Pawana Riders @ BM Jamboree

Semalam K.JAMIS bertemu dgn seorang blogger Zeiman50 (PENANG MTB). Khabarnya dia mempunyai semua gambar2 menarik dr cameraman di setiap selekoh dan penjuru trek semasa kita berjamboree tempoh hari. Semasa kita berkayuh, kalau semua perasan, ada byk cameraman dgn camera yg canggih2 kat tepi jalan tu…K.JAMIS telah mendapatkannya semalam dan terdapat banyak jugak gambar2 Pawana Riders yg berjaya dirakamkan. Jom kita layan gambar2 menarik Pawana Riders yg telah disaring daripada 4000 lebih gambar.

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The Map

Serang!!!...

De Facto Leader

De Facto Leader

De Facto Junior

Pak Dam T-Bolto Al-Mata Ayeri

Pak Dam T-Bolto Al-Mata Ayeri

Raif Turbo

Raif Turbo

Kencho

Kencho

K.Jamis

K.Jamis

Jan Giant

Jan Giant

Lee the Grinder

Lee the Grinder

Zuhai Ida Pearl

Zuhai Ida Pearl

Ajiliza

Massaro T-Bolto Orengo

Suhairi Hasaro
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Ni plak gambar geng2 MTB yg seiring dengan perjalanan Pawana Riders sepanjang ditubuhkan disamping beberapa koleksi riders di hari Jamboree..

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WOW!!!..Sexy Ladies

Zeiman50

Kecacatan bukan penghalang...semangat kental sebagai bekalan..

Superkid

Mat Komando

Wan Merida Gold

Mesti semua ingat dgn dia ni...selalu bawak tongkat nk halau anjing time naik Bukit Carpet

Pak Nasir

Pak Man... Usia bukan penghalang...

Albert - Ozone Bicycle Shop

Lim Bicycle Shop

More Pictures :

http://picasaweb.google.com/pawanarider/PawanaRidersBMJamboree#

BM Jamboree Pre-assessment

While BM Jamboree is just around the corner; alot of training activities had get started in these recent couple of weeks, some may even have a regular daily training.

If you are able to wake up early on weekend morning, then try to spend some time outside, you may observe that nowadays alot more people are going out for a refreshing morning cycling exercise. It is more obvious around the area of Sungai Ara, Balik Pulau, Teluk Bahang, Penang Hill, Air Itam Dam and Mount Eskine. This kind of scenario is very encouraging, where people are more concious about their health and indirectly help to reduce the air pollution; however, please becareful when you are cycling on the road, we are still at the mercy of those Penangites who still do not know the courtesy of the road.

Nevertheless, Pawana Riders has also aggresively arranged for more training with tougher trail and challenging terrain each week. Everyone is looking forward for the D-day to come, BM Jamboree on 9th November 2008.

Questions that we might be asking ourself:

• How well are we prepared for this coming Jamboree?
• What can we expect during the race?
• Is it dangerous?
• Is it a technical ride or endurance ride?
  

Pawana Riders may not have all the answers for the questions above; however, as much as we can, we did some studies from the internet as well as from the sharing of those experianced rider who might have been regulary riding around BM. From these information, Pawana Riders try to digest it and share with all. We can not guarantee the accuracy of this information, and it just serve as a reference only.

The intention of the sharing is purely for a better preparation of each riders, so that everyone can safely complete the jamboree with joy and fun.

Below is the terrain view of the upcoming BM Jamboree. The starting point should be somewhere around Jalan Sungai Lembu with the first 5 KM of street cycling before exit from Jalan Kolam into Kampung Teluk Bukit for the adventurous offroad cycling.

From Kampung Teluk Bukit, riders will go thru all the up hills and down hills until they reach Mengkuang Dam, where it is expected to be an easy ride of 5km by cycling surrounding Mengkuang Dam. Even thought it is a flat terrain, but it could turn into a very challenging muddy trail if weather is too weat. In fact, it looks like raining season in Penang recently.

