This weekend sees the first of two UCI Mountain Bike World Cup events in the UK this year. Dalby Forest plays host to the World’s best Cross Country cyclists from today until Sunday.
You may even be able to still enter (if you’re really quick) to ride the World Cup course in the Dalby Dare warm up event. However that won’t get your hands on one of the custom built event trophies that are being produced by a local wood turner, Philip Greenwood. The prizes will be made of various woods to represent gold, silver and bronze and will be hand made for the event. It seems like a brilliant way to reflect the individuality of an area by producing a trophy that’s unique to the event and a little more interesting than something picked up at your local key-cutters.
If you are going up to the event make sure you are fully up to speed on the technical information you’ll need about cutting edge mountain bikes. In the interests of bringing you the greatest information on the internet I have persuaded the WWW gods to give up a nugget of pure information gold. Here you can read about the intricacies of bike design. It even includes a brief history where you can learn about developments in cycle comfort (I think);
“…a man named Dunlop (Scottish) made-up the pneumatic tire, this beside with Macadam (a new Scot) inventing the tar way superficial arranged cycling a plight additional pleasant.”
Well there you go then. Are you not educated?
All too often, it seems, there are stories of tragedy on the streets of London which are hard to work into what we like to see as a largely light-hearted look at cycling. Once again one caught our attention as a cyclist was horribly killed on Oxford Street by a bus whose driver seems to have, at the very least, lost concentration. Sadly it also seems to just allow a sector of the public to use the opportunity to complain about what they see as irresponsible cycling on the city streets. It hardly seems the time or the place.
Ride safely.
A
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