First Ride: Ipo Dam Water Reservoir

It is Bien's blessing at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy

(credits to the owner of the picture.) you can read her blog here at thecurlycook
Located at Sta. Rosa I, Marilao Bulacan

As mentioned on our first blog, Bien is a cfmoto vnight bike. It's been just a month ago when we purchased it. Bien is still in its break in state so we opted to travel near yet made it sure that it will be fun and exciting destination.

We start our day attending mass and feel blessed. And then we proceed to our first ride destination. We choose Ipo Dam as our first. It is near plus I used to go there when I was a highschooler.

On our way up, green scenery amazed us plus we were accompanied by cool breeze bought by the trees on the roadside. We felt like we were travelling Baguio's Kenon road with less cliffs. And the road is smooth making our ride more stable and cool.

We entered Ipo Dam reservoir thru my highschool classmate Rodolfo Pascual, a resident in the vicinity.

Ipo Dam is a restricted area so you won't be able to enter the place without consent. It is located in San Mateo, Norzagaray Bulacan. It siphons the water from the Angat River direct to La Mesa Dam and ends at Balara filtration Plant in Quezon City.

Not that a breath taking view inside the vicinity but it is still a peaceful and fresh scenery to visit once in a while. Green and quiet.

I must commend Bien's backrider part. It was a bit high giving me a perfect view of the scenes and scenery along the way. And also our driver. philipkun is careful and carefree at the same time. He drives safely without killing the fun and excitement. I guess it is because the bike is easy to carry and stable to drive. I like most is the benking benking of the bike on the curbside. Overall it is a nice exciting stable and fun first ride together.

My classmate also suggested us to go to Bitbit river because it is also near the area. Yes! There's more bucolic places here in Bulacan to go to. But unfortunately, it is getting hot and it's passed lunch time already so we decided to go back. Next time we will start our ride earlier.

So I guess this is all for now. We will update and share with you our experiences on our future rides.

The best school is travel. Those who do not travel only see the first part of the book

Before the start of our journey (Bien) CFMoto V-Night 150cc

Hi, im philipkun, member of MCP (motorcyclephilippines.com), and I want to share our traveling experience.

First of all I have a partner, andeng (my gf navigator), and bien(my motorcycle)…

We will try how far bien could travel carrying us.

Before I forgot this is bien,

A CFMoto V-Night 150cc our travel buddy.

Here is a quick review to bien (V-Night)

Technical specs is available in my special friend(google)

and ill add a forum thread regarding this bike

MCP V-Night Thread

Handling: Very good! Stable at high speed at hnd nkakakaba mag benking benking sa twist...i think kaya mag no-hands pero di ko nitry..takot kc ako…

Weight: Good nmn. Mejo mabingat nga sya...lalo na sa trapik...pero pag umaandar nmn ay ok naman at ang gaan dalhin…

Throttle: Good lng muna. Mejo delay lng sya minsan lalo na pag biglaang bibirit and one good thing is malambot syang pigain.

Head Light: Good. Maliwanag naman sya at hnd sabog ung ilaw..pero mejo mataas sya dahil na rin cguro sa weight ko at lumelevel ung head light.

Brake: Very Good! Ok sakin ung brake nya at malakas...Bigla kc may nagfull stop na taxi sa harap ko at nahandle nmn ng brake..

Tire: Very Good...makapit sya..

Horn: Very Good.. malakas nmn ung busina nya..hindi ko lng masyado ginagamit kc natutuwa akong gamitin ung flasher..cool 

Shifting lever is masyado nakatingala...nahihirapan at nadedelay tuloy ako ng kambyo...
Ung side stand nya ay mejo kinakabahan ako..kasi parang mabuway ung motor pag naka side stand..

Features that I like:

• Monoshock
• Flasher
• Gear Indicator
• Bright color of panel (kahit tirik ang araw ay kitang kita mo sya)

Another thing is, mababa ang speedometer reading nya compared sa ibang motorcycle pero hindi nagkakalayo ang reading ng speedo nya at ng GPS. And one more, mahina sya sa arangkadahan pero tyak di ka ipapahiya sa duluhan.

Additional pics.

Soon, we will update this blog and post our experiences through our journey…