A Ride To Kuantan (13 December - 14 December 2008)

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It's been a while since my last bike convoys with my Eleganet buddies. So tomorrow we will set of for a little adventure trip to Kuantan riding our Modenas Elegan bike. I estimate the whole journey will take at least 644km. I hope my bike could cope with top speed abuse in this trip.


For a record, for a single rider, the Elegan 150 stock standard could reach the maximum speed at 135km/h but with a pillion it will drop to 120km/h.

Defensive Riding Class

It seems like I'm getting busy with Eleganeers member this last few weeks. Even though it is just for a sip of late night coffee after some bowling game or simply hang out at our regular late night stall. And as for today, we had a unique agenda, out of ordinary, a "Defensive Riding" class. We've been riding Elegan for a year and a half now but this is our only opportunity to properly learn how to ride safely alone, with pillion or during convoy.


The class were held at one of the lecture hall in HUKM at Bandar Tun Razak lasted about 3 hours. It's really educative even for us (old people). Started with a set of questionare about which side are you in, the safe or the dangerous rider on road. Some how most of us fall in the middle, which is very realistic. Followed with some freak accident video clip like this:



And other tips including a proper riding gear and how to keep alert or paranoid with "if" questions on each vehicle or object while riding on road.

Of course I had another purpose why did I attend this class. To study further on how my SB 600 speed lite behave in a large room. I tried bounce, direct and other stuff. Like the group photo above, I use aperture priority set to F/4.5 plus the build in flash.

I did not satisfy with all photo taken using the bouncing flash to the ceiling technique. So maybe next time I really need to focus on using bounce on card technique instead of ceiling.

The Adventure Begins

Last week, me and my Elegan buddies were successful completing a coastal cruising bike trip all the way to Port Dickson, Melaka and back to KL. I thought I'm too old for this kind of activity, but I'm not alone.



More trip photo here