Doug “Davy Crockett” Haughton Ride ( 11/11/2009)

Today destination: Sg Ara Carpet via Rubber trees route (normal)

Next Destination: Whistler Mountain Bike Park
As part of his MTB world tour to prep for the next Red Bull challenge, this is Doug “Davy Crockett” final stop before his final gig in Whistler Mountain.  He wanted the best trail, and he got it….Carpet.  Less talk more action! Here it goes…

Doug and Sufian with their black steeds… “gaya mesti ada”.

Doug gives thumbs up, but Yazid still unsure if Sufian brought Doug because he “likes” Doug

“King of the Wild Frontiers”, Sg Ara version and Portland version.

Yazid give a tour of his Orchard, “..over there is 100 yr old durian tree…”

King of Chain in action, now we know how he trashed all those chain… the earth shakes when he crank!

Doug “ Davy Crockett” Haughton, the frontiersman, the first ever American to venture into the Sg Ara Carpet trail. Well done buddy!

Sufian in Putra Jaya's PCP MTB ( 8th Nov 2009 )

Sufian exploring the MTB activity in KL.

Almost there .. Almost thereeeeeeeeeeeeee !

Wow....One more to go ... to go.... 

Sufian is behind the bush…...

Group photo.

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Was it a GertakSanggul or Balik Pulau ride

Prelude to Saturday's ride, as usual E-mails were flying around with riders asking what is the route for this Saturday. Various suggestion with some say; Gertak Sanggul,some say Kapet to Balik Pulau and some even with confusing headings for the ride on Sunday but the discussion is about the Saturday's ride!
Anyway the guys agreed to meet at Dinas at 7.30am to decide on the route, when I reached Dinas saw Azydee having teh tarik with half boiled egg and I join him for breakfast then the others started to join us. Waited for Yazid who was late as he need to attend to nature's call at the very last minute. I guess we had a total of 12riders this morning and we still could not agree on the route! Malik suggested "why not we try the bridge route to kapet" and all agreed to that, not that we knew what we are getting into but agreed nonetheless. We followed Malik on this route and as the path was wet and slippery for some of us and as usual the A team broke away from the rest with the B, C and the D team lagging behind. We did a lot of pushing along the way giving various excuses i.e the tires were spinning, someone ahead of us stopped abruptly or the path was wet so we wanted to be careful. The route was challenging but pleasant with shadowing trees along the way. When I reached Kapet, the A team was engaged in a discussion with Arthur mesmerising the audience with his oratory skill. The rest of us joined and we posed for photo session with lot of battle of words and wits with Arthur poking fun on my disappearing act during CM' ride to our performance in the BM Jamboree and even KW on his lateness to kapet not knowing that KW double back to accompany his friend.While bragging about our achievement Yazid mentioned that one of the rides amongst us was positioned # 14 and with that there was a grave silence. We knew its time for us to keep quiet!
Arthur, Idris and Malik parted way as they need to head back home early as the rest decided to go down to Balik Pulau. The ride was slow due to wet cement path and the mud path which made some of our bikes to skid, nevertheless it was a good ride till Rapid Bustop with some downhill heroes making a breakaways from the rest of the pack on the mainroad.After breakfast, KW wanted to go to Gertak Sanggul and he tried to entice others to join in but no one was willing as I guess all of us wanted to head home citing various reasons. We decided to take Pondok Upeh road towards Teluk Kumbar and Bayan Lepas. The downhill ride was fantastic with all of us racing each other but we had one clear winner; Azydee. This guy is the ultimate downhill champion in the absence of Sufian leading the pack with KW, PT , KL and Chuen Hau. Finally we reached Sg Ara-Bayan Lepas junction and headed home,it was good ride for all of us except for KW who missed his Gertak Sanggul route, no worries pal we'll do it after our Kulim Jamboree provide we do the road early morning and off road later as the the daylight nowadays is much earlier now as the transition of the sun from north to south!As Sufian will always say "panas" to which I fully agree as I am the least among you guys who needs more tan! See you guys next week at the Kayuhan Klasik Kulim...yahooooooo!

31st Oct 09 Ride

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