Philip Viljoen
My blogs
| Location | Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Introduction | Hi, I'm Philip. I've been riding bicycles since I was yaaaay high. Never stopped, never want to stop. My bicycle became a mountainbike, my riding became more serious, up to the point where I realise that I am a mountainbiking geek. The only worse geek is a computer geek. As I'm writing this I am still in my riding gear, with blood on my knee, and wondering when I am going to fix the spoke I broke in my brand new front wheel. You have to realise that I tend to fall a lot. You would think that 10 years of riding experience would teach me how to ride properly. Sadly, I've only learned how to fall properly. In the last couple of years I have experienced some weird stuff on my mountainbike.. I have experienced pain, elation, adrenalin, endorphins, happiness, suffering, saddle sores, seen broken arms, lots of blood, the most awesome views, made best friends, dragged said friends over mountains, ridden down mountains, realised that pain is relative, that pain can be blanked out, that the human body can be pushed way further that we think it can. And finally, I have learned to do all this with a smile, and experience true joy. This is me sharing it with the world. |