The Sinkapore jeng hu say going to build Integrated Resort (IR) that is Casino. So in the name of research, we decided to go on a ride to go look see look see our neighbour’s casino at Genting Highlands.
Then at the same time, nearby Genting got this Fraser’s Hill. Heard is also a nice place to ride too. So we decided to also go look see look see.
Ride Plan
Day 1: Fraser’s Hill, Saturday 6 October
22 bikes and 28 people
Gelang Patah, 7.50am -> Exit Ayer Hitam 214, Route 50, Klang town (breakfast and fuel) -> Ayer Keroh R&R (fuel) -> Exit 214, E6->Sungei Buloh R&R (fuel and lunch) ->
Exit Tanjung Malim 121, Route 1, Route 55, Fraser’s Hill base(fuel) ->
Fraser’s Hill top, Silver Resort->/Dinner/
Day 2: Genting Highlands, Sunday 7 October
15 bikes and 17 people
/Treking at Fraser’s Hill/-> Fraser’s Hill ->
Route 55, Route 8 -> “Karak Highway” E8 ->
Exit Genting Sempah R&R (lunch) -> “Awana” ->
Genting Highlands, First World Hotel -> /Dinner and walkabout/
Day 3: Route ???9, Monday 8 October 14, 2007
15 bikes and 17 people
/Casino and Roller Coaster Ride/ -> Genting Highlands ->
Genting Sempah-> Karak Highway E8 -> Route 2 /lunch at Karak town/ ->
Route 9 (The Best Cornering Route in Malaysia) -> Tampin, North South Highway ->
Singapore
Breakfast at Klang
Rider Bornfree lead us to Klang town via Route 50, to have breakfast at this kopi tiam.
The toast, nasi lamak and coffee are nice at this Kluang town kopi tiam.
But the railway station boh lang one.
Kena police roadblock again
Suay, kena Malaysia traffic police roadblock. Should have known. A few days ago, some minister there complaint motorcycles ride too fast on the northsouth highway.
So the police there lan lan got to work liao and setup road block on northsouth highway.
I ride into KL city alone
Our plan was to take the expressway (E6) that skirt around the outside of KL city. It avoids the expressway running straight through KL city which would encounter heavy traffic.
There were some confusion by some of our riders when riding as to which is the correct exit to take to go E6 (the correct exit is take the left turn of Exit 214). I was concerned that some riders might have mistakenly gone straight into KL city instead. So I decided to split off from the group and go on my own to search for any strayed riders inside KL city and then to regroup at Sungei Buloh R&R.
As I ride into KL city, it was rather confusing. Worse, the traffic was very bad. The double-lane expressway is packed full of slow-crawling cars. Thee expressway is so narrow that my STX1300 got problem filtering in between.
I rode through don’t know how many Es before finally managing to clear myself out of KL town. The good thing is that there were no strayed riders other than myself.
I parked my bike along the road shoulder.
We chit-chatted for a while.
He was so amazed it cost so much for a bike. He called out to all his fellow workers there on his new discovery.
Other things I learnt is the refurbishment of that stretch of Northsouth, after KL and before Fraser’s Hill, takes 6 months. And in Malaysia, it is not one single company that would undertake the whole refurbishment. Every 10km is done by a different company. Now I finally understood why different stretches of NorthSouth highway has varying quality to the tarmac.
The Ride up Fraser’s Hill
I rejoined the group without incident. We exit at Tanjug Malim Exit 121. We fill up at the Shell station before starting our ride up to Fraser’s Hill. There is no petrol kiosk at the top of Fraser’s Hill.
While fueling up, a FZ1’s horn ki xiao and started to sound by itself. BOOOORRRRR!!! The bike’s ignition key was not even inserted. Probably the rain “sock” the electronics. Good thing the self-horning horn decided to shut itself up after a while, if not we would have to ride all the way up with one noisy FZ1.
Raymond's transparent rain coat.
It's not cheap ok. Cost $90. Why so expensive?
Because got 2 use. First use is can wear when raining.
Second use is can wear when you want to arouse your partner. Partner confirm steam one.
The route up Fraser’s Hill got Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 one.
Up Fraser's Hill Part 1
The first part, which is at the base, consist of long sweeping turns and you can see majestic views of surrounding mountains.
Feels like flying through air-con. Shiok!
Long-sweeping turns in the middle of greenary.
Feast for the eyes. Cooling for your skin. Your bike's engine growl below you.
We are up alone up here. With no one to disturb us.
Set in this quiet Fraser’s Hill, there is one sophisticated alien-looking dam. If you ride there should take a look.
Dune. What is that alien-like structure in the distance in the middle of the picture?
It is a water dam at Fraser’s Hill.
But most dams are straight walls. This dam is got different pattern one. It is doughnut shaped. Can’t tell that black hole in the middle goes how deep. Note the wooden logs that got stuck at the edge of the top of the dam.
Beautiful scenary of the surrounding peaks.
Cloud-shrouded mountains in the distance. Angels must live in some of them.
Cloud feels like just over your head.
Tranquil water. Feel the peace up at Fraser's Hill.
