Mountain biking: Past names inspire Gray to success

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Gray was a competitive swimmer with the Waves club before she started mountain biking four years ago. "I went out riding with a group from the mountain bike club and it was fun," she said. She has enjoyed training on the bush tracks at Wakari Forest, ...

mountain biking world watching tasmania

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The Minister for Sport and Recreation, Michelle O'Byrne, today launched Wildside MTB 2012, Australia's premier mountain biking stage race. Ms O'Byrne said the four-day event, which began in 2002, will focus the mountain biking world's attention on ...

Student raises £5000 by biking length of Britain

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Adam, 17, from Field Road in Crowle, started the ride at John O'Groats and it took him seven days to reach Land's End, biking around 130 miles a day. He said: "It was an amazing experience which I cannot really get over. "It means an awful lot to give ...

Richmond mayor promotes biking during forum

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Hosting the Road World Championships cycling race in 2015 is a catalyst to help position Richmond as a bike-friendly town, Mayor Dwight C. Jones said Thursday evening at a forum on biking in the city. "We want cycling to be part of the culture of ...

Christchurch biking hot-shot favoured

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Brookland said the championships were one of the biggest mountain biking events to be held in Southland for many years and was delighted with the tracks. "They're looking in top condition. A wee bit of rain wouldn't hurt," he said. ...

Biking 'hikers' crossing country from Seattle to Florida

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Matt "Michigan" Dempsey, 24, said there was a woman in Arkansas who gave them $100 after seeing one of the guys' signs that said "Biking across America." "She didn't ask for anything; she just handed it to us and walked off," he said. ...

Closing the ring road for racers

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Expressing his condolences to AzharuddinâEuro (TM)s family, Tiwari said it was extremely sad that youngsters were losing lives on the highway due to speed biking. âEurooeThe HMDA will set up toll booths within a month or two on the stretch,âEuro he said in reply ...

Biking violations unpunished

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"I haven't heard of a city or a town that's ticketing bicyclists,'' said Timmins, who instructs officers statewide on mountain biking. "I ask quite often in my classes. To this date, nobody's said yes.'' Peter DeMarco can be reached at ...

"Rolling Rabbis" are biking for a cause despite the heat | Philadelphia ...

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Bicyclist Shmuel Rothstein said the biking is fun. "You're in open air most of the time. The wind cools you down," he said. "Whenever you do stop, you bend down and then you sweat. It does hamper you, makes you a lot more tired." But temperatures won't ...

New head of Chicgao transportation wants more biking

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"We want to make walking and biking the modes of choice for less than one and two miles of travel, and above that, transit," Klein said. "If we just make it so that people can ride recreationally on Sundays on the lakeside trail, that's important, ...