Malakoff Ride 31 and 1st- Useful Tips

Some useful info.

Here is the new information:-
1. All those that register thru Alberto (Oze shop) will have ride numbers from 180 – 270 (there will be a counter for us to check in from the serial #).
a. You still need to check your number from the website (or you check on the notice board on that morning)
2. On the 1st day registration morning, you just need to bring your IC and tell the person at registration counter your ride number and you will get you ride plate numbers.
3. Once ride is finished, please check out at the registration counter and provide your receipt (please collect from Barrack or Albert), to claim your jersey, goodies and cert.

Key message:-
Bring your IC and receipt (collect from Barrack or Albert)

If we collect for ourselves, we do not need to fill up any form. (Only need to bring IC and receipt).

See you guys on 31st Dec, Friday morning. BE THERE EARLY

If you plan to ride for 2 days, day one pls wear 2009 cranky jersey(SS). day 2, pls wear the 2010 jersey(LS)

Boxing day ride Sunday 26th

Meet at oze 7am
Route: juraisic--junjong--cp1 km jamb--km town--tambun.

The ride is specially design for Mark to test ride his new Hei- Hei. Also, for Barrack to perform after a wonderful Xmas eve.

Sunday ride 5th dec﹣gunung jerai

Meet at foothill 730am.

Monthly Long Ride Novt 14th--Taiping Lake

Meeting place: OZE
Departure time: 6.30 am sharp. Pls arrive ~6am
Estimate end time: 1300 to 1330pm

So far, Alberto, Mark, Rocco, Barrack, Hock, Gordon, Moy, Bullet confirmed coming.

Oct 31 Sunday Ride- AID- Iron Cross- Sungai Rusa

Meeting Point: Foothill of Kek Lop Si
Time 7 to 715am

Sunday Ride Sep 26th- Monthly long ride- Beris dam

The ride started off ~645am with 15 rides. After few km ride, there was a minor accident causing Ah Meng twisting his ankle. But nothing stop the redhot heart at that moment. Soon, after 10km ride, few questions started to arise regarding the route surrounding total distance and the altitude. John keep saying flat. So, the pedaling never stop and along the way, we have wonderful uphill and downhill. We passed through the misty area and made everyone feel likes riding in genting highland. Around 815, we arrived at the junction toward Sik. We waited for 15 min and after that we continued cycle toward Sik. We stopped at 55km mark for breakfast where 3 escapees continue riding toward Beris. We had breakfast and there were split decision on continue to ride to the grape plantation or u turn home. There were 7 opt to go and 7 decided to go home.

The magnificent 7 went on for another 10km ride and reached the grape plantation. They visited the place, tasted the local grape and juice. Took some good picture and enjoy the tour on the grape plantation. The worker was good and provide the team very good explaination on how to grow grape.

After 30min, it is the time to cycle another 70km home. It 11am and the hot sun awaiting. The m. seven never look back, we conquered the hilly terrain and reach desa aman in 3 hours with a mee goring stop at bukit selambau. Total cycled distance ~140km with average speed 27km. It was challenging but enjoyable journey especially to see and hold the grape by yourself in Malaysia.



For pictures, pls visit
http://picasaweb.google.com/CrankyMTBriders/BerisGrapePlantation#

Sunday ride--sept 18 jurrasic park to junjong

Meet and depart from oze 7am sharp.

Sat Ride- Sept 11- Nasty ride

meet oze at 7am.

Sept 4th- Ride with visitor from US, Steve folsom

Ky's manager will be in town and he is excited to join our regular Saturday ride
So, crankies pls support the ride. See u then. Oze 7am. Route: tbd

Merdeka ride-31 August

it was almost time to ride at 7am but still missing few regulars riders. That could be because it is not a regular day. It is merdeka day. Finally, we have 11 people. We decided not to pursue the Junjong route but rather cycle toward Changkat and back to Batu kawan for the uphill. With not many fast riders, it was fun and smooth ride. A few sprints but just for fun and not intent to breakaway. It was control and just about good enough to get the stomach empty for a big breakfast. it is. We finished 27 glasses of water with 10 person. So, you tell yourself it is real easy ride or what.
Great day, great ride.

