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Our couchhoster Charles had to go to Kuala Lumpur for business so he proposed to ride andries back to Ipoh. What a guy! Andries tried to arrange a bike while in KL, but it proved to be unsuccesful...:-( We didn't think too much about the fact that andries is relatively tall, so all asian bikes available are too small. Would we find something?? Awch, imagine we can't? Luckily he decided to go to 1 more shop in Kuala where he found the best bike he found until now. He just got it to have a bike.
No seriously, he didn't go for this option. We figured we had to find a bike in Ipoh instead.
Anyway, while andries was on his way to Ipoh, Me & Line biked around town to visit 1 of the surrounding cave temples. Perak Tong cave temple, a big limstone cave turned into a chinese temple with 415 stairs leading to the top of the hill from where you can look over ipoh city and beyond. Rewarding views for the exercise. Had lunch at a local restaurant where the owner-chef, Andy, was a biker as well. He was very interested in talking to us, warning us about the steep climbs to go into the cameron highlands. Is it a good plan to bike up there and down again? Time will tell, finally we spend about 2 hours sitting together in his restaurant until Andries & Charles arrived.
Andries still didn't have a bike so we went to the nearby (80y old) bikeshop in Ipoh...asked for a "big" frame and we found our way up to an oldstock stashed away in the attic, had some discussions on the price, hesitations if this was ok, but this is going to be the best deal we can find. 400rm = about 100€ and there aren't any bigger bikes around anywhere :-)
The bikeshop is building the bike up as we speak...we all can't wait to wee it tomorrow...
oldskool!
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Our couchhoster Charles had to go to Kuala Lumpur for business so he proposed to ride andries back to Ipoh. What a guy! Andries tried to arrange a bike while in KL, but it proved to be unsuccesful...:-( We didn't think too much about the fact that andries is relatively tall, so all asian bikes available are too small. Would we find something?? Awch, imagine we can't? Luckily he decided to go to 1 more shop in Kuala where he found the best bike he found until now. He just got it to have a bike.
No seriously, he didn't go for this option. We figured we had to find a bike in Ipoh instead.
Anyway, while andries was on his way to Ipoh, Me & Line biked around town to visit 1 of the surrounding cave temples. Perak Tong cave temple, a big limstone cave turned into a chinese temple with 415 stairs leading to the top of the hill from where you can look over ipoh city and beyond. Rewarding views for the exercise. Had lunch at a local restaurant where the owner-chef, Andy, was a biker as well. He was very interested in talking to us, warning us about the steep climbs to go into the cameron highlands. Is it a good plan to bike up there and down again? Time will tell, finally we spend about 2 hours sitting together in his restaurant until Andries & Charles arrived.
Andries still didn't have a bike so we went to the nearby (80y old) bikeshop in Ipoh...asked for a "big" frame and we found our way up to an oldstock stashed away in the attic, had some discussions on the price, hesitations if this was ok, but this is going to be the best deal we can find. 400rm = about 100€ and there aren't any bigger bikes around anywhere :-)
The bikeshop is building the bike up as we speak...we all can't wait to wee it tomorrow...
oldskool!
hallo drietal,
BeantwoordenVerwijderenfor sure the first bike will not work!Gelukkig behoudt Andries er zijn lach en optimisme bij(as usual). Ardan, met al dat tempelbezoeken, wakkert dit een beetje je "religieuze" gevoel aan? Gelukkig heb ik je vroeger toch in enkele kerken,kapellen meegesleept!En warm benen, knieën maar op voor de komende fiets onderneming.
Veel plezier samen, kussen, Chantal
Wauw, schat,wat een mooie fiets zeg! Precies zo ene voor uw plechtige communie met die kleuren :) Ook het decor waarin de foto van de fiets genomen is geweldig :) Nu moet er wel nog een foto komen met u in vol ornaat (+helm) op de fiets hé.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHier sneeuwt het ondertussen lustig voort, winterwonderland en ijskoud, wees maar zeker dat jullie beter af zijn.
Groetjes, K
Amai wat een schone benen!!!
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