill slopes, my max speed was about 6 km/h slower than yesterday's. But the dirt road trail was probably a stretch of a 20-minute ride at a slower pace. Still a slow-poke on bike, no doubt :)

So long for now...

Biking in the Summer

Since the beginning of this month, I have been doing some biking at least once a week to work on my blue Diamondback Sorrento. It is actually an 18-inch frame, 21-speed, mountain bike with 26-inch wheels. I had bought it used recently.


Just yesterday, I decided to carry a hiking GPS, which I attached to my backpack to gauge my biking performance (I carried a backpack since I didn't have an on-bike side pouches installed like most bike commuters do).

So, with the usual light headwind, here are my slow-poke performance data for a one-way trip on a mixed street and trail pathway ;)

Trip distance: 16.56 km
Moving time: 50 min
Moving avg speed: 20.1 km/h
Max speed: 37.1 km/h

Surprisingly, I had probably achieved the 37 km/h max speed running down a short stretch of the steep hilly slope somewhere along the pathway (some places have posted speed limit signs of 20 km/h though). Nevertheless, there are still several bikers on their speed and road bikes passing me with ease.

Will see if I will improve on my slow-poke performance by summer's end.

Financial Doomsday is approaching!

Get rid of all your debts asap! A financial Doomsday is approaching! Invest all your liquid assets securely into interest based assets! Why? Inflation is on the rise very rapidly, and so are interest rates. Food prices are on the rise sharply, and gas prices are ever increasing too. Rates will probably rise up to 10% or more in less than 5 years. Also, depending on global conditions, it could come as early as within 3 years, because global economies these days are tied very closely together.

Economic conditions are similar to the inflation and high interest rates from 35 to 40 years ago, when rates were 12% in Canada! Commodities like precious metals and rare earth metals will be good investment too, i.e. buy low now, sell high later (although most of these commodities are already at high prices now). Buy low on your shares now, and sell high later... Indeed, I am sounding like a stockbroker on Wall Street!