PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

AMI AS I WAS

It was on one sunny day where this teenage boy discussing with his friends of what he want to be. Being an ordinary boy without knowing a colour tv before the age of 12 is really a blessing. Hardship to earn money is the only word to have it. Either it is used to buy a pack of sweet or a spare part of the bicycle; one has to work for it.

AH BAK AND COFFEE BEAN

Grandma has always taught me about hardship. Plucking a coffee bean, sell it to the middle man Ah Bak and there is a reward. The ratio one-third is mine and two-third is for grandma. Ah Bak always in his daily routine with his C90 Honda bike.

MY FRIEND SABARUDDIN

Sabaruddin is very creative with a lot of things. He taught me to modify my bicycle into really a look a like of TS100 Suzuki scrambler. A simple modification of front fork has really caused me an hour of nagging from my mum. The full conversion of the 16 inches bicycle takes 2 months to complete. An upgrading took a process in phases.

MY BICYCLE HAS BORN

Firstly I have to find my auntie’s bicycle which was hung at the back wall of our washroom. Dismantle it and straighten the front fork by using an intact hardwood beam underneath of the house. Forced by pulling the fork downward, refine it by knocking with hammer and there it is straight.

That is the first phase conversion. I have made several modification by changing the handle bar to a scrambler look a like, colour by mean of put in new coat to the bicycle, an extension to front fork, trimming the mud guard and put in a fender to have a number at both sides.