The Great Outdoors

Broga, 1st ride of the year!

It's the beginning of the year and we just got back from Parit Buntar and the legs are itching to ride. It is already 2 weeks since we last ride.

Usually when we don't have any plans for rides, we head to 2 places, either Genting Peras or Broga. For this week, we just wanted a leisure paced ride and Broga is easier among the 2, so Broga it is.

Since Susanna is trying out her new Bannard mini velo, we also brought out our velos. Last used was in Sepang ride. The moment after mounting and riding, it seems effortless riding the lighter velos compared to the folding bikes. We started off after everyone is ready.

We hit the kampong or village secondary roads after a kilometer from the town. We actually prefers this route as you hardly see any cars on this roads. It passes through residential houses and plantations with lots and lots of fresh air and green scenery. We even passed through pineapple plantations and also paddy fields!

With such cooling condition, sweat seems to have trouble coming out of our pores. It was already 12 kilometers and there was still no sweat! The pace is OK, ranging from 18 km/h to a faster 23 km/h.

We reached Mantin in just 90 minutes after we started off! We did not take the off road section today but took the tarmac. We ride along and after a while we came back to the same spot where the offroad will leads us to if we did ride that route.

We stopped at a local eatery along the route back to Broga. Just some laughs and jokes but no food! 

Broga is 25 kilometers away from Mantin and we reached the rubber estate road, one which is call Jalan Kg. Kapal. This is a very nice route to ride, quiet, breezy, air is fresh and most importantly, NO CARS!

We reach the back of the temple at 10.30am and it was still early but Chris has to struggle a bit for this last climb as he did not ride a bike for 2 months already! Look how's he struggling in the picture.

Finally our reward for riding. The 'ice kacang' and the 'pan mian' is the best and most known food here but today, I am opting for 'chicken rice' and also the honey lemon drink. I had two..........

Melaka is on and Chris, our local melaka boy will leads us next round...........till then!