From Kampung Mengkuang Ulu, riders will be entering the next "Twin Peak" adventure. The Peaks reaching most 400m and 325m from the sea level respectively. Usually, this is the time when riders staminal, focus, endurance and knowledge will be tested. The path is learnt to be partly simen rendered and narrow, especially during the down hill.

So, please ensure you select the right tires, effective breking system, great balancing and most importantly respect for each others. Remember, this is just a Jamboree, not a Tournament nor Olympic, please do not put yourself and other rider's safety at risk.

Then, if you are able to pass thru this "Twin Peak", the end point is just a few kilometers away. Don't give up, just complete it. From the very rough analysis, the total distance is around 30km, but we believe it could be more.

We try to put the whole Jamboree trail into a different perspective, hope that it is useful to you and for your better understanding.

There will be more to come as and when we have the latest update.....please stay tuned.

Beijing Olympic 2008 The Mountain Bike Cross-country Races

The Mountain Bike Cross-country races concluded the cycling events at the olympics in Beijing, with both the women and the men racing on Saturday, with the heat and humidity causing many to wilt. Julien Absalon (France) is the first man to successfully defend his Olympic title, while Sabine Spitz (Germany) became the third woman to win the gold medal. The new Olympic champions were the dominant riders in both races, leading from the first lap. Sabine Spitz (Germany) took the women's title, while Julien Absalon (France) became the first man to successfully defend the Olympic mountain bike title. The weather was possibly the best seen thus far in Beijing for the Games, with blue skies, a slight breeze and temperatures in the low 90s. The ground was almost completely dried out from the soaking two days earlier (which had postponed the women's race for a day, leaving a hard and fast track. The women did six laps and the men eight on the 4.5 kilometre course.

Georgia Gould (USA) took the early lead as the field of 30 riders hit the first climb, with favourites Marie-Helene Premont (Canada), Spitz, world champion Marga Fullana (Spain) and Irina Kalentieva (Russia) all in the top ten. The Chinese duo of Ren Chengyuan and Liu Ying were both caught up in a crash towards the back of the field at the start, but started to make their way up to the front within a lap, with Liu sporting a bloody knee.

Premont and Fullana went to the front on the first long climb, but Spitz was already surging, passing them both and moving into the lead by the end of the lap. The 2003 world champion had a 21 second gap over a group containing Premont, Fullana, Kalentieva and Maja Wloszczowska (Poland). Catharine Pendrel (Canada), the winner of the last World Cup before the Games was also moving to the front, just eight seconds down on the chase group. Gunn-Rita Dahle-Flesjaa (Norway), the defending champion, was struggling back in midfield, and would drop out on lap four.
So far, it could have been almost any World Cup, with a lone leader chased by the rest of the serious contenders. However, the race dynamic changed drastically, when Premont dropped out on lap two and Fullana a lap later.
"I was feeling very good on the first lap; my legs felt good, I felt perfect," Premont said afterwards. "On the second lap I had to stop because of riders in front of me on the steep downhill, and walk it. When I got back on my bike, my pulse was very high and I could not breathe properly, even after I stopped. It is only the second time I have ever quit a race, but this was my health, I couldn't do anything else."
Fullana said the problem was from the previous night, "I didn't feel very well, I had a bit of a stomach problem, and so I was not having my best day. It was not the heat, it was not the weather, I was just having a bad day, so I decided to quit after the second lap."

Spitz continued to power away from her rivals at the front, with Wloszczowska moving into second and Pendrel joining her, and with Kalentieva and Liu just behind them. But the gap was already approaching a minute, so it was fast becoming a race for the remaining medal spots.

By lap three Wloszczowska had pulled away from Pendrel and Kalentieva for a solid lock on the silver medal, with the Canadian and Russian battling it out for the bronze. Pendrel was leading by a few seconds, but Kalentieva always had her in sight, and looked to be waiting for the opportune moment to pounce.
That moment didn't come until the last lap, when Pendrel fumbled a shift, allowing the 2007 world champion to get by and claim the final medal, by a slim nine second margin.


