This is the weekend which we planned to travel to Plentong, Johor for the Jamboree. We were approached by one Malaysian friend Ipoh Leong who’s currently working in Singapore which he planned to introduce his weekend mountain bike training ground for us to see. It was proven to be such a memorable ride with good weather, good food and good company as well. All thanks to his well planning, we had so much fun during this weekend.
We travel to Johor on Friday night and rest for several hours and started our journey to Singapore in the early morning. We were wondering is it really worthwhile for our time and gas to drive all the way to Singapore for a morning ride an then back to Johor to prepare for Sunday’s Jamboree. But since Ipoh Leong has already planned and found out so much information for us, so we just go for it.
He met us at Kranjit Station in Singapore and we drove to Zhenghua Park for the start. The weather that day was super nice. Leong also brought along his other two training buddies to lead us for this ride. I felt really appreciated on his effort to try to show us this training ground. It was such a well groomed well maintained trail without any rubbish lying anywhere at all, very clean as expected in Singapore.
Next we cycle and reach Bukit Timah Nature Reserve and there we met with lots of runners and a bunch of Singaporean Mountain Bikers whom are also starting there. Immediately we ad to climb some rocks to go up, after not cycling for long then we reach some huge stone formation, this is such a nice scenery. Some people were doing rock climbing there as well.
We keep cycling till we reach Dairy Farm Nature Park, I guess these parks were inerlink to one another, so cyclists were able to connect all the trails together and do loop training. Then we enter into Marina Reservoir. This section of the trail is quite technical with tracks lay out using huge tree trunks to add on elements to this trail. Then we reach the reservoir, the scenery was so nice, so breath taking. But I lost my smile due to the pedal bang onto my shin again.
A total distance of 45km for the day, all thanks to Ipoh Leong and his friends. I think for people who cycle in Malaysia will be quite amazed on how Singaporeans manage their trails. Singapore is a small country, I bet they don’t have a lot of places to choose for Mountain Biking so they try to conserve on what they have and train hard on it. That’s why Malaysian should take great care on the trails that they have and should be more greatful for it plus to maintain them well.
arrive at the start of the parks
start of the trail of the park
trails so well built
steep stair climb
arrive at the forest reserve
start at a rock climb
arrive to giant rocks formation
so nuice view
relazing cycling inside trails
arive dairy farm trail
arrive to the dam
well maintained trails
build technical ups n downs by using tree trunks
resevoir view
so nice inside the trails
superb resevoir view
trails are so clean n well maintained
the water is sooooo clean
water so clean but i lost my smile as my pedal bang onto my shin again
like cycling under green shade
cycling under green shadow
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