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Wednesday, 29 October 2008End the year with most fun endurance event you can pack into 6 hours of racing! Verticon 6 Hr Challenge 2008 will kick off on November 2 at Benoble, Canungra, Queensland.
Everyone is invited to join in the challenge, whether you are a beginner or a competitive rider. The aim is to complete as many laps in a 6 hour period as you can either as a solo rider or in a team of friends or wor k-mates. It is up to you and your team.
Canungra is located just 30 minutes drive inland from either Nerang on the Gold Coast or 30 minutes from Beenleigh, Brisbane
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008Santa Cruz, CA -- Adventure Out, California's leader in outdoor adventure, is now holding its Mountain Biking I Clinic at DeLaveaga Park in Santa Cruz. This course is geared towards people who want to learn the basics on their mountain bike -- from bike maintenance, to proper riding technique, body position, and trail etiquette. On and off-bike instruction will ensure that all participants are hi tting the trail safely and responsibly.
DeLaveaga is a City of Santa Cruz park offering miles of trails through the city's greenbelt and a wide variety of terrain ranging from grass and Live Oak hillsides, to deep redwood forests. The new Mountain Biking program by Adventure Out marks the second collaboration with the City of Santa Cruz to offer high-quality, professional and legitimate outdoor guiding services on City controlled land.
Adventure Out CEO Cliff Hodges explains the importance of these guide-to-government relationships: "Several sectors of the outdoor guiding industry have been operating for decades now on public lands with little or no regulation. While this may have been convenient for many independent guides, it has led to a decrease in professionalism and safety standards. Adventure Out has been working with local, state, and federal governments for the past 5 years to clearly define permit standards for all commercial guide services and outdoor professionals in every location that we operate."
To experience the difference of going outdoors with professional and certified instructors, and to learn more about the Beginner Mountain Biking Clinics in Santa Cruz, CA, visit Adventure Out on the web at http://www.adventureout.com/mountainBiking_l_Marin.html.
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Friday, 24 October 2008Sheffield youngster Connor Mills has won a mountain bike, after winning a competition in this year’s Go For It programme. Go For It is the Summer activity programme run by Activity Sheffield, which is part of Sheffield City Council.
Connor, 13, from the Mansel area of Sheffield, got his ‘Go For It’ brochure from school. Go For It tells children what activities are taking place during the school holidays. Connor attended various sports camps, including one at Chaucer Business College which is run every school holiday.
Connor’s family often go to Rother Valley Country Park at weekends and so he is looking forward to riding it there. Connor added, "I enjoy lots of different sports and play football for my school team. My favourite Activity Sheffield sessions are the Multisports Camps. They are fun and you get to make lots of new friends."
Gavin Holiday of J E James, Bramall Lane, Sheffield donated the bike and presented it to Connor.
Cllr Roger Davison, Cabinet Adviser for Culture and Leisure from Sheffield City Council said: "Well done Connor! I hope he has many happy adventures riding around on his new bike. Cycling is a great way to be active and stay fit and healthy."
Sheffield City Council’s Activity Sheffield service offers around 80 activity sessions per week throughout Sheffield, and up to 200 sessions during school holiday periods. These include football, basketball, athletics, trampolining, dance and much more.
To find out more about activities across Sheffield, visit www.sheffield.gov.uk or call 0114 273 4266.
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Thursday, 23 October 2008Presented by Whole Foods P St. and The DCMTB.com/City Bikes Mountain Bike Team, DCCX, the only cyclocross racing competition held in the nation’s capital, will be held on October 26 on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in NW Washington, DC.
For this year, the organizers have upped their payout for elite racers. Whole Foods-P St. has expanded its sponsorship of the event so that the winner of the women’s 1/2 race will for the first time get the same payout as the winner of the men’s 1/2 race. City Bikes remains as the title sponsor of the men’s elite race, with both races paying $700 total, seven deep. Other category winners will get cool loot.
Li’l Belgians will be sponsored by the Belgians. This year, as part of the MABRA series, DCCX is adding a race for kids, and has pulled in as sponsors the Belgian Embassy, which will be offering all participating kids a special (and tasty) prize.
Register early at BikeReg.com. You can register at this link www.bikereg.com.
Source:
www.dcmtb.com
Wednesday, 22 October 2008Join the inaugural BMC Mountains To Beach and come on a journey where entrants, solo or pairs will ride some 350km from Thredbo in the Snowy Mountains of NSW to Narooma on the South Coast of NSW.
The BMC Mountains To Beach is 5 days of mountain bike stage racing from the roof of Australia to the surf from March 1-6, 2009.
The event is designed to test the full range of your mountain biking skills - uphill, downhill, cross country, marathon, riding under lights. Whilst timed race stages will range in length up to 100km, there will also be a number of non timed, non race cruising stages along the way.
For more information about this news, please visit www.wildhorizons.com.au.
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