The meet up at GP Petronas should be at 8am in the morning.
Normally, traffic should be fine on a Sat morning at 2nd link. I reached 2nd link at around 730am. Who knows there's a jam today and I was stuck in it for at least 30 minutes.
By the time I cleared customs and reach there, it was near to 9am. 1 by 1 the people start coming in and by around 930am, Spectrum decides to send the 1st group to Pagoh first. (There are still a num of ppl stuck in the jam.)
Did the usual briefing.
Once briefing was completed, we took the usual team photo and geared up.
Kes is the lead bike as Spectrum is waiting for the rest to come.
Endless is the designated sweeper.
Motrax & TCY are the last 2 shooters.
Me? Just as I thought I would be riding as per normal, I kena arrowed to be the num 2 bike.
What does the number 2 bike have to do?
No 2 has to make sure the convoy is not following too near to the lead bike. (normally 2 car length behind). He has to be the marker whenever there's a bend or divider so that the convoy doesn't miss the turn/exit.
The lead bike's job is to navigate and control the pace of the convoy.
And so off we went to Pagoh. It is about 150 km away from Gelang Patah. (~1 hour ride away)Traffic was smooth and soon I was marking at the Pagoh exit when Motrax came up to me to inform Kes that there was a super4 low on fuel.
I was like WTF ?? Super4's range should be around 300km.
I joined up with Kes and told him what happened.The last guy is following him slowly on the NSH.
Kes asked me if I know where's the chendol/durian place.
Yup, I know and suddenly I am promoted to be the lead bike. (like army field promotion u know?) Hahahaa... don't ask me y like that lah...
Ok... reached the Chendol stall and it seems like they are just starting to setup the stall... so I brought them to Mr Teh's durian stall.
Does anybody know what is this??
The usual team photo
Everybody's just eating so happily, testing this durian that durian.
Generally, there are 3 types there.
RM$3/kg sweet durians
RM$5/kg bitter durians
RM$18/kg mao shan wang (Mountain Cat Durians) - suppose to be the best
I did not eat any at all.. don't like the feeling of dirtying my hands and no place to clean them.. It's the 3rd durian trip with them and I have not eaten any yet.. haha..
After a while Spectrum and the rest joined up with us.
Motrax, TCY, pplater and me left for the Chendol stall first.
Later the briefing was done at the Chendol stall.
Once it's done, the Hornet team left immediately. Ya, we r very kiasu.
My team is abt the same as last year.
TCY on his Harley Nightster, Motrax on his Hornet 600, FY on his Hornet 900 and me on my Hornet 900.
1st stop, petrol station.
There is suppose to be 1 just beyond the junction.
Motrax hasn't been touring for too long, he turned left once he saw a petrol station sign when we are supposed to go straight. And so we went to a petrol station that's so much further away. Haha..! We will need alot of petrol stops along the way as the Nightster can only do around 150km/tank. Soon we get ourselves back on track on the NSH to the furthest target, Tangkak. We wanted to start from the furthest target and work backwards. Another reason is partly because we are hungry and need to lunch.
Took us awhile in this town... before we found the checkpoint.. the instructions are not exactly that clear too.
1st station - Tangkak Restoran DoDoDo Beef noodles.
Very tasty Beef noodles and soup
3 Big 1 Small
The view outside the shop.
Round 1 was done... and it started raining... so the guys decided to go for round 2...
Round 2 consists of Claypot Beef soup.. very yummy..
After 2 rounds of eating, no one from other group found this stall yet. Hmm....
The rain stopped and we decided to move on.
Next stop - Segamat Airfield
Fairly easy place to locate, it is an active airfield located beside a golf course.
The proof that we were there.
Spotted an iguana. Do we get bonus points for this?
3rd Stop - The white armour of Pagoh
This is an armour vehicle left behind during WWII.
There are a few located in various locations in Pagoh.
Unfortunately, it is in a police station and we don't dare to go in.
Last year we found another model and no, they are not beside each other.
Pic from 2007.
Ok.. 1 more stop and we are done.. Who knows this is the hardest... We even had to stop along the way because... diralang masuk (do not enter) already. Don't wish to go in and get shot at.
So we did a U-turn and restarted again... Even in the town itself, we went round and round and round before we found this place... and guess what.. Bird Nest farm of Yong Peng (#14 shop)
The proof that we were there.
Once done, we went to the RV point which is only 2km away... Yeah!! The backwards plan worked.
Reach there only to discovered that there is nobody there... so are we late or are we early?
Of cos we are early... muwahaha....Sat down, rested and we ate again...
This time it's the Hakka Yong Dao Hu.
The mee is nice...
Waited for sometime before the 2nd group came back... followed by the rest..
And then we had a bad news... Desmond from the NTU riding team had an accident along the NSH.Seems like he was knocked from behind in a hit-n-run accident. We found out that the vehicle is from Kelantan. Not much damage to him except for some scratches and concussion. Luckily some kind Singaporean stopped and bring him back to SGH.
Done with the dinner and off I make my way back to SG.
It's gonna be awhile before I go touring again..
Total distance covered today - 558km
If you want to know how much does 558km cover, take a look at this map.
Pagoh Challenge 3.. Will you be there again next year?
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