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G Club / SGA G. Sanggul mtb ride 3/1/10

Captain - Posted on 03 January 2010

A few scratches ..

Submitted by KNTXX on Mon, 04/01/2010 - 9:04am.

Hi Danial,

Thanks for your concern. I am ok, with a few scratches on my left leg. Luckily no bruises on my body or any internal injuries.

fun! fun! fun!

Submitted by Daniel Lee on Sun, 03/01/2010 - 11:51pm.

nice to cycling with all G Club members and SGA Group members. I had a wonderful time and challenging moment riding side by side with Captian because he is fast!

fast rider...

Submitted by Captain on Tue, 05/01/2010 - 11:56am.

you fellas laughed at me when i said i came in last because i had to wait for slow riders !!

lucky i got witness now !! now not only i had proven that i know how to fall, i am fast too !!

thank you Daniel.... *grin*

Never realized Mike would

Submitted by turbosnail on Mon, 04/01/2010 - 12:23am.

Never realized Mike would take the group down to the coffee shop at Pulau Betung. But glad to see you really enjoyed the ride!

Hey Captain or anyone Wud you

Submitted by look368 on Sun, 03/01/2010 - 6:26pm.

Hey Captain or anyone

Wud you wan to grade this trail taking into reference those we hv listed. With Kenny nearly ended in the ravine, wud be interesting to know its level of difficulty.

Gertak Sanggul Trail rating

Submitted by Captain on Mon, 04/01/2010 - 11:24am.

after discussing with Sifu, we would rate the above trail as "3" .... it is really not that difficult.

we both also agreed we should not ask Kenny, he rated the trail as 4 or 5... but trust me, if he had tipped over yesterday, he would rate it at 10 !!!!

cheers,

captain

Gertak Sanggul Trail rating

Submitted by KNTXX on Mon, 04/01/2010 - 3:38pm.

It's not because I crash I rate it 4 la (I benchmark it with 1200 steps having a 3 rating), I feel the trail needs more technical skills than 1200 steps as the trail up 1200 steps is much wider and chances of falling off the ravine is less. 1200 steps is more on how good is your stamina cycling uphill, Gertak Sanggul you will need more technical skills and balancing as I see many struggling during the ride and if riders are not careful the consequences are severe.

If I am not mistaken there are also a few more riders who crash their bike during the ride. One of them did fell into the ravine, luckily he is ok.

Just my 2 cents.. or 1 cents..

Captain,

If I had tipped over, maybe no chance to give any ratings..

You are right, I will rate is a 10 for the best off road trail so far in Penang I have been. Lets do it again!!

Gertak Sanggul trail ride

Submitted by stingray on Mon, 04/01/2010 - 5:40pm.

I could not agree more with Kenny. Personally, I think gertak sanggul ride is a trail ride and 1200 steps ride is an on-road ride because accessible for car. The 1200 steps is more like riding a tar road to 84 or 168. Comparing with other rides, I wound rate gertak sanggul 4.0, where 1200 steps 3 & round island 3. If you love trail ride, you will definately love gertak sanggul ride....

It would be great that on every ride, there will be an online poll to rate the ride... then after collecting all the data for the whole year rides, we can tabulate it and list them such as the most favourite ride, challenging ride etc...

Hope to see more riders on teluk bahang ride, ray

ok we take it at rating 3.

Submitted by look368 on Mon, 04/01/2010 - 12:53pm.

ok we take it at rating 3. That means it is almost like 1200 step. So when you guys going next !!

mtb rides

Submitted by Captain on Mon, 04/01/2010 - 1:03pm.

Doc, the question should be, when are you ready for the next mtb ride ???

we are ever ready and we shall allow you to choose the trail !!! fair ??

cheers

A ride never to forget...

Submitted by KNTXX on Sun, 03/01/2010 - 7:03pm.

I would rate the trail to be 4 out of 5 for the level of difficulty especially for the downhill part at the banana plantation. It was a steep downhill and I cashed by bike, having myself thrown and luckily for me, I manage to catch hold of a small tree as I was slidding away into the ravine. A close call for me. Lesson learn, no more pandai pandai sudden stopping for pictures..