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| NUIKAR SUNDAY RIDE !! SG. SEDIM TRAIL ON MARCH 25,2001 SUNGAI SEDDDIIIIIIMMMMM!!!!!!!� That was what I shouted when Richard Lee said that Sim Cycles of Air Itam invited us to join the KORTs for a ride up Sg. Sedim Then I remembered Turbo Snails journals (KORTS) mentioning leeches. Aaw! No problem what�.leeches, biasak la��.!!! That Sunday morning, the Nuikars met at Bridge Toll parking and proceeded to the BKE Shell to meet the other riders. We stopped at Karangan for a quick breakfast of Roti Canai and drinks. After Karangan, we followed Azmi and found ourselves on a Tarmac Kampung Road. It was quite a drive. Upon reaching Sg. Sedim, I can hear the roar of the rapids and couldn�t wait to see what the water was like. After assembling our machines and wearing our protective gears (minimum), we decided to have a photograph session. It was the Nuikars, the Korts, the AID group and the Vipers group. I counted and found at least 42 riders (if I�m right, I flung my maths!). We started the ride and went over a small stream with a small bridge. Immediately after the crossing, there was this climb which seemed to be a bit technical from a distance. However, as there was a big queue, most riders pushed their mean machines up the climb. We then cycle and found the trail to be very undulating. The track was a bit wet, maybe it rained last night, of course it rain! We were cycling initially through bushes and amongst trees. We then came across a small stream where we had to dismount from our mean machines, carry them and wade the stream. It was happy riding until we came to a turn off and rode on Tarmac for a short distance. Then we were riding amongst the rubber trees (or was it some other tree, I forgot!!! ) SUDDENLY !!!!, There was this awesome looking short downhill ! After gazing at the track I wanted to take, swallowed a lot of saliva to get me to ride down, I released my brake levers. Hey, it wasn�t that bad! After this , the ride was up down, up down, of course la�with some level trail. I was enjoying the ride until the climbs were getting steeper and steeper. We were riding and we came across a fallen tree. The trunk was blocking the road! I thought, that�s it, time to turn back, end of the trail! But I was wrong, we had to cross the trunk. I was looking for the other Nuikars, I only saw Lawlee and sometimes Sim or Richie would be with me. Richard and Andy were nowhere to be seen! Those two devils are sure damn fast!!! ST insisted that I join his group to go up the waterfall�.another climb�..about 1 click! Man! I was the only Nuikar to follow the KORT�s Theng Kars! We went up the climb. It had about four climbs, two of them a bit technical, I pushed up this climb! heh heh ! Hey ! I wasn�t alone! We had a few downhills and crossed a small ravine with a bridge made of wooden sticks! We then arrived at something that looked like a technical downhill. It was covered with ruts and roots were running across it. I downhilled, couldn�t believed it, I made it �.!!! I heard a loud thunderlike sound and after dropping my bike, saw this awesome looking waterfall. It is Kg. Sedim�s water catchments area After some photographs session, we pushed our machines up the DH that was mentioned earlier. We cycled to the fork where I and the other Nuikars parted. The ride back was fun, a little bit of gentle downhilling. Let me tell you folks, that ride was one of the best ride I ever rode! It was fun, got my adrenalin flowin� , two leech bites, and my bike covered with mud the way it has never been covered before ! |
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