Let's Cycle 2015

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Let's Cycle 2015

Penang & Perak: May & June 2015

Let's Cycle is Malaysia's 8TV program about two cyclists (Baki & Rickman) taking on Peninsular Malaysia in 2014, cycling around the peninsular within a month. They not just cycled but went on to meet the people at the places that they stopped at, learnt and participated in the distinct local culture. Wherever they went there was always a warm welcome for them, with the locals proud to show them the local culture.

This year, in 2015 8TV is doing another TV program but this time with a unique twist. They have invited three other cyclist to join them in their cycling adventures. These will be senior people whom many may think old but who are young at heart (and perhaps physically they are too). The objective is to demonstrate that older people can take on tough physical tasks like cycling and at the same time enjoy life even in their later years. The three who will join them are Uncle Lim (a septuagenarian); and my friends Sin (of the hApPy HaPpY blogs) and Fenn, both of whom are in their fifties.

Together they will cycle from Kuala Lumpur to Penang Island in a week. Along the way they will pass the night at Kuala Kubu Baru, Bidor, Ipoh, Sauk, Kuala Sepetang, Bukit Mertajam. Their route will take them pass towns and villages where there will get to see and experience the distinctiveness of each place and their people. What an adventure it will be!

(See Sin's journal on their ride)

8TV WILL START AIRING "LET'S CYCLE 2015" FROM OCTOBER 4TH 2015. SO LOOK OUT FOR IT!

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Some friends and I were able to join Fenn and Sin to give them some moral support for part of their adventure. We may not have been part of the TV program, but it was still an interesting journey for us. Below are the tales of the parts that we were involved in, click on the respective photo to view individual blogs:

Let's Cycle 2015: Day 1 : Kuala Lumpur to Taiping to Kuala Sepetang

By the ETS train from Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh and by bus to Taiping. We then cycled to Kuala Sepetang to join our friends.

Let's Cycle 2015: Day 2-1 : Kuala Sepetang to Kuala Kurau

Part one of our 120km cycle ride from Taiping to Penang takes us from the mangorve swamps of K. Sepetang to delicious prawn fritters of K. Kurau.

Let's Cycle 2015: Day 2-2 : Kuala Kurau to Butterworth

Part two of our 120km cycle ride from Taiping to Penang see us crossing over into mainland Penang and savouring some good prawn curry too.

Let's Cycle 2015 Day 3: Around Penang Island

From Butterworth were crossed over to Penang Island via the Penang ferry to do some cycling around George Town before ending at a finale event at Straits Quay.

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Curry Prawns With Bread @ Nibong Tebal

A simple yet heavenly meal; prawn curry eaten with fluffy bread - Lim Aik Chew Coffeeshop, Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia

Penang Cross Ferry Ride (Pt.1) - George Town to Butterworth 22nd June 2013

Seeing how much that the two of us enjoyed the Penang Cross Channel ride, our other friends decided to join us on another trip using the Penang Ferry.

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