One shortfall, so dissaponited with Ah Boon's bike. The bike brokedown at the wrong moment where Boon can shown off his talent. i bet it is time for him to hang his bicycle at OZE and get a new one.

Not many picture taken as usual. A few only courtesy of Mark during breakfast. visit cranky album if you like to share the joy.

Cameron Highland Ride--15th August

Meet at oze 4.15 am and we will be leaving by 4.30am.
For those going by yrself, pls be at the place ~6.15am for bike set up and bfast.
Will start pedal from simpang pulai 7am
5 hours cycle time up.
Lunch at the peak 12-1pm.
Start decending 1pm.
Should be back to Oze by 5pm

Will advise exact parking location in simpang pulai later of the week.

Things to bring along
1. Food as u need to cycle for five hours before the first food stop
2. Camelbak, if you don't have. Buy one, there are still some in Oze
3. Wind breaker, arm warmer or if you don't have, bring few big plastic bag.

Map where you park yr car



Route Profile




Pls contact barrack if you have any question

Sat Ride-- Nibong Tebal Jamboree Trail

Meet at OZE, 7am
Pls change yr offroad tyres to rock

Sat Ride Jul 10- 300 kaki

Meet at OZE 7am sharp. Bullet is coming.

Sunday ride-bukit merah

Meet at oze at 615am
Depart 630am
Will cycle 50km and return
Total distance 100km
Lunch will be served at flower's house

Sat Ride Jun 26- Batu Kawan Mini Jamboree

Meet at Oze ~ 7:15-7.30am, will cycle to Batu Kawan Stadium

flag off by 8am.

Details, refer to :
http://gerekgunung.blogspot.com/

Sunday Ride 6th Jun- Green Gold Ride

Starting point- Tapak Rekreasi Taman Robina, Teluk air tawar
Flag off tine: 7am
Meeting point: Surrounding Taman Robina area.

All cranky's pls be there by 630am to 645am

Sunday Ride 23rd May--Lata Bayu

This sunday. Monthly long ride to Lata Bayu. More details to come later. As promised. More details now.

Meeting place: White House
Meet Time : 6.15 – 6.30am
Depart : 6.40am

Water Bag encourage.
Breakfast at: Kuala Pegang (flowers will prepare packed food)

p/s: will go through Labu Besar on the way back…

Avg speed: 30km/h (don't beleive that as Bullet is coming)
Difficulty: Moderate to Difficult as many slopes anticipated

Sunday Ride 15th May--Jerai

today we have total 26 crankies who are come from Island, Butterworth, Simpang Ampat, Kulim, Jitra and Pengkalan Hulu as well, to ride up the Jerai Hill. We began the climb at 8.10am. Mr. Senyum arrived at 8.15am and started chasing up; This time Mr.Senyum comes with a purpose - to get revenge on his previous ride, finally he was conqured the hill...cheers!

Most of us(senior and junior) climbs up to the peak; the best time was 1:09, marked by Ah Wei, then Albert...CK(parit Buntar), and "the rest" keep on arrived one after another.

Showering by love and breads of their hubby, two of our lady crankies - flower and Soak Lee finally success to be at top despite ankle pain, hungry, tired...cheers!

This time most of us suffering in hungry and thirsty, duck soup keoy teow + 100plus was the only wish at the top there...

We ended the ride on 11.35am, everyone of us enjoy the ride.

WHERE ARE ALL THE CRANKIES FROM INTEL KULIM???

Sunday Ride- Din Sum ride

Don't wonder why there is no blog update after the Kuala Gula ride. It is just me out of town and no joining the nite ride. So, nothing to update. I'm back. So, some brief story about sunday ride

We started from Tambun to Jurasic park. Then, we routed to Junjong, then to Kulim for din sum. It is a fun ride but not so relax as we still did ~60km going through hills, slopes and flat. But, we all have fun especially the Din Sum.

