Welcome to Singapore Bike Hash - the World's First
Details of your next ride are given below. Please follow the links to get accurate map information for the ride assembly point. Hope you enjoy the ride!
Ride #399 - Blood on a Downhill Ride...
| Day/Date: | Sunday, 01 August 2010 |
| Assemble: | 9:40 am |
| Ride Starts: | 10:00 am Sharp! |
| Location: | End of Old Choa Chu Kang Road (close to the National Shooting Centre). Parking on the last road left, Cemetery South St.16. |
| Map Ref: | SG Maps Here Google Maps Here |
| Hares: | Machine, G String, TI Joe. |
| OnOn: | Farmart Centre, 67 Sungei Tengah Rd. |
Remember: For every ride HELMETS and STOUT SHOES are COMPULSORY.
Hares - Please "Sweep" your rides.
All riders ensure you have a spare inner tube, repair kit and pump. If you borrow – Replace!!
Guidelines when setting a run/ride in Singapore’s Nature Reserves and Parks
- Hares must give at least 5 weeks notice to the GM’s if intending to set a run in a Nature Reserve as applications must be submitted to Nparks 4 weeks in advance. An editable pdf form for the Central Catchment Nature Reserve is available here, and for the Bukit Timah, Hinhede National Park and Dairy Farm Nature Park here.
- The GM is responsible for notifying National Parks of an intended run in their Reserves at least 4 weeks in advance. Individual members are not to have contact with National Parks.
- Only toilet paper is allowed at the Nature Reserves. Flour and chalk are not to be used under any circumstances.
- Paper should be laid conservatively and inconspicuously to the general public.
- Hares are responsible for clearing up the paper by the next day or the sweeper is to clear up the trail (this is to be done irrespective of where the run is laid).
- Stick to the existing tracks (i.e. those clearly marked by the Nparks) if you are laying runs in the Nature Reserves.
- Strictly NO CHOPPING of plants in the Nature Reserves.
- No Creating or cutting a new path in the Nature Reserves.
- No arrows to be drawn on the roads or anywhere else in the Nature Reserves.
- Hares are accountable for their runs and if in the event a fine is imposed, the hares will have to bear the cost. These fines are significant (up to $500). Repeat offences will lead to even heavier fines and result in that Hash Chapter being banned from running/riding in Nature Reserves for 6 months.
- Outside the Nature Reserves use flour only on the ground and not on tree trunks.
- Labrador Park, Sungei Buloh, Kent Ridge Park and Mount Faber are also managed by the Nparks, so be mindful when setting runs/rides there.
- Click on the links to get maps of the Macritchie Nature Trails, the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve & Designated Tracks within the Central Nature Reserves.
Nparks now have a contact for each Hash Chapter in Singapore (in most cases the GM) and will call up any chapter that breaches any of these rules and will ban the Chapter till the matter is resolved. A warning will also be issued to the Chapter. A fine will be imposed if a second breach is committed. The hares will have to bear the cost of the fine.
What does the above mean to the Singapore Bike Hash?
- Hares will need to think even more carefully about their run sites and trails.
- Hares will need to plan their run well in advance.
- Sweepers will become increasingly important – for making sure all runners/riders return safely and for picking up the paper.
- Late comers to a run may find that there is no trail left to follow as the sweeper will have picked it up.
- There is a need to consider alternative markings for the runs that can be easily removed.
- e.g. ice cream sticks, or plastic markers. This is currently being looked at.
- As a measure of goodwill and community service, we will hold a cleaning campaign in one of the Reserves or Parks at some stage during the year.
These guidelines have been agreed on by all Hash Chapters in Singapore in consultation with National Parks. We will keep you updated on any changes. Thanks for your understanding!
Adapted from the LCH3 rules for hashing in National Parks document issued June 2010 and in line with general consensus of all Singapore Hash clubs.
Here is a link to the Parks and Trees Act mentioned in the application forms.
Two Wheel Action
Block 354, Clementi Avenue 2, #01-183, Singapore 120354.
The Shop faces Clementi Road, set back from the Courtyard. If you are DRIVING, take the FIRST entry from Clementi Road, along Clementi Avenue 2, beside Block 350. Follow the driveway to the right around to the back of Block 354. Plenty of Parking. See our website. Our top technician will be on hand for sales and minor servicing.
