Two things happened on the 31st Oct, Saturday ride; Yazid broke his bike chain, yes again and I recruited a new member thinking he is bike pusher but he turn out to be a pro! We agreed to assemble at the temple at 7.30am but I need to meet my friends Jaya, who was interested to join us with our rides. I agreed to meet him at Dinas at 7.20am and thought to meet up with the guys later. While I was waiting for him, KW Tan came to Dinas after seeing that no one was at the temple entrance! We left Dinas and met Yazid at the temple entrance and continued the ride. Yazid and KW were leading with me and Jaya following them. The group started to separate as KW was breaking away with Yazid right behind him, Jaya and I lost them just before the rubber trees and there is where I saw Yazid with his bike parked by the side . We found that he broke his chain again, maybe for the 3 or 4th time ever since he started to ride! Yes brothers, he broke his chain again! We quickly got our hands dirty by trying to mend the broken chain, three professionals who knew nothing about repairing a broken chain used our logic and the little repairing knowledge that we had. Lucky for Yazid he brought a compact tool set that came in handy, we tried everything to make it connect but to no avail! Some other rides looking that we are struggling with the broken chain gave us an easy clip on chain connector, which we thought was a blessing in disguise but none of us knew how to use it, including them! We tried every other way to understand how to use it, with everyone giving how it should be done but finally agreed to revert back to the old way to repair the chain.
We were joined in by KW, who came back after reaching the foothill of Kapet wondering why all of the sudden all of us were nowhere at sight! The four of us tried everything to mend the broken chain, with each trying to outdo the other, one by one tried but we were not successful. This is where we dearly missed Suri and Idris!
Surprisingly Ling How, YES the one and only Ling How, who claim that he never rides on Saturday joined us and gave his expert opinion on how to mend the chain. This time around we became bit creative with combining the clip on with the chain and managed to mend the broken chain. Congrats to the team to successfully mending the broken chain for the first time.
We continued the ride after that until reaching Kapet! The second surprise was that Jaya whom I recruited thinking that being a new comer would be pushing the bike like others, but the plan failed miserably as he never pushed the bike but cycled comfortably until reaching kapet. Yes he did finish it on his maiden ride to kapet without pushing. Sorry abang Zul, for recruiting a wrong person into our Bike Pushers Gang thinking that we could have another member! Once we reached kapet we’re debating to turn back or go down to Balik Pulau, we managed to convince all including Ling How to join us to Balik Pulau. While going downhill my back brake jammed which caused my wheels to skid hence I stopped and allowing the others to ride first just not to cause any problems them. It was an interesting ride downhill and upon reaching Balik Pulau, breakfast as usual. After breakfast we continued to ride back via Pondok Upeh, Malihom,Teluk Kumbar and reached Sg Ara close to 12.00noon. Coming down hill was a joy to all of us, with KW gone out of sight as he need to go back home earlier. It was a good ride for all of particularly for Ling How who joined us for the first time I think! As for Jaya, first time ever doing, Kapet, Balik Pulau and Pondok Upeh route, never a bike pusher member have done it on his pioneer ride! Congratulations buddy and hope you’ll join us in more rides in the future and I also managed to convince Jaya and and KW to join us for the Taiping Jamboree in Dec 09!
Ling How, Yazid, KW Tan, and the new kid on the block Jaya
Yazid rantai putus AGAIN!!
But this time, Yazid has the tool!!
But…..don’t know how to use…..
......team posing after repairing yazid's bike...
Commander LH conducting the “Carpet Orientation” to Jaya.
This weekend heroes; Jaya, Yazid, LH, KW, and Kalidas (cameraman)
Many claim to be number 1….. oklah…all of you are number 1