MACHAP REVISTED – UNDER HOT SUN

Our weekend ride for today (28th February 2010) was to follow the Machap trail. This trail was used for the Fun Ride 2009 which was organized by our club. Six strong riders participated for today ride. Amat, Rosdy, Ham, Amri, Cikgu Ali and senior rider brother Eddy. This is the first time bro Eddy rides with the gang.
Our ride took off from Taman Intan around 0750am. We headed straight to Kampung Rahmat which is around 10km from Taman Intan. When we got there, we meet with brother Zaini who was raiding an off road bike (scrambler). Zaini who is actually a friend of Cikgu Ali accompanied us until we reached Tasik Machap. It was already 0815.

We had been to Tasik Machap a number of occasions before. We always stop by to enjoy the view it offers. But this time we were surprised to see the water level of the lake had dropped. Well, considering that Kluang had not been rain for almost 2 months, it is no surprised this good looking lake will dry up soon. And Kluang has already started water rationing since last month.

We continued riding. Instead of going to Machap’s town, we decided to try our luck by exploring a new trail to Kampung Pisang. Our guide was the telecommunication tower station. We managed to find the trail and climbed up the hill until the front gate of the tower’s station. We took a break and enjoy the view from top of the hill. What a refreshing scene!!!

We continued with the down hill. When we reached the base of the hill, we realized that we had left Amri and Zaini behind. We waited for 5 minutes before they finally showed up.

Continued our ride..and as we went further, we realized that the trail we were taking would not lead us to Kampung Pisang. A local told us that this trail will take us to Sri Lalang…..Booooom….we got the wrong trail!!!

No choice…the ride must go on….So we hesitantly decided to continue our ride to Sri Lalang as it was already 1000am. The sun was already shining on us and we were really being tested. There was no tree for us to shade from the hot sun. We were so exhausted that we had to push our bikes a number of time even when climbing small hills. We had to use our drinking water wisely as the sun really hot on us. After about one hour ride under the hot sun, we finally found tress along the road. We rested for a while feeling tired hungry and of course thirsty.

We continued again and finally arrived at Taman Ria Sri Lalang. We went straight to the nearby store to get a fresh and cold drink!!!

Some of us really think that was the hardest weekend ride so far….and I said, you asked for it…….