Kg Sungai Pusu

It's somebody or another's birthday today. Don't really care. The public holiday is the thing.

Moses came up with the insane idea of hitting Kg. Sungai Pusu. In the abscence of better ideas... why not?

This is a small village up near UIA, in Gombak, near the highway that goes to Kuantan. The village gives access to the trails into the Gombak Forest Reserve.

Parked our car at a gas station, and cycled 5km to the village. Bumped into another group of bikers there and got some directions from them.

The trail guide as described in the KLMBH website is no longer accurate. Somebody is trying to build some kind of apartments between the village and the forest reserve. Not sure what the deal is with calling it a forest reserve if people can just come in, chainsaw up a swath of trees, and level a mountainside and build as they like.

The old way into the forest no longer exist. Instead, have to go around the construction site and climb up a muddy slope.

It was a good thing that the other 4-men group caught up with us, and showed us where to go.


Got mud everywhere. Sticky yellow mud. Mud in the gears, in the pedals, in the brakes, on the suspension staunchions... I shudder to think of all the work it'll take to get my bicycle cleaned and lubed properly again...

Mud kills moving parts. The suspension of clay particles is a lovely slurry that will grind away moving parts. Mud got into my disc brakes, and cleaned off a good layer of braking compound till I lost all grip whatsoever with my front brakes. Had to readjust the brake pads.


We followed the guys up the muddy hill, into the forest, and downhill till we hit a stream where we could take a break.

The trail is very damaged. 4WDs had cut deep into the trail, and subsequent rain had eroded those tracks into mini gullies more than a foot deep. Much unlike Kiara, where MTB enthusiasts regularly repair such damage. This Gombak trail gets no such love, and it's just going to go from bad to worse.


We didn't even manage to make it to the lake. And Moses was ambitiously hoping to cut thru the reserve, and come out from Zoo Negara, some 20km away.

By the time we climbed back up... pushing the bike most of the way, we've done a solid 4hrs in the trails. Not a bad day's work.

There were some sphincter clenching downhills that were an absolute thrill!

And I also got to test out my GPS in the jungle canopy. No deal. Disappointed that I can't get a fix most of the time. Probably need to upgrade to the latest Garmin 60CSx which uses the newer SIRFiii chipset that is more sensitive and can even pickup radio signals reflected off buildings and such.... But that's worth almost the price for a Troy ounce of gold...