..life is an adventure
or nothing at all...
The Olympic cycling machine continues to offer out opportunity after opportunity. Today I read that the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has announced plans for London to host a world class two day festival of cycling next year. It will be the first large scale event to use the Olympic Park when it reopens next summer.
Young mountain-bike riders’ relationship with the natural environment and its effects on their well-being and lifestyles are explored in a new Research Note published by the Forestry Commission.
Hardy trail builders are going up in the world to build the longest competition downhill mountain bike route of its kind in England.
Wielding shovels and pitch forks and armed with gritty determination in the face of winter weather, mountain bike fans expect to have the two mile trail built by October in spectacular 62,000 hectare (155,000 acre) Kielder Water & Forest Park.
Swinley Forest Mountain Bike Centre in Bracknell is a god send for those of us who live in or near the big smoke. It has over 20 miles of carved singletrack trails to discover.
Bedgebury Forest Mountain Bike Trails on the Kent sussex border offer a wonderful mountain bike experience. There are 12 miles of singletrack graded red and there is also a freeride section.