The Biking Community – Page 12

AMBC Chix MTB Development Program – what are your thoughts?

After some red wine, good food and a bit of a brainstorm a couple of weeks ago, Kim Stokeld (founder of Australian Mountain Bike Clinics), myself and some of the other AMBC coaches are working on ways to get more ladies involved in MTB.

If you have a chance to complete a five minute survey, we would appreciate hearing your thoughts on what some of the barriers are that prevent more women getting involved, and any ideas you have about how AMBC might be able to help overcome these.

The survey can be found by clicking this link, or copying and pasting the address into your browser: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WD8P6ND One filler-inner-er will win a 3 hour private skills session. Awesome!

For more info on AMBC and clinics happening around Australia in the next few months, check out the AMBC website.

We’ll miss you, Jimi

scott 24 09 — James (left) with Lewie, Andy Blair and Adrian Jackson after riding more laps together than any other team at the Scott 24 Hour last year. Photo: Russ Baker.

The mountain biking community lost one of it’s greatest this week. James Williamson, was competing with Shaun Lewis (Lewie) in the South Africa’s ABSA Cape Epic Stage Race when he didn’t wake up on Tuesday morning. The news has rocked those who knew him pretty hard. At 26 years old, fit, healthy, living a dream and as an approachable and genuine role model for riders everywhere, it’s strange to process how things like this happen, and how lucky we are to have the days we have.Continue reading “We’ll miss you, Jimi”

Enduro Mag Blog

Enduro mag has entered 2010 with a snazzy new blog. We’ll be updating it regularly with posts from bikeland, magland and whateverelsetakesourfancyland. Check it out at www.enduromag.com.au or click on the image below. Hopefully this helps relieve withdrawal symptoms between issues and gives a taste of what’s to come!

Riding Rotorua

The plan: two weeks holiday in Rotorua, New Zealand. No car, just bikes, a cabin next door to the famous Whakarewarewa forest, and a budget that prioritises coffee, food and relaxing with friends. The trails were smooth, corners were fast, adrenalin was high and every trail had it’s own character. Even a short ride had about as much climbing as the half day rides I do around home as there are so many fast, flowing trails down the hill that you have to climb back up to do them again.Continue reading “Riding Rotorua”

Western Sydney Ladies’ Day Wrap

no more scary logs — AMBC coach Robyn takes the ‘scary looking’ out of ‘goodness meeeee what a scary looking log!’

10 women, spread across a novice and intermediate group, came along to the ladies’ skills day held at the Western Sydney Mountain Bike Club’s Yellomundee track on Saturday. We started off the day with some drills in the carpark to build up confidence with balancing, cornering and braking exercises before enjoying a BBQ lunch put on by a similar sized group who were out grooming the track ready for the four hour race the next day.Continue reading “Western Sydney Ladies’ Day Wrap”