"Irina and I were together for most of the last lap. There was one little 'popper' climb before the final descent, and I made an error there. I tried to downshift to my granny [gear] on the steepest part, and had to put my foot down, and that's when she got by me. It hurts, but it was still a fantastic ride for me, and I feel that I didn't lose third, I won fourth."
For Spitz it was an extremely gratifying win. "I felt pure joy that I had finally achieved this goal after so many years of hard work. Winning the gold medal at the Olympics is the crowning glory of a career.""Almost from the beginning I was able to be at the front and set the speed of the race. This meant that I was able to set my own rhythm, and ride my own race."
Wloszczowska saw her silver as vindication for a few seasons of struggling. "This year and the last one were not what I expected or planned for, after medals in 2004 and 2005. Last year I had many crashes, because I think I wanted too much to be at the front all the time. This year was also a problem for me, because I made mistakes and overtrained. But always the focus was Beijing, and I did all I could to get my best form for here."
Mary McConneloug was the top American finisher, with a solid seventh place, 5:23 behind Spitz. Georgia Gould was one spot behind her, in eighth.
"Oh my God, it was really hot!" exclaimed McConneloug. "In these conditions you can't go too hard off the front, or the heat will take its toll. I was saving my legs for the last few laps, and it paid off; I was hoping for top ten, but seventh feels like the top of the world."



by Rob Jones/Canadian cyclist
http://www.mbaction.com

BM Jamboree

Sambungan dari penulisan blog yang terdahulu pada bulan Julai, kini pendaftaran kemasukan penyertaan untuk BM Jamboree sudah ditutup. Walaupun yang demikian, masih ramai lagi yang masih merayu kepada AJK agar penerimaan penyertaan dibuka. Difahamkan, budget untuk Jamboree ini agar terhad, terutamanya kos pembikinan jersey agar tinggi, justeru itu AJK BM Jamboree terpaksa menghadkan bilangan peserta kali ini.

Setakat ini, sudah ada sebanyak 617 orang peserta telah berdaftar, walaupun pada awalnya dikatakan hanya 500 penyertaan akan diterima. Syabas diucapkan kepada para AJK BM Jamboree atas keberkesanan promosi mereka. Diharapkan komen-komen pada SP Jamboree yang lalu akan dijadikan iktibar untuk AJK BM Jamboree, agar penyediaan Jamboree kali ini akan lebih rapi, terancang and kepentingan keselamatan para pengayuh lebih diutamakan.

Yang lebih mengembirakan lagi, terdapat sebanyak 17 peserta yang telah berdaftar nama dibawah panji PAWANA RIDERS. Ini semestinya sesuatu yang amat memberangsangkan. Pujian harus diberikan kepada setiap satu peserta atas keberanian and tekad untuk menyahut cabaran aktiviti lasak ini. Berikut adalah senarai nama terkini:

SP Mountain Biking Jamboree 10hb August 2008

Setelah berminggu-minggu berlatih and berpecah peluh, akhirnya tarikh 10hb August pun tiba juga..... Sungai Petani Mountain Bike Jamboree.

Malam sebelum pertandingan, memang amat teringin nak tidur awal. Selepas makan malam, masuk bilik pukul 10pm, namun 2 jam atas katil tak terlena juga. Excited sangat, bermacam-macam benda muncul dalam fikiran, risau tentang kayuhan, risau pasal strategi, risau pasal beskal and lain lain lagi. Bangun, telan setengah biji pil selsema, lepas tu tidur smooth saja...

Tepat pukul 4 pagi, alarm clock berdering..... bangun! Lepas berkemas, turun settle beskal dan masukkan ke dalam kereta. Bertolak ke Bayan Baru Petronas station untuk berkumpul dengan Raif, Zuhai and Wan. Tak sampai 5am, sekalian kawan pun sampai, setiap satu memang nampak segar bersemangat. I dok fikir kalau bukan pasal Jamboree ni, siapa nak bangun pagi-pagi buta ni. Setiap seorang mesti sudah banyak berkorban masa, wang and tenage demi Jamboree ni, tak mungkin nak lepaskan begitu saja..... tiba-tiba I terasa semangat yang amat membara.

