Tour de Johore - Derbi Terra Adventure

Tour de Johore
11 Feb 2012
530 km
15 hours butt-flattening ride

Video : Cruising The Roof of The World (Promo version)

CIrcumnavigating Sabah

Finally the video is done.
After days, to weeks, to month of delays. its's done over a weekend.
But much preparation was to be made to compile this video.
5 days of video footage compress into a short 5 minutes video.
Anyway this is it...

The video of my trip to Sabah last September.
circumnavigating around Sabah in 5 days with the rideborneo.com operator
1157km of pure riding...

Enjoy the video now.
Details of my trip perhaps sometime when I'm free next.
Still got the photos to sort out.
By itself it will speak a thousand words.

and the video...
It'll speaks a million words...

Conquering the Elevations of Sabah

Motorcycling around Sabah during my break is fun!
While since I'm there, why not add diving & trekking to the list.
And the result is a 4 months preparation for the conquest.
The depth, plain & altitude of Sabah.

Depth - The final dive spot wasn't my first choice. first the Layang-layang is off season. and the other popular destination like Labuan and Sipadan was practically out-of-reach for a single diver like me (according to the tour operator). The 'Min 2 to go' rules never helps.But I need to conquer the depth, otherwise I would not achieve what I set out to do. and thanks to Janet of Sabah Divers, I manage to pack with 2 stranger to Tunku Abdul Rahman Park. It's only 15mins ride from Kota Kinabalu. Nothing to shout about regarding the dives. Especially compare to my last dive at Qiandao Lake. The only worth watching are the 2 ladies diving with me...

Plain - Am I risking my life ? Here I am, only my 2nd time sitting on a moving bike on a public road after I got my license more than a year ago in Singapore. And now I'm going on a 1157km journey with a third of it off road and the other half on a unpaved road and in a foreign country! Sounds like an Adventure to me!

Altitude - Mount Kinabalu. it's about 15 years since I last intended to climb this mountain. And no thanks to the Indonesian forest fire then, the last trip was cancelled. But not this time. The highest peak in South-East-Asia (4095.2m) and being a South-East-Asian myself, I know I have to scale this at least once in my current lifetime. And yes, I've already scaled the highest peak in Singapore, Bukit Timah Hill at 166m.

and above all is made possible by these friendly operators
www.sabahdivers.com
www.rideborneo.com
www.adventure-quests.com

now straight to the videos...

Time for a riding trip ?

Well.. while I'll wait for my riding theory test date.
it seems like my time to ride in China is still quite a long wait.
perhaps I could keep my enthusiasm by planning for a riding trip.

October have the longest holiday here in China. and last year I wasted a full 3 weeks in Singapore doing nothing but waiting for friends who are working during the day.
Well, I did have a good ride for 1 day in Johore.

This year, this will not happen again.

Browsing through the net I found many tours that I'm interested in.
mainly in Borneo and Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia region.
at least it's on my way down back to Singapore.
Yes, I will not be taking a direct flight but stopover at least 1 destination.

so far I found the www.rideborneo.com is relatively easier ride tour for me.
I've ridden off-road before, but don't consider myself experience enough.
as much a I'm interested in riding from Thailand border to Cambodia to see the Angkor Wat.
maybe I should get myself more riding hours before I make that rough trip.

Let's see...