Organized by KSH Bicycle , it was the first time Tarmac downhill scene that Kuala Lumpur Downtown 2008 hit the streets of Kuala Lumpur. This time around, this downhill event was going to be bigger and better, and held at the newly open area at National Sports Complex. New this year to the event was the addition of the freestyle show off, and with a big cash bursary and tonnes of prizes to win, Kuala Lumpur Downtown 2008 attracted many top riders from across Malaysia and even riders as far as Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
Bukit Jalil was hot...real hot on that weekend ... probably as hot as we've ever felt it. 40 degree Celsius without the wind-chill, it was definitely the best weather to have event on. The event was started at the top of the Commenwealth hill which actually open for the jogger only. But the whole park had been rearranged for the competition and new stuff had been built. The event organizers had obviously worked very hard to built 20 foot gap launcer and receiver for the competition. During race day, riders were pulling some big air off to amazed the crowd.It was awesome to see the amount of people that came to see the competition and it made it all that much better to have the loud crowd pumping the riders to go bigger. The main attaction of that day was a special skill appearance of professional downhill mountain biker, World Cup champion in 2002, 2004 and 2006, Steve Peat and Down hill/freeride champion Cedric Garcia.
Radical Freeride representative, Kidd had a bad luck where his tyre lost its pressure at the end of the course. Resulting, his best time effected and cant managed to fit in the best 30 of his class. It was completely amazed at the amount of awesome riding that went on during the weekend. Kuala Lumpur Downtown 2008 had definitely been a huge success and a very well organized
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