Genting Sempah is like 30-40 mins drive from KL. It is a mountain pass on the border of Pahang and Selangor state in Malaysia. Today, most of the road users here are road bikes, foldies and a few mountain bikers.
This was my 4th time riding here and this time I did it with a foldie. It was a complete different experience but sometimes we need to slow down life to enjoy the scenery and surrounding. The whole stretch is covered with tress and it was very cooling with the morning dew and breeze.
This place is easily conquered even 85-90kg men riding up here. The highest elevation here is 634m with an average of 2-3 degree gradient climb. Even with the hardest climb is about 3-5 degree and a very short climb only.
Once you see an overpass, which is a sign where you have reached to the top. The total distance to the top is 15.6km from the Orang Asli Museum. It will probably take another 1-2km to ride down to McDonalds to have your breakfast. If you still have energy, I would recommend riding down further to Janda Baik. At this point, the total distance is ~30km and back to the museum is about 61km.
If you proceed down to have McDonalds, coming back you will need to do a hard climb with about 10-12 degree gradient. Or you can push. It is pretty short climb.
There is 1 thing to watch for is speeding cars as some idiots are using it as speedway. There are trucks plowing this route too but they do watch out for you. Anyway, always be alert.
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