You can visit the cranky album to view the pictures.

Captain Boon, you should have follow the team to kulim.

Sunday Apr 25th---Kuala Gula

It has been some times we didn't go for 100km+ ride. For this month, we will do a trip to Kuala Gula.

Meeting point: OZE
Time: 615am. Will start on time by 6.30am.

Anything, pls contact Barrack.

Sunday 3.21--SP Ride

Meeting Place: Cinta Sayang Country Club, SP
Time: 7:50am

You can park yr car somewhere at the shop house area.
Pls wear crank'y team jersey.

Driving direction
From Sungai Dua Toll, Go all the way toward SP.
Take the SG. PETANI Utara/SG. LATANG exit onto PERSIMPANGAN SUNGAI PETANI UTARA(E170) (Toll applies) - go 0.7 mi
Turn Left on 1st Traffic light Junction - go 1km
Turn Left on 2nd traffic light toward hospital Sungai Petani - go 2.4 km
Turn Right on the traffic light after Hospital Sungai Petani---go 1.4km and reach cinta saying.


If you can't find the place, pls contact John at 0125325386

Sat Ride 3.20---Juru to Cangkat

Meet at OZE 7am

Sat Ride Mar 13th--Changkat

Meet at OZE 7am.

Sunday Mar 7th- Bukit Langkap

Meeting Point: sekitar Kampung Mengkuang
Time: 7.15-7.30am
Route: Offroad/ Trail 100%.

We also have riders from other groups. So, come and have fun.

Barrack's new Giant XTC 2010

Guys, look at tbe brand new giant xtc 2010 frame with full SLX groupset. It's Barrack bike for 2010. The whole bike is only 10.36kg.



You can contact Albert(OZE) for quotation if you want to build the 2010 model.

Crank'y Q1 Dinner

Fellow crankies. we will have Q1 dinner on 25th Feb at KY's bungalow. Time is 8pm. Great foods and more important we have up to RM3k lucky draw items to grab.
Come and have fun all crankies.

See the grand prize

Sunday Ride 31st Jan--Air Itam Dam

Time: 7.15am
Meeting Place: Foothill of Air Itam Dam
Route: 1200steps+ Iron Cross+ Sg Rusa.

Sunday Ride Jan 17th----Bukit Lima Kongsi+CP1

12 riders total participated on the ride. The 1st route was same as last week. So, nothing new. Everyone went through smoothly after last week 1st ride. Mark was brilliantly cycled through the single track uphill at 110kg. He was the top performer of the day. After bukit kongsi, we went on to tackle the CP1(NT Jamboree trail) follow by the usual morning b/f at the malay store.

After b/f. The group was divided as the fast faster started to breakaway but finally everyone reached OZE safely ~1140am

It was not a good day for Tua Chiak, he had flated tyre 3 times for the ride. Barrack had chain broken as well. But, with Chief mechainic on site, no problem at all. Thanks Alberto.

Sunday Ride---10th Jan

Beautiful sunday morning. 7.00am We have 10 crank'y ready for exploration ride 3 Cks+ CK's brother, Alberto, Teo, Barrack, Tua Chiak, Bullet and Yeap. but we can't move as we still mising Wei Min. He was late. We were kind this time.(crank'y, pls be on time). Around 7.10am, we were leaving the way to Lima Kongsi. The speed was steady at 20+kmh and one weird thing happend where we have 2 riders detour and didn't make a right hand turn to Lima Kongsi. 2 riders go straight toward Tasek. We managed to bring back Ck's brother but another CK, too bad. He was on his own as he rided to far and we can't get him back.(riders, pls occasionally look behind to ensure u are with the group). We met with Halim and we go ahead with our exploration ride.

The trail was not far from Halim's house. we entered the trail right beside the school. It was not smooth as we were looking around for the correct route. After some trial, we managed to locate the LP club paper mark and with that, we managed to ride through the trail and came up a small industrial estate at relau.

