Hints and tips:
...Hornit Hero 20in bicycle Suitable for children aged six to nine, this sleek aluminium bike has a maintenance-free belt drive that doesn’t rust or collect dirt and grease....
...Basically, you know, one kid would be head of the junior United Nations and other kids, like, founded a charity that drives dirt bikes through the Sahara Desert for some reason....
...To win, you have to swim as fast as you can through a 60-yard trench cut into a local bog....
...“Gravel bikes are a great innovation because they allow people to ride on a mix of trail surfaces. They offer the benefit of a road and off-road bike in one.”...
...From £6,119, fullycharged.com KTM Freeride E-XC dirt bike This fully electric dirt bike almost creates a whole new category, sitting between mountain biking and conventional combustion-engine dirt bikes...
...Now it is covered with spruce trees although its flanks, tilting at almost 40 degrees, are deeply scoured by the tracks of dirt bikes....
...Musgrave began as an assistant shepherd on this land, farming like a New Zealander, he says, “boys on bikes, with dogs” patrolling acres of arable prairie....
...Together these cities are home to more than 60 per cent of Colombia’s population....
...Julian Temperley has typical farmer’s hands – thick, grubby, cracked with dirt....
...He has flirted with death on several occasions – once going head to head with a bull elephant while riding his dirt bike at 90mph....
...POETRY Jubilee Lines: 60 Poets for 60 Years, edited by Carol Ann Duffy, Faber, RRP£12.99, 160 pages A poetic curtsy to Her Majesty, this collection curated by (who else?)...
...Everyone simply rents bikes and spends their days cycling on tiny roads and dirt tracks between the various swimming spots....
...Of the some 60 people in the missing person posters I had photographs of, not one survived....
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