Overwhelming response to joint road/mtb ride in Kulim

We have an overwhelming response from the first of its kind event in Kulim where fast mountain bikers were invited to join a shorter version of regular sunday Kulim road ride. There were also several new roadies who took the opportuinity to try it out too. Overall 53 riders turned out with 22 MTB and 31 road bikes. We have mountain biker groups coming from Penang, Kulim and also 4 from Cameron Highlands. Noticed that most of MTB could follow the overall pace ranging between 30-38kmh, and also perform exceptionally well at the hills. We have couple of drop-outs from some road and MTB but that is quite normal, keep trying..you will make it one day. There are several request for this type of event(less than 100km) on monthly or bi-monthly basis. MKH will look at the possibility of supporting the request. Finally congrats to all that make it thru the complete 90km loop at road bike speed and for those who did not keep trying. One final observation is that there are some relatively new riders who did not follow safe practices while following a peloton, most obvious is wheel overlapping and sudden overtaking from the left without any notice, do hope that we can all learn together to make it a safer ride. As for the timing we were off by about 30 min due to one wheel overlaping related accident, 2 punctures, crank arm detached!! and basic waiting due to sizable differences in rider abilities. Some pictures of the ride today.....

Pic below : at the start of the ride
Pic Below: we 50+ riders we fill out the whole restaurant for breakfast
Pic Below: Last hill climb