The young riders with their support team and some of the Malakoff riders (white & green jerseys)
...and after I asked for riders under 18 only I've gone on, and on, and on about the young riders from Terengganu. Finally managed to find the pix of these young people, although not all of them.
When we set off from Gombak there were a few young riders with us as well including Rahimi who I've posted on earlier.
Once in Temerloh, Ishak joined the ride with a few young riders who had cycled from Kemaman the day before. I don't have pix of this team - if anyone does please email to malakoff.cr@gmail.com or post a link in the comments.
In Kemaman another group of young people joined us, with their own support team of parents in tow. They had found out about the ride through Ishak and the Kemaman Teachers' Cycling Club.
So on the final day, the Malakoff Charity Ride, numbered more than 120 riders, and had a much expanded support team too.
All these riders are under 18 years, most are between 12 to 16 years.
Not all of them are from loaded families but they have the interest and the passion to ride.
You know that they have been training hard from their tans which have gone past golden brown to the burnt to a crisp level.
And surprise, surprise a number of them are girls, and they were as fast as the boys, and a lot faster than most of the men aside from the pros (no offense to any of the male riders). Anyway this was a ride and not a race, so placign doesn't matter.
But back to the young people. Terengganu seems to be the place for raising professional riders.
Is there a cycling academy in Terengganu? Would anyone be interested to set one up there? If the parents of the young riders are an indication, it should be easy to get support for such an academy.
