Sunday, October 24, 2010

2011 Singlespeed Worlds To Ireland

2010 SSWC Champion Tattoo

With this year's MTB Singlespeed Worlds over (see race report here), everyone is off to Ireland for next year's race:

Immediately after the finish of the 2010 Singlespeed mountain bike Worlds on Saturday in Rotorua, New Zealand, the top two remaining candidates for hosting the 2011 Worlds faced off. Ireland defeated South Africa in the horizontal bungee contest deciding next year's hosting rights.

Four members of each team bungee'd out to place a can of Speights [ed: fairly tasty Kiwi beer] on the ground before being dragged back by the bungee cord.

Read the whole story at Cyclingnews.com.

Oh yeah, local Kiwi Garth Weinberg (pictured at right, courtesy of Mike Breen) won the Men's title and Aussie Heather Logie claimed the Women's crown.

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