Enjoying Life On 2 Wheels: KLMBH Epic '09 Pre Ride

The Kuala Lumpur Mountain Bike Hash (KLMBH) has always been consistent on organising enjoyable monthly hash rides and once a year, the mother of all hash ride, KLMBH Epic Ride on 10th May delivered what it promise.

A big round of applause to HYH and his team for a good all round mountain bike ride.

Today's photo entry will be on the pre ride. The preparation and the night before.

Managed to borrow the Thule cross bar and 2 bicycle racks from Keong and added 2 more bike rack to fit all 4 bikes on the roof. I figured it should not be a problem because we carried the same amount of bike when we went to Taiping. What I forgot was first, it was Ah Yang's car which had better suspension and springs and secondly, there were only 3 guys in the car.

From left (me, Willy, Lee CH and Fendy)

So with 4 bikes (1 darn heavy Kona bike) and the 4 of us in my trusty Proton Wira, we managed to drive all the way to Batang Kali even though the car scrapped its wheel liner whenever we hit a bump.

I didn't realised how small Batang Kali town was until I tried to find a hotel. Googled for it, no luck. Tried Virtual tourist, no luck. Finally used the GPS Map source and searched of hotel POI around the area and a few names came up and they were mainly camp sites. Finally decided on Amberstone Eco Resort as they had a website and the photos of the chalet looked decent. See the screen shot below. Noticed the nice A frame huts on their header.

I should have realised it's like going to a food court. You order the chicken chop because the photo display shows a large juicy chunk of chicken thigh with large amounts of potato fries and coleslaw. When the food finally comes, you still get a chicken thigh but a chicken that was on a diet and you can literally count the number of potato fries.

As you can see from the actual photo of the A frame huts, it is so small that a hobbit should feel real comfortable in it.

Opps, not good for a 1st impression. Luckily we booked the chalet instead of the A frame huts ...or that was what I thought. I somewhat pictured in my mind the word chalet would mean individual structure which had a small hall with 2 rooms since it stated quad sharing in their website. What we got was a tiny room with 2 double decker beds. With our stuffs and bikes in the room, the room was so small that we had to go outside just to change our minds.