Maritzburg Mayor lends a helping hand in Supercross track building process
Apr 05, 2011
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The UCI BMX Supercross World Cup in Pietermaritzburg took a major step closer to reality on Wednesday when the first truckloads of ochre-red soil for the world class track arrived at Alexandra Park where the city’s mayor Mike Tarr was on hand to move the first sods into place. The permanent BMX track will sit alongside the Pietermaritzburg cricket oval and the cycling velodrome, and will provide an eagerly awaited year-round base for the Olympic sport enthusiasts in the region. “It’s our plan to take the whole area around Alexandra Park and turn it into a sporting precedent and this BMX track forms a part
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Round 2 results of the Spanish BMX Race League, San Vicentte, 27 March 2011:Elite Men:
1 852 ALEX HUNTER HONG KONG 22
2 23 JAVIER MANUEL MORALES GONZALEZ ZERO 18
3 88 ABRAHAM SOLBES CORREA BMX SAN VICENTE 15
4 255 RUBEN CRESPO OLIVAN PIRINEOS 14
5 451 ALEJANDRO KIM PEÑA EMERITA TRACK 13
Oceania Continental champions Sarah Walker and Marc Willers head an eight-strong team that leaves for South Africa at the weekend for the opening round of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup. The first round will be held in Pietermaritzburg which also staged last year’s World Championships. It is the first of five rounds that includes the test event at London ahead of next year’s Olympics. Walker, the only female in the team, is looking to continue from
Pretoria based BMX star Dean Holdstock recently arrived back on home soil to prepare for the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup season opener in Pietermaritzburg after a busy four month stint in the US. The injury plagued youngster, who missed out on last year’s World Champs due to two cracked vertebrae and a slipped disc which he sustained in a bone buckling crash at the Alrode in Gauteng just two weeks before the international event, is hopeful his misfortunes are a thing of the past and has been working hard ahead of next weekend’s event. “At the moment I feel I’m in the best form I’ve ever been in,” said a determined Holdstock. “I felt really strong before my crash last year and I definitely feel I’m back up there again now.”
“Having missed out last year I’m definitely very keen to take full advantage of this opportunity to perform in front of my home crowd. There’s no doubt it gets me pumped to be able to show them
Riders ready, watch the gate… beep-beep-beep-beeeeeeep. On your iPhone now!
Mar 31, 2011
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BMX Random Gate start cadence for your iPhone / iPod Touch OK riders, random start… Riders ready, watch the gate… beep-beep-beep-beeeeeeep... Marc Willers kept asking me to make him an App, so even when he's not at the track, he can still snap! This application allows you to play the random gate start cadence used in international BMX events no matter where you are with your iPhone or iPod Touch (random delay included!). A new random delay is generated every single playback, so you'll never 
USA Cycling is pleased to announce the hiring of Performance Driven, led by James Herrera, to lead all elite and U23 BMX training camps as well as international team events under BMX Program Director Mike King. Herrera, who embarks on his second stint with USA Cycling’s BMX program, will utilize the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., making use of the campus Supercross BMX track. In 2006, he joined USA Cycling’s BMX program as a coaching consultant to help prepare cyclists for the 2008 
US based BMX rider Gavin Lubbe returned to South Africa last week ahead of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup season opener in Pietermaritzburg on 8 and 9 April, determined to do his country of birth proud. Lubbe and his family crossed the Atlantic in 2004 and after originally setting up home in Atlanta they eventually settled in Monterey, California where they have spent the past five years. All this came about after BMX-obsessed Lubbe watched the 2001 World Champs in the United States and then made up his mind that the USA was where he wanted to pursue his BMX dreams. “I spoke to my Dad about exploring the possibility of him finding a position in his line of work in the States and then in 2004 an opportunity came his way which we jumped at,” explains Lubbe. “It’s been fantastic being over there but South Africa will definitely always be my home.” “Over there you have a major race at least once a month where the world’s fastest racers come together and
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