Southeast Asia’s first biking life-style pageant PEDALFEST SINGAPORE 2023 guarantees to have one thing for everybody with two days of well being and movie screenings, bike artwork performances and upcycling workshops, talks and clinics, spin challenges and free rides and extra.
Bike-Movies Screenings
Among the many motion pictures that will likely be screened at PEDALFEST is Aunt Lotus & Her Dream Bicycle a Mandarin and Teochew language brief movie starring native veteran theatre practitioner Jalyn Han. In it, Han performs a blind grandma who desires of driving a bicycle once more. The brief movie made its world premiere at 2022 Cultural Extravaganza final June and now biking lovers will get an opportunity to take pleasure in this native movie at PEDALFEST.
One other bike-film to look out for is MAMIL (Center Age Males in Lycra) – a documentary about whitecollar professionals who rework into lycra-clad weekend road-warriors and is narrated by legendary Tour de France and biking commentator Phil Liggett.
BMX Artwork Efficiency
One other spotlight of PEDALFEST is a BMX Artwork dwell efficiency by Azmi Hussin, a well-known cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and muralist from Penang, Malaysia. The previous BMX flatland elite rider-turned-artist will try to attract the enduring Singapore Sports activities Hub utilizing his BMX.
Upcycling Bike Artwork Workshop
Azmi – who as soon as drew a record-breaking 320 caricatures in 24 hours – can even be drawing caricatures for a fortunate few.
For cyclists who’ve the creative aptitude in them, there can even be Upcycling Workshops the place you possibly can reuse outdated bicycle rims and elements to create your very personal Bicycle Lamp Artwork piece.
Tales by Biking Heroes
Along with Azmi, Grace Younger (three-time Sports activities Lady of the Yr who now devotes her time to cycling-related fundraisers for Ambulance Want Basis), former nationwide bike owner Mohd Tohar Hairi (winner of three bronze medals at 1973 SEAP Video games) and 81-year-old Ravi Ramachandran (former Director of Nationwide Library and one among Singapore’s oldest cyclists) will share their cycling-related tales and provide gems of recommendation.
Children Underneath 12 take pleasure in FREE Admission
Admission to PEDALFEST for these beneath 12 is free. Youngsters aged 6 or older can study extra about highway security by means of onsite Protected Biking Academy clinics or take pleasure in free demo rides on trishaws supplied by non-profit organisation Biking With out Age.
For the adults, there can even be free health-checks onsite by Bethesda Medical.
FREE Workshops and Clinics
Singapore Biking Federation can be providing a Biking eSport Expertise for these 14 to 40 years outdated; whereas the youthful ones from 6 to 13 years outdated can benefit from the 30min Children Abilities Session held six instances a day.
These eager to get into multi-sport or get their children enthusiastic about biking and operating can attend Ask Me Something (AMA) classes with James Middleditch (Secretary Common of Triathlon Singapore and father to age- groupers Emma and Louisa) or join Run-Bike-Run workshops carried out by Triathlon Singapore over the 2 days.
Cyclists of SG
These in search of some velocity can join CycleFightClub – a every day eCycling match – the place riders compete one-on-one utilizing sensible trainers. The winner will convey house $500 money and earn themselves an abroad biking journey.
Former native champions and bike collectors will collect at Ciclo e Caffe Group Nook to have a look at retro and classic bikes and there can even be a PEDALFEST Bicycle Photograph Sales space to seize all pageant goers of their biking apparel over the weekend. The photographs – along with future photographs of native cyclists taken everywhere in the island – will likely be compiled right into a espresso e book to be launched at PEDALFEST 2024.
Festive Cross comes with a Goodie Bag, Half Proceeds to Charity
A one-day on-site move to PEDALFEST prices simply $38 and it comes with a complimentary pageant bag that features a PEDALFEST tee, bike equipment and different goodies value over $50. First 500 move holders every day can even take pleasure in a cup of artisanal espresso.
Tickets at the moment are on sale right here and a part of the proceeds from PEDALFEST will likely be donated to Biking With out Age, a corporation that empowers seniors to steer purposeful lives.
FREE 3 months trial of SoftBikes
The primary 200 ticketholders to register with the promo code ‘FreeMobility’ can even get to convey house SoftBikes – a revolutionary bike that eliminates higher physique stiffness by means of the repeated actions of the legs and palms through the use of push and pull motions – for a 3 months’ trial.
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