Putrajaya Critical mass ride - 19 Dec 2008

19 December 08, Putrajaya Critical mass celebrate end up the last ride of 2008, the organizer decided to advance the date of the ride because of the X’mas celebration coming. Afraid, that day the people can’t make it to ride. The mtb gores initially very anxious about the weather that night. It was very unpredictable where some place in Putrajaya raining and some is not. The ‘nothing else matter’ participants gathered at famous mamak’s restaurants, Presint 9, Putrajaya, chatting, hang up with others mtb gores while waiting the rain stopped. Me, Razlan, Zamroni and Zul, join the crowd waiting the rain to stop until about 10pm the rain start to decrease. We start assembled the bikes and the nearly 70 bikers turn up that night even though we all start a bit late about 10:30pm to roll out, the bikers still had a patient to wait the rain to stop. The rides varies from the single speed, mountain bikes, full-sus, hard tail to road bikes hit the tarmac.

The Putrajaya resident who already aware about the bunch of mtb bikers ride at their territory was bikers conscious. It quit hard making a long trail of mtbs because the several traffic lights cut off the trail. From Presint 9 to Presint 8, we paddled slowly to big roundabout (Persiaran Perdana) at the governments offices. It was slow step where the road was quit busy until we all reach at the highway (Lebuh Wadi Ehsan) to PICC. Once we reach the highway the road was completely empty of cars and the bikers start to speed up. The road is about 5 km stretch of ups and downs road to PICC. Once we all reach PICC the group stop and had a break to gather back the crowd. There, I had quit a long break because I was at the front pack once arrived. It was fun to catch up the old stories where we were there last month. From the PICC, there was a straight road along the government building boulevard. This was the most exciting road to ride on. It was very ‘no stress’ ride where we rode with joy and snap some pictures while riding. The view was stunning where with tall, bright, different shapes of building. This was the heart of Putrajaya. That night the middle of the road was closed temporarily due to construct the stages, stalls, Bike Park and the half pipe for the tomorrow BMX event.

We headed to Presint 9 where we started rolled. Most mtb bikers had their break and same time continued mingled with other mtb bikers at the mamak restaurants. We had our refreshment and back home about 12:30pm. This riding event is perfect for those who like to begin and understand what the pleasure from the pain of cycling is.