Panaroma view of the surrounding.
Up Fraser's Hill Part 2
The second part of the ride up Fraser’s Hill, which forms bulk of the ride, consist of tight twisting bends that curl around and up the waist of Fraser’s Hill.
The lane is very very narrow. And there are some A-shaped hairpins. So we can only ride at 20-30kmh, single file, most of the time at 1st to 2nd gear. Think of the South Buena Vista road of Singapore, but going uphill and with poorer road quality.
Tight corners and tight road. Single file.
Rolling back in low first and second gear.
Turn after turn.
Tight upward sloping A-shaped hairpins.
The road is two-way. Although there are very few traffic, there are vehicles coming down as we rode up. A few times, we encounter big trucks that ferry supplies up and down Fraser’s Hill. When they traverse the bends, they would eat into our lanes and we got to siam to one side to get out of their way.
There is also not much scenary to look at. Anyway, the road is so narrow and tight that I have to keep my eyes focus on the road. And as I ride, every few turns, I need to swallow saliva to clear my ear blocks from the change in atmosphere pressure as we ascend.
And after riding awhile, as we are riding so slowly, we start to bunch up. Thinking back, this is actually rather dangerous. Some more the road was damn from the earlier rain and from the cloud. If one bike make a mental mistakes doing one of the what, more than 100 corners, and fall down on the lane, we would end up with a pile up.
There were 4 other riders that set off later from Singapore, make their own way up Fraser’s Hill and meet us at the top. While we ride these narrow bends in a darkening evening sun, they rode up in the night. There are no lamp posts along the way.
Otherwise, this is what you will see if you ride up Fraser's Hill at night.
View from the 4 riders' who set off later.
The Gap.
After the narrow bends, there is a house called the Gap. The food is supposed to be nice there. But when we reached there, it was closed.
Up Fraser's Hill Part 3
My bike, Vice, at Fraser's Hill.
Turn left to go up to the top.
The last part of Fraser’s Hill, the road is single lane and single direction.
From two-direction road become one-direction.
At first, not use to it.
We finally reached the top of Fraser’s Hill at about 6 pm.
Just follow the signs to reach the hotel that you have booked. For Silver Resort, I called over the telephone to reserve. Pay only when you check out. There are other hotels up there too.
We booked the two-bedroom studio/suite. Each studio has two bedrooms, one living room, two toilets and kitchen. Each bedroom has two beds. Each room cost 225 rm/night.
Our rooms have nice view.
Unfortunately, 25% of our rooms have defects. Electric heater not working lah. Lights not working lah. Toilet cannot flush lah.
And got no telephone in the rooms. So I got to walk to the reception building to tell them to solve these problems.
But it's cannot walk. Must run one.
Because it is already dark, it got colder and the wind got chilly.
And some of us cannot wait for the repairman to come and fix their water heater and went to shower with heater. I don’t know how they do it. This reminded me of my army training in Taiwan last time.
We went for dinner at the “town centre”. There is only one town centre and it is a short walk from the hotel or a 2 minutes ride. The Restoran Hill View served rather nice zhi char food. Or maybe we were cold and hungry.
Dinner at the Restoran Hill View at the town centre.
Just in time to join us for dinner.
Good thing, most of the defects were corrected by the time we returned from dinner. We bought coke, pepsi and vodka from a grocery store in the town centre.
After dinner, we have Happy Hour and fun at one of our rooms.
The firewater (vodka) feels warm and good in the cold on top of Fraser's Hill.
To be continued in Part 2 and 3.
6 comments:
So whats the amount fined? I was lucky never to have kena those REAL road blocks with REAL bookings! Hopefully this will stay the same for the coming 3NCR!
Ya, REAL roadblocks over there are very rare indeed.
I never go see the amount leh.
Because may never ever need to pay one :)
hey, just wondering, how do you take those nice photos of the route and scenery while riding? you fixed an onboard camera or just park one side and take? Very nicely taken... =)
cheers,
friedfishz
Hi FriedFishz,
I took those rider's view photos by riding with one hand.
My right hand controls throttle and apply countersteering.
My left hand operates the camera.
I use either a normal digital camera, or for most of the time, my handphone Sony Ericsson K750i.
In order to have the finger dexterity to operate the camera, I ride without glove on my left hand.
One other thing, I sling the camera around my neck using one of those common handphone camera lanyards.
This way, when I see something interesting coming up, I can quickly snatch the camera up, open it and shoot. Then I shut the camera cover and just drop it and it rests on my chest. My bike's windshield minimise the windblast so the camera doesn't really flap to the rear.
With this technique, I am able to take many photos that other people are unable to :) I can even shoot in the middle while cornering, such of those cornering photos you just saw in Fraser's/Genting ride :)
But I don't recommend using my technique as it does increases your risk level.
Wow... really risky to take pictures like that! lol... but I used to do that when I was on my Super4. Can't do that on the Busa now though.
So my next better idea would be to bring my pillion along so she can snap for me! :D
yup that really requires a lot of skills... haha... let me train up on my ability of handling my busa with 2 hands before I contemplate with 1 hand.... hehe...
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