This year the holy month of Ramadan eventually arrived. Ramadan is the holy moth by Muslim where eating and drinking (anything insert into a body) is prohibited during the days. It’s like cleansing the soul and it’s a month good deeds. Unless like previous year, I stop cycling for a whole month, but this year, some of the guys try to pinch a wee bit of time to get the sweat out. It is not like we ignore the holy month, but the good time of the day to cycle is after 10pm.
So this year, I try to get out and as every last Friday of the month, Putrajaya Criticalmass still continued this month. The difference is, it start a bit late which is 11pm. Last Friday, I packed up my bike and headed to Putrajaya for the night ride. That particular night was quit a night for the cyclist, where I spotted 2 groups of cyclist did a run in Duke Highway as I passed by.
As planned, I arrived there and waited for Aze and Aidi. I arrived about 1030pm and look like quit a numbers turn out that night. Its not as many like normal night, but it still reach about 50 people participated. 
Due to some people arrived a bit late, the event started about 1130pm and the organizer made a simple brief where the route will we paddle to. From the Hall of Justice we started paddle to the PICC, there we circle around the PICC which there was our first up hill climb. It was a slow paddling pace, I wonder when is the real push going to be, it is will be a slow pace all night long? Then, we all head up to the Alamanda, until there we been cycle about 10km in slow pace. From there, the real action is begun where we cycled in huge open highway to PICC. That route was where the speed action begins, where the roadies made a sprint and the mtb trying to catch up. We all gather back at the PICC and had a quick break, waited for the rest. Unlucky, one of the riders had an over limit energy consumption. He vomited and had to rush to nearby hospital because of dehydration and lag of energy. Later, after the event, I told that he only had a bread for breakfasting, training for the whole evening and been cycled from Bukit Jalil to Putra jaya. No wonder he passed out.
We end back to Hall of Justice about 130pm and made a 36km run that night. It is unusual for me to cycle in Ramadan and this time the route took quit tougher that any previous months. At least, I was being continually maintaining my fitness, even though in Ramadan.
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.
This year the holy month of Ramadan eventually arrived. Ramadan is the holy moth by Muslim where eating and drinking (anything insert into a body) is prohibited during the days. It’s like cleansing the soul and it’s a month good deeds. Unless like previous year, I stop cycling for a whole month, but this year, some of the guys try to pinch a wee bit of time to get the sweat out. It is not like we ignore the holy month, but the good time of the day to cycle is after 10pm.
So this year, I try to get out and as every last Friday of the month, Putrajaya Criticalmass still continued this month. The difference is, it start a bit late which is 11pm. Last Friday, I packed up my bike and headed to Putrajaya for the night ride. That particular night was quit a night for the cyclist, where I spotted 2 groups of cyclist did a run in Duke Highway as I passed by.
Due to some people arrived a bit late, the event started about 1130pm and the organizer made a simple brief where the route will we paddle to. From the Hall of Justice we started paddle to the PICC, there we circle around the PICC which there was our first up hill climb. It was a slow paddling pace, I wonder when is the real push going to be, it is will be a slow pace all night long? Then, we all head up to the Alamanda, until there we been cycle about 10km in slow pace. From there, the real action is begun where we cycled in huge open highway to PICC. That route was where the speed action begins, where the roadies made a sprint and the mtb trying to catch up. We all gather back at the PICC and had a quick break, waited for the rest. Unlucky, one of the riders had an over limit energy consumption. He vomited and had to rush to nearby hospital because of dehydration and lag of energy. Later, after the event, I told that he only had a bread for breakfasting, training for the whole evening and been cycled from Bukit Jalil to Putra jaya. No wonder he passed out.
