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Teams from Woodcreek, Folsom, Oakmont, and individual racers from Roseville High School are wheeling attention to the sport of mountain bike racing.
The Norcal High School Mountain Bike Racing League was founded in 2001 to promote the formation of teams in local high schools as a bridge for junior racers into the competitive world of cycling. In a season there are five to six races to which 34 California high schools send teams.
There are teams in four different divisions – freshman, sophomore, junior varsity, and varsity, and competition is available to both boys and girls….Â
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“A journey of giraffes!” someone shouted, pointing to a dozen of the creatures cantering the shoreline of a shimmering white salt plain. Then came cries of “troop of baboons!” and “sounder of warthogs!” Spend your days cycling amid a plethora of plains in a Sahara of sand in the parched outback of Namibia, and you learn a whole new lexicon – from the Latin name for the bizarre, two-leafed indigenous Welwitschia mirabilis plant to textbook terms for packs o’ critters.
A dazzle of zebras. A crash of rhinos. I think the heat was getting to us.
Our slim and trim “manic mechanic,” Tjipe (“Chippy”), who kept our full-suspension mountain bikes in working order, pulled off the bumpy dirt road ahead and flagged us off-piste into the shade of a dry riverbed where – voila! – a lavish lunch had been laid out, complete with icy beers and chilly wines to wash down 30 dusty miles…. Details
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