Slowly, kami pun bertolak ke destinasi.... Sungai Petani. Lebih kurang pukul 6am, kami pun sampai ke station minyak sejurus keluar dari tol SP Selatan. Kelihatan ada kumpulan kumpulan beskal yang lain berkeliaran di sekitar bandar raya Army ni.....
Kami bersinggah sekejap untuk bersarapan pagi, setiap satu order nasi lemak dengan milo panas. Terima Kasih kepada Abang Raif Turbo kerana belanja kami sarapan yang memang sedap and berkhasiat ni... percayalah, kalau tak ambil nasi lemak tu, memang tak jadi nak complete sampai titik penamat semasa pertandingan.....

Sejurus bersarapan, kami bertolak to rumah Marshal kami, encik Amry, adapun lebih terkenal dengan panggilan Ida SP..... Namun, pencarian rumahnya tak berapa lancar, selepas beberapa pusingan di Taman Puteri Jaya, sampai kena "sound" dari pengawai rukun tetangga Indai yang tak bertauliah, baru nak phone Amry mintak tolong....

Sampai kat rumah Amry, kami pun mula bersiap-sedia dengan peralatan, pakaian and jentera-jentera yang akan menemani kami mengharungi cabaran di Jamboree ini. Amat berterima kasih kepada seisi keluarga Amry yang sudi menjemput kami and memberikan ruang untuk persiapan kami berempat. Selain itu, ada juga disajikan dengan bihun, sandwich dan Milo panas.

"PAWANA RIDERS" , perkataan yang amat jelas and ganas terpapar di hadapan jersey kami. Memang menyerlah jauh dari yang biasa. Sepantas kilat, kami semua menukar and memakai jersey ni. Kalau sejak dulu, kami dok lihat jersey ni dari kaca komputer and internet sahaja, dok bincang pasal jersey kelab, warna, corak, yang ni yang tu.......namun sekarang jersey ni tergantung pada badan kami, terasa amat bersemangat dan berbangga.....


Berikut adalah beberapa tangkapan foto di Jamboree, banyak lagi yang akan menyusul nanti....

Starting Point.....ramai lagi yang tak masuk barisan...

satu lagi gambaran starting point

Semua dok tunggu Chief Marshal buat pengumuman....waktu tu I terdengar ada peserta merunggut bag"neh neh" nya rosak sebab anak gigit putingnya... air duk keluar tak terhenti....
HAHAHA, I tergalak dan terpikir : " Kalau kita rebut rezeki dengan anak kita, inilah pengajarannya.... mereka tau balas balik"..... jangan marah!

Peserta berihatEnd Point....crew crew sibuk menyemak gelang yang ada pada lengan peserta. Sesiapa yang berjaya mengumpulkan 4 gelang bermaksud beliau berjaya menamatkan cabaran Jamboree dan layak untuk cabutan bertuah nanti...Yang ini yang I paling tak suka langsung. Dahlah penat... nak kami tunggu di bawah sinaran matahari yang teriak dan panas sementara mengunggu result cabutan bertuah.... aiksss tak terasa bertuah pun....kulit dah macam panggang ayam....canopi tu ada, tapi bikin silap tempat.....

Jaguh-jaguh Pawana Riders. Pak Dam dengan rasa kepuasan yang tak terhingga, mengetuai kumpulan Pawana Riders menamatkan cabaran in SP. Tabik!Seorang lagi jaguh Pawana Riders, Tuan Raif. Walaupun ada terjatuh and bengkak lutut, namun dapat menamatkan cabaran dengan gayanya. Tabik!
Walaupun penat and dalam kesakitan, namun masih gembira. Tuan Raif, dengan bekalan air 1 liter, dapat menghabiskan keseluruhan trek... memang power betui. Kedengaran Tuan Raif berbisik dengan Pak Dam: " Jangan bangga sangat, mai kita try lagi kat BM nanti, tengok lah siapa yang akan sampi dulu."

Mari kita jenguk clip video ini (ehsan Allan Chan)