I spent two months in Cebu winter before last. Besides the Bicycle Taxis I saw a few "Guerrilla Bikers" plying the streets. Mostly they looked like men going to and from laborer jobs. Usually on cheap mountain bikes in varied states of repair, outfitted in cut off shorts, T shirts and flipflops with a T shirt covering their heads like a mask to filter out the diesel fumes.

While on our morning walk we saw a white guy climbing up Maria Louisa Road. He didn't speak but was out of the saddle huffing and puffing. Ten minutes later he came coasting back down.

Riding a bike in Cebu City proper looked like a sure way to get hurt. The automobiles, vans and jeepneys do not give way to pedestrians OR bicyclists!