Putrajaya Bike Park - 10 Jan 2009

First of all, we just want to say, "Jack, you missed the fun. Hahahaha".

We tried to follow the same trail Andreas shown us in previous ride. It was not that hard to recognize those trail since mostly single track and end up somewhere tarmac road again. What we should have done differently in the next ride is to use tarmac to climb, and offroad downhill :)

We met Didi Schneider, the architect of the Putrajaya Park.

Didi is the one in Orange T-Shirt. Errr....... Correction. His is the one in front of me. Hehe.


Dont be fool by his beer belly. He can fly !!!!



Here are some action pics of Wild Geeks.








Thanks Andreas for introducing us the trial, and also to Didi.

Putrajaya Challenge Park Ride

A group 11 of us went to Putrajaya Challenge Park for a ride in the morning. Lead by Andreas who has been there before, we completed 4 segments of the trails available there. The challenge park is a purpose-built park for extreme sports. We also saw heavy tractors which is used to build a MTB trail for riders like us!

The trails are short but very interesting and challenging at times. The terrain along the trail is all uphill and downhill with very little flat rides. Mostly made up of canopied single track which provides much needed shield from the sun. The canopy also bring up a beautiful trail in the forest.

Here is a trail of the ride

Putrajaya Challenge Park


More photos to come.

KL Downtown 2008 Urban Downhill

Today, I took the kids to watch the practice run of the KL Downtown mountain bike urban downhill race held in Bukit Komanwel Park and Stadium. There were 100 plus riders from various parts of the world competing in the race. If I am not mistaken, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia riders outnumber the rest.

Although I did not managed to see them, the main attraction were of course Santa Cruz Syndicate's Steve Peat (7 years Reigning King of Red Bull Downtown Portugal), Josh Bryceland (2008 Junior World Champ) and Cedric Gracia of Commencal Oakley.

I did however managed to catch Aaron on his spanking new bike. Good luck Aaron! I hope you kick everyone's ass in the Men Junior category! I could not find one of the geeks participating in the race, Ian Foo. I heard one of his wheels gave out on him during the practice run.


Aaron on the left.

The categories of the race are:

1. Men Elite (Professional and Current National or State Rider)
2. Men Open (18 years old and above)
3. Women Open (18 years old and above)
4. Men Master (30 years old and above)
5. Men Junior (17 years old and below)

Also, there were a lot of very nice and cool bikes!!! These are favourtites...







All in all, the air at the race location were festive and my kids just loved it!


My kids at finish line section waiting for the riders to fly down the stairs!