Aligned!

The story is simple. The story is unplanned. The story is…

It has been raining all night…. through morning. A ride was planned, as usual to rendezvous at 8.30am – at RnR Sg. Buloh. However the rain persisted until 8.30. By then, Mzac has already called off the ride. But Zack wanted to carry on.

So, there we were as agreed, arriving minutes within each other – Zack was first.

The plan was to exit into Sabak Bernam and perhaps go for mentarang… But while having coffee (and bread for Zack), I mentioned about my lower back pain which I have bee n having for a while now and had become more annoying of late.

Zack suggested doing a “bone alignment” at the place where he had done the same before. Whilst still talking, as always about biking mainly, Zack messaged the “doctor” – Adino Chee, whom according to Zack have proper certification on such matter – setting up an appointment at 11.00am, an hour from then. I nodded in agreement and few minutes after finishing our coffee, we rode out heading towards Sri Kembangan.

Doc Adino operated from his home in Taman Suria Tropika. The two hour session was much to my satisfaction…

In short, my body felt “aligned”… Felt a lot lighter than I could remember… Alhamdulillah…

Almost forgot… while I was undergoing the “treatment”, Razman dropped by. He was supposed to join us for the ride, but had to take a rain check due to the late start. He had another commitment at 12.00noon – and could join us at the “doc” house after his appointment was fulfilled.

This was indeed an unplanned ride. Though not our usual ride to a makan destination, it is still a ride right! 

This biker brother (Azlan) was checking out Zack’s X-Adv as we were about to leave the RnR.

We chatted for a bit. As it turned out, he had a minor stroke earlier in the year as us recovering. He ride the BMW-RT and owned two other bikes. His wife also rides… a FG800GT. 

Anyway, my “treatment” took a little longer than two hours. It was past 1.30pm when we left the docs house. And the sky was getting dark agar in as we rode our respective ways home.

All is well.. :-) 

Truly A Half Day Ride...

Officially, today set a new UOMO record for "Earliest to Get Home From A Ride".  And today is a true, not fake, "half day ride".  I reached home five minutes to twelve noon.  And I'm pretty sure Zack, Mutanic, Mzac and especially Faizal reached their respective homes around the same time.

It has been more than a month since we got together for a ride.  A few rides were planned prior to today, but we could not get a good number of riders.  Most UOMOs were pre-occupied with other things.

As planned, we were already at RnR Dengkil by 8.30am.  Mutanic however misread the RV point and went to Shell in Dengkil town instead.  Well, not a bid deal - he safely arrived ten minutes later, all geared up for a long distance adventure ride !

Mutanic's steed, Adventure-ready!

Today's weather has improved a lot since after the country were hit with the haze situation since more than one month ago.  The haze that originated from palm trees burning in Indonesia has been an annual thingy for the past many years.  While it was still hazy yesterday, today I didn't notice much of it in the air.  And the sun is fully out! ---> translate to a scorching day.

While waiting for Mutianic, we had a drink....

Not exactly sure the exact time, but it was probably around 9.00am when we rode out from the service station at RnR Dengkil heading towards Lenggeng.  Yup, our late breakfast today would at Restoran Nasi Lemak Ikan Semilang Lenggeng - one of our regular place of visit.

Mzac led the pack followed by Faizal.  And these two were bullet fast on the Elite Highway!  So much so I couldn't keep up... hehehehe... Zack was taking a sweeper role at the start of this ride.  But once we exited the highway into Nilai, he took back the lead... as he normally does.

The restaurant had move to a new location (only a few metres away from their old place) along the main road.  I was a bit surprised when Zack did not make a right turn at the Broga road junction.  I thought we were trying out a new makan place.  But as it turned out, our previous trip to the old venue (of Restoran Nasi Lemak Ikan Semilang Lenggeng) is being operated by a different operator.  No wonder they did not have the ikan semilang and gulai telur itik when we visited that time.

Parking of bike can be a bit tricky as this new venue is on the main road.  But not that big a deal as this small town is akin to any quiet village in Malaysia - friendly people.

If anyone were to ask, what is so special about this place?  Well, a simple answer is, getting together having a meal with friends!  Anyway, the food here is also among the best that we have tasted... and their specialty would of course be the restaurant namesake, Nasi Lemak Ikan Semilang.  And the Telur Itik Masak Lemak is slightly better that the one served at Restorang Lomang Apak Kuala Pilah, according to Zack's taste bud (and he knows his stuff!).

Everyone (except me) had rice instead of Nasi Lemak today...

Everyone had the Telur Itik!

Me... Pulut with Telur Itik Masak Lemak + sambal udang... :-)

We chit-chatted away for almost an hour after finishing our meals.  I guess, this is the most valuable part of any outing that we do.  Catching up with each other as well as relevant current issuess (hehehehe).... Not inioning (membawang) mind you.  Just chit-chatting.... :-)

Didn't really look at the time, but it was certainly close to noon time when Mutanic prompted he needed to get back as early as possible.  His family is waiting for him to go back to their hometown in Sabak Bernam...
So, we called it a day and headed back the same route we came (Road N34)... 

Everyone arrived back our respective home just around noon time.... as I said earlier, today is a truly half day ride!

More photos... some from Zack's GoPro Session 5.

Footnote:  Zack's BP reading after the ride therapy... :-)

Thanks For Yet Another Swell Get Together UOMOs !!!

This ride has been on Saturday, 5-October-2019