It has been pouring with rain almost every afternoon and into the evenings for the past two weeks. The Racun Cycling Gang’s evening rides are not the only things that have been washed out. Five times the normal daily rainfall contributed to a landslide that washed out a 200 meter section of road alongside Tasik Semenyih. That puts paid to our weekend rides to the Tekala Recreation area for a while. The landslide also caused a change in the route for tomorrow’s Broga Reverse 116 ride. It is now the Broga Reverse 105.
Photo courtesy of The Star Online
Precipitation of a different kind forced the cancellation of today’s Not Possibles morning ride. Enough snow fell on Den Haag yesterday to make the bike paths icy and hazardous. We were lucky last winter. There were many below-freezing days and some snow, but not enough to get in the way of our Saturday rides. Not last winter anyway. This is on the Rottermeren.
It was a bit different in the winter of 2010. I took this video from the warmth of our kitchen. You had to be Dutch, or Inuit, to ride on this particular day.
Old Roots, New Routes 