Cycling
Malaysia host two international road cycling tours; such as the annual Tour de Langkawi and Jelajah Malaysia. Both races are part of the UCI Asia Tour. Tour de Langkawi is the biggest cycling event in Asia and it is the only one in Asia to have granted two hors-category (2.HC). The Jelajah Malaysia is the oldest bicycle race in Malaysia, touring around Malaysia.
Track cycling is a growing sport in Malaysia. Malaysia have several velodrome such as Cheras Velodrome and Velodrome Rakyat, Ipoh. Extreme cycling, such as mountain biking and urban freestyle BMX is also popular among youth in main cities in Malaysia. Riding bicycle is considered as the mode of transportation as well as a recreational and leisure sport.
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Famous quotes containing the word cycling:
“If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.”
—Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839–1908)
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)