{"id":6487,"date":"2010-10-21T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=6487"},"modified":"2015-05-09T06:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T06:59:57","slug":"ukm-cycling-expedition-to-pd-a-success","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/october-2010\/ukm-cycling-expedition-to-pd-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"UKM Cycling Expedition To PD A Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Foctober-2010%2Fukm-cycling-expedition-to-pd-a-success%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=6487&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/cycle1.png\" alt=\"\" \/>THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2010 13:55<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Abdul Ghani Nasir<br \/>\nPix by Saliman Leman and Bisharuzi Omar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBANGI, 21 Oct. 2010 \u2013A group of 27 members of the cycling team of the Sports and Recreation Club of the Ibu Zain International College (IZISH), UKM have successfully completed its maiden cyclying expedition from the UKM campus here to Port Dickson recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThey were accompanied by 29 officers and staffs of the Kajang Municipal Council on the trip which was flagged off early Saturday, 9<sup>th<\/sup> Oct. They returned to Bangi the next day covering a distance of 142 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBisharuzi Omar, a Sports and Recreation Fellow at IZISH, said the success of the expedition had spurred the organisers to push for the formation of a UKM Cycling Club possibly by early next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe expedition was flagged-off at the main entrance of the campus by Musa Zainal Abidin Othman from the Students Services Department and Anuar Ahmad, head of IZISH. Kolej IZISH is one of 12 residential colleges in UKM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nKajang Municipal Council Chairman, Dato\u2019\u00a0Hasan Nawawi Abdul Rahman who had made a name for himself by cycling around the world covering 18 countries in 389 days, a few years back, joined the expedition as adviser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDato\u2019Hassan had a week before given a talk to the participants on his experiences going round the world which gained him an entry into the Malaysia Book of Records.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/cycle2.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/cycle3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bisharuzi said the expedition had given the participants a new experience in cycling over \u00a0long distances. It also tested their physical and mental strength and helped to build their stamina. The expedition had develop their organisational skills and spirit of co-operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe participants spent the night at Sun Shine Resort, PD\u00a0 before cycling back to Bangi the next day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThey exchanged views and tales of their group trips to Thailand and Indonesia. They were also shown the right cycling techniques and tools to be bring for long trips.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe group plans to cycle to Putrajaya with the UiTM Tronoh Perak Cycling Club on the 6th of Nov and to Phuket, Thailand at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nCycling groups and individuals interested in participating and becoming members of the plannned UKM Cycling Club can contact Bisharuzi at 019-2700026 for more information.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/cycle4.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/cycle5.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2010 13:55 By Abdul Ghani Nasir Pix by Saliman Leman and Bisharuzi Omar BANGI, 21 Oct. 2010<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/october-2010\/ukm-cycling-expedition-to-pd-a-success\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6488,"parent":1410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6487","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6487\/revisions\/6490"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}