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Mt Bike – From leather to lycra: troubled youngsters are swapping gang life for off road racing
Five years ago, Chance Hurinui aspired to be a patched gang member.
These days he rolls with a different kind of bike group, having chosen lycra and not leather.
Hurinui will take to the start line of the 2017 Motatapu mountain bike race on March 4 alongside Olympic cycling medallist Hayden Roulston and Olympic and World Champion rower Mahe Drysdale.
The 19-year-old was among a group of five young people selected for the event and who … More