the primadonnas and troublemakers.
Once burned by a few so-called friends, Siang had decided that it was best to keep the group small as it is manageable in many aspects.
I have offered my services to
organize the group while Siang had spent some sleepless nights planning the route.
It's been more than a year since I rode with Chris Wong, one of the original members of our Rawang - Sekinchan offroad expedition.
He said he was good to go this time and we're just glad he came along because he's a livewire.
My usual gang: Roger Teoh, Patric Yee and Mohd Radzi Mohd Noor were among those who also joined in the ride.
We had Wey and Ming, our old cycling kakis from the 10.10.10 ride, Siang's other half Angela, Raman, their trekking buddy whom I met for the first time and Walter, a German dude residing here in Malaysia.
The head count was 12 riders and I'm just happy with the number.
We drove to Sabak Bernam after work to spend a night there so that we won't have to rush off early in the morning.
The instructions was to pack lunch in town and bring it along.
Since we were riding mostly offroad, I brought our Dahon Jetstream which was fitted with a set of Maxxis DTH dirt tires.
As soon as we were gathered, we rode out towards a village some 3km outside Sabak Bernam to begin the journey into the oil palm estate.
We proceeded into a village and experienced our first flat tire.
This time, it was Raman who had a puncture on his mountain bike's rear tire.
All of us took turns to fix the bike and it wasn't until Chris Wong had intervened to remedy the problem so that Raman could continue with his journey.
We had a slight downtime and the day was getting really hot.
From the village, we went on cycling into an oil palm estate and that's where the fun begins!
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