“What time are you finished riding with Fashung?  Are you available for a ride at 7 AM?” was the call after I’d gone to bed Tuesday night.  “They want riders to make a ‘Live’ movie about Trang for TV.”  “Sure, I’ll be there” I volunteered.  What I didn’t realize was Trang is having it’s Centennial on April 14th and they want to have 1,000 cyclists come and cycle around Trang, so they are making a “Promo” for TV Channel 22 showing the Trang highlights.

Extras evidently spend a lot of idle time waiting around for the film crew to arrive and then set-up their various cameras, and “shots.” Never-the-less we still got in about 20 km of cycling, sometimes just going round and round a park or monument.

It was fun, and seeing them deploy a camera drone above our group was fascinating.  Curious to see how that footage turns out, however they weren’t showing our riding “live” and don’t plan to broadcast the film until the 8th, one day after we fly home. So we’ll never really know.

Since I couldn’t really photograph my participation in the filming I’ll have to post several photos posted on local Club members’ FaceBook pages.

All told, we were filmed cycling at five attractions within the city limits of Trang. There were 20+ riders on a variety of bikes, most of whom wore one of two Club jerseys. They did feed us twice and it’s wasn’t a box lunch, rather a 5-course family style lunch at a well-known local restaurant.