Short offroad ride near Malim Nawar

Sat 27Feb16 7:30 a.m.

A group of ten cyclists gathered at the bridge over the railway tracks just after 7 o'clock on this cool Saturday morning. We set off for a short 4 km offroad trail near Malim Nawar before settling down for an unhurried breakfast at Yen Lee Thong coffee shop (Sai's Shop) at about 8:30 am. After spending an hour chatting over our food, we set off on our return journey to Kampar with some going to Kampar old town to wait for the Le Tour de Langkawi Stage 4 cyclists to arrive, while others went home.

Cyclists: Me, Ganesan, ChinYao, Kautham, Theeva, Eugene, Arun, Kai, Bryan, Sunil,

A little breakfast before I left home

Arriving at the bridge over the railway tracks I met Arun and Kautham

GaNeSan arrived shortly after 7.15 am

One of our new friends, Kai 

Beautiful sun peeking over the eastern hilltops

A brief stop atop the bridge over railway tracks

Myself on the bridge

About halfway into the offroad trail, we regrouped at a branch in the path

KCC Boss taking many photos

Looking back from where I came

Arun and Kautham looking none the worse off

Kai and ChinYao

The sun welcomes us to our final km offroad

At last we arrive at Yen Lee Thong Coffee Shop Malim Nawar, pretty helmets all in a cluster

Waiting for our orders to arrive, clockwise from left: Eugene, ChinYao,Ganesan, Kautham and Arun

Clockwise from bottom: Ganesan, Kautham, Arun, Sunil, Theeva, Kai, Bryan, Eugene, Chinyao

My favourite pair of blue framed Oakley shades

After breakfast, some of us crossed the road to inflate tyres at a bicycle shop

Me, Kai and ChinYao

KCC Taiko coming back for his bicycle

Bryan, Kai and ChinYao all set to return to Kampar

After a short 6 km ride, we back on top of the bridge over railway tracks again

Posing for one more selfie in my KMR2015 jersey

Group ride to Adeline's Villa Gopeng

Saturday 13Feb2016

A group of seven riders from Kampar Cycling Community went on this 48 km ride to Adeline's Villa, about 3 km uphill from Gopeng town. Six of us, Ganesan, Theeva, Kautham, Eugene, Haoyang and my started off from McDonald's Bandar Baru Kampar and were joined by Arun at the Petron Station near Batu Karang. We left Kampar at about 7:30 in the morning, spent an hour at the hill resort, returned downhill to have a half-hour cendol break in Gopeng town, before cycling back to reach Kampar by about 2 pm under a very hot afternoon sun.

We arrived in Gopeng just before 9 am for breakfast at Restaurant Gopeng

This was the where we had breakfast

After a long hard climb up a narrow hill road, we arrived in Adeline's villa

Looking out from the entrance

There were ferns everywhere

A perspective of giant claypots at the entrance

An improvised fountain

Chinese New Year Decorations hanging at the main entrance

Looking uphill to where the chalets are located

Beautiful green surroundings

We left our bicycles by the entrance and walked up this steep slope

Looking back from the slope we saw two tall durian trees

Trying out a hammock at the hill top cafe

After a brief downhill ride, we were in Gopeng town again. It was just past noon, the weather was enervating and some of us bought cendol from this food truck

My one year old Raleigh taking a rest while waiting for everyone to finish their cendol break

Found these coins by the road side during our slow uphill climb earlier. Will donate it to charity