Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Ride to Kota Bharu

During the long weekend, myself and 16 other friends had a nice ride to Kota Bharu, Kelantan. The ride was planned in Nov 08, after our ride to Cameron Highlands. The preparation for this ride has been frantic as we had a good 2 months or so to prepare ourselves (mentally) for the ride. I for one, actually looking forward for the ride as it's been awhile since I last had a very, long ride (more than 600kms).

We started our journey from BP Petrol station right after the Gombak Toll Plaza at about 0730am last Saturday. Thank God that almost everyone arrived on time except for 3 other riders who rode from Johor earlier. We were supposed to start our journey at 735am but due to some technical matters, we only managed to shoot-off at 745am.


It was quite a sight to see 16 other big bikes on the Lebuh-Raya Pantai Timur and everyone was very discpline and maintained our speed according to the speed limit. Hehehehe.


Our first stop was at the RnR Temerluh. We reached there rather early so almost every took the opportunity to have a quick bite, smoko & the customary visit to the loo.


After a quick refuel, we were on the road again to Gambang. Another quick stop at the Gambang petrol station then we continued our journey to Kemaman town.





At Petronas Kemaman, we met a biker group who called themselves as Reaper MG. We had a quick chat with them and about 15 minutes later we continued our journey to have our lunch stop at Pantai Kemasik for sotong goreng tepung!! Yum Yum!!






After lunch and Zohor Prayers, we continued our journey for the next stop, which is Kuala Terengganu. Unfortunately, a fellow biker's bike ran into a minor problem(cable clutch putus!!) so I had to turn back to Dungun town to buy 2 vespa's cable clutch (which costs RM5). He was lucky that I managed to find one workshop that was opened that day. Hahaha.

We were there for about an hour so I sent an SMS to the rest of the guys to wait for us somewhere. We continued our journey and made a stop at Pantai Kelulut for a nice air kelapa and fresh keropok lekoR!!! Yum Yum!!!





We were at Pantai Kelulut for about an hour or so as we were not be able to continue our journey as we received the news that the rain is falling heavily at KT. So we took the time to have a quick nap, kutuk2 session and name-calling session. Hahahaha. That was fun. I think we ordered RM10 worth of keropok lekor (which was a lot) and I can't remember the amount of teh tarik we ordered that day.

Anyhoos, we continued our journey to the next petronas station at KT and proceeded to Penarik via KT town. KT was a bit packed that day as I think everyone took the time off from the long weekend to head back to their hometowns. I found that there are a lot of traffic lights in KT town. Urghhhh!! I hate it as I can't squeeze through during heavy traffic!! Hahahahah





From there (Penarik), we had to wait for a friend to come to fetch us. Again, another stop/smoko/kutuk2 session. Hahaha. We waited for about half an hour then he came with his naked bike. AFter few cigarettes and laughter, we continued our journey with Jimmy as the lead man. He took us through jalan kampung which was very dark and it was raining as hell! At one point most of us decided to give up and had to make a quick stop at a nearby petrol station. He said that the place we are going is about an hour's away. An hour's away? Damn!! It was freezing cold and the rain was falling heavily!!

Anyway, when the rain stops, we continued our journey through the back roads of Kelantan. I swear, if was to be left alone on that road, I will never be able to get out!! Hahahahah I saw a woman with red top and green sarung during our journey through the jalan kampung but luckily few other guys saw the girl too!! Hahaha.

We finally managed to reached our final stop for the day at Pasir Tumboh, Kelantan. It's a nice cosy guesthouse and it's about RM80 per room. One room can accomodate 4 person! So that's like RM20 per person! Very cheap! We arrived there shortly after 930pm!! Imagine, we started our journey at 0745am and reached KB at 0930pm. That's like 14 hours on the road!! Hahahaha

After a quick visit to the loo at the guesthouse, all of us decided to head straight to a siamise restaurant nearby. THe food was excellent I must say as we ordered various kinds of foods. Padprik belut, ikan 3 rasa, padrpik ayam, tomyam yang best sekali, telur dadar, kengsom, mee goreng basah, etc...I had to tambah my nasik as the food was soooo good. Maybe because all of us were hungry after what we had to endured during our ride from Penarik to KB.





After dinner, it was time for us to hit the bed!! Unfortunately, due to some mixed and some minute problems, about 7 of us stayed at Pasir Tumboh guesthouse and the other 9 need to have another short ride to Wakaf Che Yeh guesthouse. Luckily the ride was only 20 minutes or so. Anyway, for us at Pasir Tumboh, after a nice shower, we had a quick chat before hitting the bed. Damn!!...It was one hell of ride!!!

Have a nice day

Note: The pictures are taken by my good friend Dodi.

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