By Neil Bravo
BIKE ENTHUSIASTS from Davao converge this Sunday to officially welcome to the city the bike entourage of the “Padyak Tungo Sa Liwanag” pilgrimage.
According to local organizers, interested participants may join the meet-up at the assembly point in NCCC Mall in Maa at 5 o’clock a.m. Ride out is set at 5:30 a.m.
The entourage will then proceed to the meeting point at Barangay Lacson in Calinan.
“We are inviting every bike enthusiast to join us and in a way express our sentiments for a better world,” said Monica Ayala of Cycle for Life, one of the local partners of the Padyak Bike Pilgrimage.
Ayala reminded the participants to follow the basic bike rules like mandatory helmets, water, food provision and zero-waste.
“Through this Salubong, bikers from different cycling groups converge and merge along the routes of “Padyak Tungo Sa Liwanag” bike pilgrimage, this is our way of expressing support to this attempt to popularize the bicycle and the biker as our tools to bring sustainability to the forefront as one of the building blocks for rebuilding a nation in the spirit of bayanihan,” said Ayala.
“This is essentially the heart of the Liwanag World Festival,” she added.
Ayala stressed that “at the Liwanag World Festival, like-minded groups and individuals shall present through booths and exhibits their Sustainable Initiatives, sustainably produced goods and locally available products and innovations, inspiring lectures by local and international invited speakers, how-to workshops, creative presentations by local and domestic Filipino artists come together in the midst of political and economic turmoil and the effects of climate change happening globally.”
