The Rotorua BMX Club’s new track is starting to take shape and one local woman who is pretty handy on two wheels cannot wait to see the finished product.
For a small club in Northland where budding riders learn from experienced hands, winning a number of gongs at the recent New Zealand BMX North Island titles was no small feat.
Hawke’s Bay BMX rider Tyler Waite had an extra incentive when he captained the New Zealand Mighty 11s team to victory against their Aussie counterparts in Auckland last weekend.
He’s back on the bike and he’s back on the podium. But on June 17 last year, the prospects for Tauranga BMX ridder Jakub Bourke being in either of those places were not good.
From the gallery, Olympic BMX silver medallist Sarah Walker watched on, as the document she had spent 12 months creating was raised in front of international sports’ most prominent figures.
With the recent release of a UCI Regulation update, there has been a lot of discussion and questions about clip pedals, with who can and can’t use them in recent days.
The All Blacks are not the only Kiwi sports stars making waves in Argentina this weekend, with Sarah Walker fighting back from years of injury-laden adversity to finish on the podium at the UCI BMX World Cup.
It is with pleasure that BMX New Zealand announce the successful selected riders who trialled for the BMXNZ Mighty 11’s Junior Test Teams at the Mountain Raiders BMX Club, during the 2018 Pre-Norths Trial event, Sunday 23rd September 2018.
Records tumbled on BMX time trial day at the Aims Games. In the third year of this sport at the tournament, fastest times were set in three of the four divisions – Year 7 boys and girls, and Year 8 boys.
The efforts of two of Waikato’s rising stars in BMX have paid off. Hamilton students Cailen Calkin and Jessie Smith have been selected for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games, held in Buenos Aires in October.