Ipoh Century Ride 2009 Ride Report

4.30AM
Ringggggg! My alarm clock had rang and started to wake everyone up. Eng Chong & Shaiful is among the first to ready to roll out to the starting point.

While I began to gear up myself, I manage to loaded myself as much carbohydrates as I can with bread, power bar, chocolate bar and bananas. While waiting for others ready, we have another round of good laugh in the hall. Some planning how they gonna attack, some planning how to follow the peloton to complete the ride but I’m planning how to survive this ride.

5.30AM
Everyone is ready while the bikes & luggage is all loaded into the car, we headed out to Bukit Kinding (our start/finish point) somewhere near Tanjung Rambutan, Ipoh. While we arrive at the starting point, there is already lots of cyclist getting ready for the ride. Without wasting any time, I quickly change into my bike gearing, pump air into my tires, refill my water bottles and pack myself with Power Bars & Power Gels into the back pocket.

6.30AM
I ride myself to the starting line (there is a short steep climb at the top of the hill) I begin to wonder myself if I’m able to complete this year century ride. With my new bike only with me for few days, I didn't have enough time to test it out or get use to it. Anyway, time had come and I have to go on.

7.00AM
After NEGARAKU song had been played, the horn sound and a total of 500 riders is rolling out to the open road. For the first 5km, I was speeding up together with Yong as the front peloton has been pulling very fast. I didn't manage to follow Yong pace and soon I manage to get myself in a small group of 10 riders and started to chase the front. Yong is out of my sight as the day is still dark, I’m trying hard to follow my own group.

I was not properly warm up and soon discover I’m having hard time catching my breath. I slow down and stick onto the rear group and begin the calm myself down. At 10km point, I overtook Eng Chong and soon I was together with Kong Hing. As the route become hilly, Kong Hing slip back while I’m still stick myself into the group.

The route become tougher as the gradient of the rolling hills became steeper and steeper. Passing by Jalong intersection and we begin to head ourselves to Sungai Siput town. My group became bigger and bigger as we were joined by lots of solo riders dropping from the main peloton up in the front.

SUNGAI SIPUT TOWN.
Passing by Sungai Siput town, most of the road condition is downhill, the pace became faster and faster causing my group to split into few bunch. I’m still trying hard to stick with the front peloton around 5-6 riders left. Approaching Kuala Kangsar town, I was thinking to myself, should I maintain this hard ride or should I wait for the rear peloton to join in. As I looked back, I saw a big peloton (around 100 riders) is closing into my back. I quickly make my move and joined into this big peloton.

I saw Hamid and together we chit-chat for a while. Riding in a peloton its way too much different compare to ride alone. Passes Kuala Kangsar town, I have no problem following the peloton. Soon, the peloton headed to an open highway road leading us to Grik town.

Stay tuned...

Ipoh Century Ride 2009 (The night before)

It was the most exciting day everyone was waiting for…Ipoh Century Ride 2009 is finally here.

I was busy packing and gearing up my bike stuff, clothes, nutrition, bike gearing and waiting for Yong to pick me up around 1.30pm. As plan, Yong arrived and soon my bike and luggage is already loaded in the car and ready to roll out to Ipoh.

As we soon realized we are out of Power Bars & Power Gels, we manage to stop by at Giant Supermarket and get lots of them. I’m very sure I’m gonna need all the energy bars & gels for tomorrow ride.

Century ride is a marathon ride for any cyclist who wanted to crown themselves by completing a total ride distance of 160km within a time limit.

As we reach Ipoh, we quickly get our apartment key (for our stay for the night) and get ourselves down to Ipoh Tower. This year, Ipoh Tower had been chosen to be the area for our race number, goodies bag, tag, free gifts collection.

I collected for all our Sitiawan Cycling Club riders and leave the building around 6pm. We headed to Tesco for our dinner while waiting for others to arrive. We have a good laugh at the mamak stall before headed back to the apartment for the night.

As we check out the goodies bag, we gear up our bikes with race number, oil the chain & double check the air pressure. Yong & Rafi had the chance to get a injection of B Complex vitamin brought by our doc (Kumar). We have another round of good laugh before everyone began to sleep for the night.

TOKEN Products

TOKEN EX-TYPE Integrated Bottom Bracket with Tiramic Bearing

Weight : 95g

Comment by "Kumar" our Ipoh Century Ride 2009 had clocked 5hours 6mins.

"This bottom bracket is sooooooooo smooth"

Comment by "Yau" our new local MTB rider.

