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She's been hooked with bicycle since childhood...

Photo: Doc. of KJS

For Linda Susanti, cycling seems like an addictive, because she can relieve her stress or thought by cycling. Bicycle, said this single female, is like a meditation to reach peace of mind.

"I feel happy when cycling," she said, when visited TNOL news room on Friday, October 14, 2011. 

Currently, she has two bikes are always used for her everywhere she goes, whether close or distant. A friend's house, shopping to the store, or go to work, she always cycling. Dahon Vitesse P8, and Polygon F100 are the two bikes that are always faithful accompanied her.

Every day, when she went to the office and went home, female who served as Project Manager in the company's power supply vendor company also is always ride a bike. Usually, she departed from her house in Bintaro, to her office in the Radio In South Jakarta, around 08.00 pm.

Distance from home to office around 8 Km. So, the commute distance she used to travel on weekdays is 16 Km. Meanwhile, if the day off, she is always cycling from home to the Roundabout HI, with the route Bintaro - Radio In - Senayan to HI Roundabout.

Therefore, based on GPS Tracker, Endomondo, she currently occupies the first position as an Indonesian woman who is always consistent in cycling. She joined the endomondo.com community since April 2011. When visiting TNOL, with her friends in KJS, The GPS Tracker shows she has reached a distance of more than 2,500 miles.

Linda admits, she started cycling to office since the office was on the move, from Pulogadung in East Jakarta to Pejompongan in Central Jakarta, in 2009.

And then, she had to travel a distance of 14 km, so she traveled back and forth as far as 28 km. And, when her office moved again to Radio In South Jakarta, the female holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering of University of Trisakti, she becames more and more excited to cycling.

Linda began to familiar with bicycle when she was 6 years old. At that time, she lived in his hometown of Dumai, Riau. At that time, the girl who was born on 15 November 1984 always cycled to school, because bicycle was the primary means of transportation, and there was no public transportation available to take her to school.

Being Hit-Run Victim

The eldest of three siblings also had experienced the fate of less fortunate. She became a victim of hit and run by another vehicle when cycled along the Pondok Pinang, South Jakarta. As a result, she fell down so that she suffered bruises.

Experiencing the incident, it did not make her give up for cycling. Instead she regarded as the dynamics of cycling on the streets filled with a variety of vehicles. "I will keep cycling as long as I'm healthy," she said.

During cycling in the surrounding Jakarta, the farthest distance ever gone through is Ciawi, Bogor, West Java. But in November 2011, the plan he will be cycling to Anyer, Serang, Banten, in commemoration of the first anniversary of KJS.

According to Linda, so that people increasingly happy to cycling, should be available facilities and infrastructure is good, especially the special parking area for bicycles, and toilets for the cyclists - for a place to change clothes and clean the body. Because today there are many offices that have not been providing the facilities and infrastructure.