Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Knights of the Round Tummies?

What do you get when you put the jellied legs of over 500 mountain-bike-junkies-cum-Penang-foodies in a jar? The Penang Mountain Bike Jam-boree!!! :P

This annual event is organised by fellow bikers up North. KOTRT is their name, and eating and riding is their game! KOTRT stands for Knights of the Round Table, but they're better known as Knights of the Round Tummies. Comes as no surprise then that their tagline should be : "Eat to Ride, Ride to Eat". Hey, any foodie can identify with that.



But DO NOT be FOOLED by the grins, the smiles and the pot bellies that some of the KOTRTes bear. Behind that easy-going Penangite is a hard-core creature unleashed when it hits the mind-boggling trails of Penang! How else were they able to spend countless of creature-hours marking out each year's trails with gusto, and devise their evil event titles year after year as a sign of warning of what lies ahead...

2002 Jamboree - "1 Hill Ride" - Yeah right! Too late when you realise how friggin' high, steep and looonnnnnngggggggg that hill is!
2003 Jamboree - "Expect the Unexpected" - after the first year's harrowing experience, we've learnt to take their titles seriously....this was the year the relentless Penang rain added extra obstacles like landslides and mudpools. Fun!
2004 Jamboree - "See u Dare" - The year we discovered how much corn is fed in the Penang diet! I dun dare think about rit.
2005 Jamboree - "Ready for more?" - At first, the title seemed harmless enough, til you realise their checkpoints were named something along the lines of "Want some more?"..... "Some More"......."No More"....Can't take it no more!! The organisers were so proud in revealing to us their special corny concoction! I personally thought it was brilliant! hee hee

In the next few blogs, I will present to you the quadrilogy entitled "Fellowship of the Wheel"!

For starters, check out the KOTRT website

Other rides organised by KOTRT attended by us silly Singaporeans...

23 - 25 February 2001 - KOTRT Annual Ride, Pos Mensun, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
Beykha's Nightmare Account
Karxc's Ride Account

15 - 16 March 2003 - Kuala Mu, Malaysia
About this ride
Album

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