"It is veryyyyyy lightweight"

My Latest Bike (DREAM BIKE)

This is my current ride...hehehe



Frame : Giant T-Mobile TCR Composite Team Bike with Giant T-Mobile Carbon fork

Drivetrain : Dura Ace 10s

Handlebar : Guizzo Carbon HandleBar with Carbon Stem

Saddle : Fizik Arionne

Seatpost : Giant Composite Seatpost

Bottlecage : ELITE Carbon

Wheelset : Dura Ace 7850-C24 Wheelset

Tire : Continental Ultra Race 700x23 Tire

Meter : CatEye Strada Wireless

Pedals : Shimano T-Mobile pedal

Ipoh Century Ride 2009 Conquer!

With my new bike, I've complete my Ipoh Century Ride 2009 at the clocked of

6hours 11mins.

YIPPIE!!! I finally did it again. Stay tuned for the full report!!

Sitiawan Cycling Club Finishers:-
1. Yong Yee Wan 5h 15mins
2. Santhirakumar a/l Kathan 5h 12mins
3. Raimi bin Abd Razak 9th placing Category A
5. Shaiful Bahri bin Yunus
6. Mohd Raffi bin Hj Mohd Pilus 4h 49mins
7. Ridzal Sham bin Kamarulzaman 4h 45mins
8. Ting Kong Hing 6h 30mins
9. Jasni bin Bahari 5h 41mins
10. Abdul Hamid Ramli
11. Ong Eng Chong 6h 50mins
14. Mohd Khairul Anuar 4h 45mins
12. Muhammad Zulhusni bin Mohamad - DNF
13. Tan Chee Seong a.k.a Ah Chui - DNS

NO RIDE for Ipoh Century Ride 2009

Sorry guys as my bike just sold to a very nice gentleman Saidi.

Looks like i wont be riding for this year Ipoh Century Ride 2009 as i got NO RIDE.

Have a plesant enjoyable ride. Will be there to support you all!

Proton T-Sprint R CVS Complete Bike

SOLD

Proton CVS Carbon Complete Bike up for grab

Size : 53cm

Condition : Excellent

Measurement : Top Tube 52cm (c-c), Seat Tube 49cm (c-c)

Reason of selling : Retiring from cycling, to fund for other hobby

Items included :-

Proton T-Sprint CVS Carbon Frameset with Proton Carbon fork

Ultegra 10s complete groupset

Dura Ace 7900 New Chain

Jagwire White Kevlar Cables (very light & smooth shifting/braking)

Ritchey WCS Wet Black Handlebar 44cm

Ritchey WCS Wet Black Stem 130mm

Wheelset Mavic Ksyrium SSC with tires, tube, rimtape & quick release (lightweight wheels)

Shimano 105 wide pedal

Fizik Arionne Saddle

Bontrager Carbon Seatpost

For those interested, please SMS/Call at 014-6043366 (albert)

FREE GIFTS :

Ritchey WCS Alu Handlebar (42cm)

Dura Ace BB (brand new)

Payment : Cash, All major Credit Card accepted, 2x payment also can be arranged

IPOH CENTURY RIDE 2009

The event is just around the corner, have you guys ready to roll?

160KM need to be covered by bike. Let's prepare the fluid, power bar, power gel and "steriod" if necessary...hehehe

Representing Sitiawan
1. Yong Yee Wan
2. Albert Toh Boon Huat
3. Santhirakumar a/l Kathan
4. Raimi bin Abd Razak
5. Shaiful Bahri bin Yunus
6. Mohd Raffi bin Hj Mohd Pilus
7. Ridzal Sham bin Kamarulzaman
8. Ting Kong Hing
9. Jasni bin Bahari
10. Abdul Hamid Ramli
11. Ong Eng Chong
12. Muhammad Zulhusni bin Mohamad
13. Tan Chee Seong a.k.a Ah Chui
14. Navy Anuar

Its time to prepare your bike...or i should say upgrade?

Imagine when you use Dura Ace 7900 Groupset, Dura Ace C50 Wheelset and new Pinarello Dogma frameset. You dont have to cycle fast as you already look FAST!

It's also time to prepare the ride...or i should say keep thin?

Cut all the Nasi Lemak, KFC, McDonald, Chicken Wings....Reduce body weight cost much less of RM than reducing bicycle parts weight...unless you loaded with RM! RM! RM! or USD$! USD$! USD$! otherwise, what the heck rite....HAHAHA!