For as long as I can remember I have always been fascinated by motorcycles.  I can still remember when I was in 3rd grade that I saw a bicycle that had plastic tanks and shocks
which looked like a small motorcycle. How I wanted that bike !! Although I was probably too ashamed to asked from my mom and dad to buy it for me because I was made to believe in
thriftiness and that bike cost 150 pesos. My first experience with motorcycling was when I was already in 2nd year high school in Silliman, Dumaguete.  My best buddy, Edgardo Europa, had a 125cc motorcycle which in its earlier life, saw action as a motorcab.  It was there that I learned how to ride a bike and using a clutch).  We used to take turns driving with another buddy, Jose Orden.  We would cut classes and go around Dumaguete City.  It was a blast!!  One important thing I learned: Never use the handbrake while turning. After high school, I spent some time in Dipolog waiting to leave for the States on a Rotary Exchange Scholarhip.  I
used my dad’s Honda 70 scooter every single day.  With my friend, Antonino Realiza who owned a small Honda 50 monkey, we would take along 5 friends (3 riding with me and 2 with him) drive to Polanco or Dakak or Guimputlan over the most roughest of roads.  I would go through a full tank of gas in one day. That bike really suffered a lot of abuse but it lasted. After law school, I never really gave any thought to riding a motorbike until I was made a dealer of Norkis Yamaha used bikes from Japan.  I was a bad bike salesman, only sold two bikes, including one which I sold to myself, a white Yamaha WR200 which was too tall for me.  My brother, Mao, a mean trail rider himself, exchanged it with his new KMX125 which suited me just fine.  Together with my DYC brods, we would go test drive all my motorcycles for sale and go trail riding.  Then I met Dodoy Saberon who supplied our group with all the fancy riding gear.  Dodoy would call me up at 3p.m. on any weekday and invite me to do a fast trail ride in the hills of Dicayas.  Together with Dodong Llorente, the three of us would ride until around 7p.m.  In a week we would probably ride 3 or 4 times.  Until Dodoy left for the States. 
 Before Dodoy left for the States however, he conned Enlai Barinaga into buying a 1993 Yamaha YZ125.  When Enlai got fed up with it, he sold it to me and that started my racing career at the age of 35 – a beginner executive rider.  And I thought that that bike would last me at least 3 years.  I am now on my 9th racing bike since that time.  And I have never stopped riding trail or motocross.  It is a way of life.   I have heard of CDR when Lake talked to me about it a few years back.  When Alvin finally bought a bike and joined the group, I was then being updated regularly on all CDR activities.  CDR has always been major sponsor in the Cycles Unlimited Annual Fiesta Motocross race for the past few years.  When I became President of Cycles, I thought of one way of repaying CDR for its generosity and kindness by lugging a suitcase full of wooden hand-carved trophies to Chicago and starting the first Tigbakay race (which I also joined thinking I could outrace all the novice riders in CDR, boy was I wrong. I was eating dust all the way!!).  Anyways, it is an honor for me to be accepted into the CDR family although I am way out here. My bikes: used WR200(sold as junk), used Yamaha Zerow(sold), used Kawasaki KMX125(don’t know where it is but it was the bike Rex Barbaso used to win the 2003 Enduro Rider of the Year Championship), used 93 Yamaha YZ125(sold to dax aves), new 03 Honda CR125(sold to Chris Bengua), new 05 Honda CRF250 (sold in Cebu), used 03 Yamaha YZ125(sold to Basil Gonzales), used 05 KXF250F(sold to Gutsy Bayawa), used 05 Yamaha 250F(sold to Nato Dumaguete), used 07 Yamaha 250F(sold in Bohol), at present: new 09 Yamaha YZ250F, used 07 CR150F, used 08 CR50F.