Ride Report Sg Pusu / Kemensah 9th JUNE 2012

Sungai Pusu  / Kemensah Ride Report.

  Ride was good to go this time around. Unlike the last trip which was a wash out and we ended up riding Sofea Jane instead. Meet up was scheduled at 0730hours at Shell Station beside the main road heading towards Genting. Farmer Danny and The Korean was collected from Melawati after planting their cars their to ferry the drivers back to their car at the end of the ride.
   Usual suspect showed up. Counted 14 hikers in total. Yellow Manta was a no show. Seems he had to clean up his aquarium or something. Hot coffee chugged down. Lotsa MacDonald's was taken in. More coffee and more Hash Browns packed for the trail later. Waited for one dude to discharge his own version of Hash Brown.
   Off we went headed towards the trail head in Sungai Pusu. Start a point was decided at the community hall. The whip was passed to Zach for this week's ride with Adrian Chan steering the loose end.

Ride Briefing

  Ride briefing done by Whipmaster. Total expected distance 25kms of hills and more hills. Trail condition expected to be wet and mugly. Weather looks good. slight overcast with specks of rain. 2 kenduri's spotted.
    Been quite awhile since the old clowns have done a long ride like this so much was expected for the ride. All 14 hikers was excited and looked forward to having a good weekend taking their expensive bikes out for a walk.

Dot warming up for the ride

   Which turn out to be much more fun than expected. Total final count was 5 river crossing. 6 leeches on the average for EACH hiker. 2 food break. 3 little hills to walk up. 1 Flat tire. More leeches. Had a few Japanese breaks. ( Interpret as photo sessions )  1 out of shape Rear Derailleur. Lotsa of mud. Plenty of wheezing hikers. Quick lessons in how to swear in Hokkien , Cantonese and Portugese. Group discussions on the different types of mud. More swearing. Trying to do division of 4 Nasi Lemak for 14 starving hikers. Logic and sharp elbows prevailed in the end. 10 hiker had to settle for buns and laksa. Multiple swearing in unison.

Choi!! warming up his abs for the ride

   All in all, this was a superb hiking weekend. We should invite more hikers for this the next time around. Thanks to the week's whip master Zach for not getting us lost in the trail. And not forgetting Adrian Chan for  sweeping the rest of the senior citizens up the trail.
   Below is a ride report courtesy of our visiting hiker Victor.





Victor's Ride Report:-

Any idea why Victor is glowing?

 Blogmaster asked me to write about our last riding mess around Sg Pusu and Kemensah.  I am sorry guys, I really cannot write.  He also told me: - remember no politics, no religion, no race stuff, no sex, no swearing and no porno.  What shall I do, then?  Like that, it is so hard to say something about the fucking ride.

   I understand that with the amendments to printing presses and publications act Patrick can go to jail if I say, for example: I love communism.  I don't want my riding mate to go to jail, just because he is not Portuguese, or because he likes to eat duck and listening to the Wigles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBWQCHb95rg&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9DOc0Jn6sL2w7caKajr5Nx0

  Sorry, I forgot about the ride.  

   Google said it is just 10.3km and should take only 17min.  Well, that's a proof that you cannot trust Google, or the Government.  It was over 16km and more than 360min.  Not only had our visas expired, jeopardizing any future rides, but all the hell happened out there: we had to push up and to push down, cross the same river more times than corruption cases in Malaysia, meet unhappy hornets and wasps, give our blood to leeches like we give to the tax men when we buy a beer, get mud all over the body and the bike and still be parted from the bikes for an extra car ride.  

Butt Exercise in session

   We were lucky though; we didn't find any Perkasa people and were not beaten by the police.  After reaching home, I had a very long nap before dinner.  I was thinking that how much nicer were parts of the trail some 5+ years back and how could we recover it, considering the motorbikes and the shadow of development.  With a mini-excavator and little cash that could be done, but who could take charge?  Najib or Khir?  

   

Dot helping to do repairs on the trail

Thank you people for giving me the rare opportunity of participating in this hard ride.  I hope I didn’t forget to mention anyone.  We are ready for more.  Are you voting next election?