RIDE WITH CHIEF MINISTER (PENANG)

We have successfully completed the round island category ride. A total distance of 80km with 2 giant hills to conquer. (Bukit Genting & Teluk Bahang)

No major accident and all sitiawan riders safely arrived at finish line.

the night before...

It was the day everyone waiting for….the round penang island event of the total of 80km in distance.

I, Yong, Kong Hing, Kwong Yew, Kumar, Anuar, Hamid and the gang representing Sitiawan is going to complete this round island event. “Ride with Chief Minister Campaign) organized by PBB Club of Penang.

Saturday, 24 Oct – As we going by separate car, we decided to go by ourself before meeting up with the rest of that gang in Penang. G Hotel is our destination to pick up our ride no & goodies bag. As I and Yong were travelling from Sitiawan to destination, Kumar, Anuar and Hamid the gang had arrived earlier to collect their goodies bag. We begin our journey at 2.45pm and arrived at 1926 Heritage Hotel in Penang at around 5pm. We check-in and drive ourself to G-Hotel.

A lot of participant had collected their ride number & t-shirt. We check our name and discovered that our ride no had been taken by someone. We only manage to pick up Kwong Yew and Kong Hing ride number. I begin to worry and calling Kumar, Anuar and Hamid, I’m hoping they might be already picking up me and Yong ride number. The luck doesn’t shine on me either as no one picking up my number. I double check with Ronnie(race captain) and together we begin to locate our ride number.

We waited for 20mins before Ronnie(race captain) found our ride number mixed up with other participant. He had remove it from the main group and set it aside to be pick-up. Fuhhh…what a relief, luckily I and Yong manage to get our ride number. Otherwise, we will intend to ride without them tomorrow.

After the collection, we went back to 1926 Heritage Hotel (our stay) and unloading the bikes. We rest and around 7.15pm, Sam Koay(UMW Regional Sales Manager) also a friend of Yong taking us for a great dinner (carbo loading) for the night. Kwong Yew and Kong Hing arrived
and together we go supper at around 9pm.

After a long chit-chatting with good laugh and jokes, we sleep at around 11.30pm.

Ride day stories ahead….