Monday, 19 October 2009
.:: "Comeback Ride" To KL ::.
Its been more than a year Bebeh and I had not gone riding. So "38" came to the rescue and covered FD6S duties while he's still recuperating.
On Saturday, 13 riders, 4 pillions and a family in a car went for a ride to KL. We decided to do a long way round to KL rather than the normal route via the highway.
Upon reaching Mersing, Zul Big Bird's motorbike had some problems and refused to barge even after some tweaking done by the experts. He decided to leave it at one of a local motorbike shops after diagnosed it with a suspected fuel pump problem. He hitched a ride in Abg Man's car instead.
Not long after we proceeded with the ride, another unforeseen situation happened. This time, it was a minor accident between a GS1200 Adv and a cow!
A herd of cows were by the roadside and I recalled Bebeh was doing his intermitent braking, trying to warn fellow riders. One of the cows was just indecisive and that's when the accident happened. Thank God, rider, pillion & bike only suffered minor scratches.
The next test of our endurance was when after Pekan the weather turned sombre and there was a heavy downpour till at one point we just had to stop at a petrol kiosk as the visibility on the road was bad.
We reached KL at about 6pm and it was about a 12hrs ride from Singapore! Although most of us we initially soaked with sweat and later on drenched with rainwater right up to our socks and undies, we were all in positive spirit. We stayed at Crown Regency for the nite and left on Sunday.
The ride back home wasn't really that smooth as our group of 6 bikes got a lil lost in KL while trying to find our way to the highway.
The next pit stop for rest and petrol was supposed to be at Ayer Keroh RnR. Due to mis-com (was it?) the other group left us and headed to meet us at Pagoh instead.
Other than these few glitches, all of us had fun and hoped that more of such rides, minus the glitches to come.
