Tour d Langkawi

Tour d Langkawi, yeah! The tour passed through the town of Seremban yesterday afternoon...

As a result, the police closed off a main road, the trunk road linking Seremban and KL. They closed the roads on a Saturday afternoon??? Does the organiser know how much traffic the road normally handles?

As a result, a drive back from Seremban 2 to Taman Chip Aik took me an hour...

People were getting impatient in the cars, and I was swearing all along the way. Why can't they just choose another place to do their f*****g race and save us the trouble of being trapped in a stupid traffic jam?

I really wish this tour will not feature Seremban next year... They're not even staying a night in a Seremban hotel, the 'hotel' sign on the roads point to KL, so what's the use of coming to Seremban? Just to cause some traffic jam and stage a podium for winners to celebrate with girls and VIPs without even contributing to the commercial sector here??

I wonder if the cyclists ever knew about the residents' problems. Obviously, the organiser doesn't care at all!

Final comment : WHAT A F*****G WASTE OF TIME! PLEASE BYPASS SEREMBAN NEXT YEAR!


p/s: excerpt from Wikipedia
Because of the difficulties, it put the 2007 edition in doubt for temporary period until it is cleared by UCI. Several teams reported they had not received their prize money or some of the prize money. The South Africa team already insists that they only received for 2005 edition prize money and still owed for the 2006 edition, prepare for the event. [2] This issue has been raised for a year but still unsolved, although they are several other teams also in the same issue like Barloworld, American Pro Continental Team Navigators Insurance, Wismilak, Iran, Great Britain, Ireland and Japan. [3][4]

First Cartel (M) Sdn Bhd, the organiser, is responsible in this case and has struggled to rectify the situation while trying to repay a loan of RM 2.5 million taken out to buy out the previous owner, Datuk Wan Lokman. The event is reported to have amassed debts of RM2.3 million for television rights, and also some RM470,394 in failing to pay the winners of this year's race. The company has been able to to honour some but not all of the debts.

Unverified reports suggested that First Cartel (M) Sdn Bhd has been dropped organising the tour and the role taken over by the Youth and Sports Ministry, which prepared some RM2.9 million to bail out of this issue. [5]


Yaya... A Tour of Troubles I can see... Why not save the trouble and stop organising?? NO! WE ARE A FIRST WORLD COUNTRY!! We can't lose to other countries organising cycling tours!

Your management, dude, I believe, is no way comparable... =.='