The trail is single track and some area is pretty steep. So, it was challening but ridable. Downhill was not bad too. Only some portion u may need to carry but majority were good.

We finished the trail ~10am and headed for b/fast and fast ride back to OZE.

GPS Profile for the trail

Sunday Ride 3rd Jan---Pengkalan Hulu

高乌3日讯)
今日我们决定来个轻松的路程。应Cranky高乌区部主任阿康的邀请，一大清早6.30am, Crankies 一行十五人-Albert,Halim,Teoh,Wei,Shing,Keong,Lim,Wooi,Shyan,Keat,CK,Steven,Yeap，还有还有，这次我们来了两个少年Crankies- Jacky & Ghee Kheng，带着兴奋与期待的心情，浩浩荡荡的从新邦安拔与居林出发。

经过一个小时半的车程, 大家终于到达了高乌, 喜见阿康,阿良, little John 和今天的领队- En.Yusri 已等候多时。 转眼间, 大家也都把脚车装好了,还等什么？ 出发啰!

经过高乌的街道, 我们进入小山丘, 沿着山路，迎面而来的是一片开发中的园地,接着是一片片青葱的橡胶园和油棕园。此时天气阴凉多云, 我们还担心会下雨呢...





大家在兴奋的心情下,呼着新鲜无比的空气朝着康庄且完好的小泥路来到了最高峰, 景色一望无际，一群人一边车大炮一边等待着我们的队花。 当大家都准备好时, 我们开始享受一波又一波的下斜岭,犹如Jamboree般，真刺激！ 沿途给我们加油的, 还有胶工与开芭工人.







大约十时, 我们来到此行第二休息点，打昔村(暹人与华人居多), 阿康款待大家100号,谢谢谢谢.


之后我们以十五分钟的路程来到Gua Gendang，一个开放给大众作团队设立的世外桃园。此处有一座千年水帘洞，洞深800公尺，En.Yusri 说此洞保留完整与原始面貌，空气清凉，各类形状的钟乳石遍佈石洞中。既然未经加工的保留原始面貌，探险者必须涉水与攀爬，及须佩带照明灯方可。所以Crankies 们望洞兴叹，只能过其洞而不入，下回吧...







此刻，大家的五脏庙开始咕噜咕噜叫，好了，我们就往最后一站起航吧！轻松的经过一些马来甘榜与园丘，再经过西马第二大军营，我们终于来到我们的终点 - 高乌观音庙。今日是高乌观音庙年度哪督公酬神日，一阵阵的咖哩香味已扑鼻而来，实在是振奋人心！抵达时，酬神中，约三十分钟的休息与期待后，餐宴终于开始了，在村民热情的招待下，香喷喷的咖哩羊肉与鸡肉配上热腾腾的白米饭...哗..简直是完美搭配，人间美食，Crankies们都狼吞虎咽，添了又再添，吃得比哪督公还多，哇....赞！多谢哪督公.... 总理说此行甚愉，应纳入常年活动，将会把它带入内阁会议探讨，并寻求通过。







此程全长二十六公里，路程轻松愉快，凉风徐徐，阳光温和，实为完美。难得可贵的是“大只”没有破风！



摄影：婉娴，亿薪

Penang Fellowship Ride 1st Jan

It is history by itself. For the 1st time ever, cyclist were allowed to cycle through Penang bridge. Even better is we have huge support from crank'y riders on new year day.It was the attention from the media and camera crews with the striking jersey and the coverage of members. From youth to veteran, from featherweight to super heavyweight.

The ride was good and fun. It was around 76km with 2 major stop. The ride started on time and with good coordination from the organiser. The marhsall did a good job on coordinating the ride. Kudos.

Below are some pics taken during the ride.

Group pic at autocity before the event start.












1st water stop at Paya Terubung.Everyone made it.


2nd water stop at The Dam. All these all top crank'y riders


At finishing line. Mr. Mark, our super heavyweight champion


On the way back.




For more pictures, visit
http://picasaweb.google.com/CrankyMTBriders/BridgeRide?feat=directlink