This weekend, the Pivot Twentyfour12 will be having an inaugural kids stage race alongside the adults’ 12 and 24 hour races. They have done shorter kids races before, but this is a new event stretching over two days for more adventurous children.
It wouldn’t be very humane to make kids ride 12 and 24 hour races, but the organisers have come up with the lovely, fun-based solution of having kids races that last 12 and 24 minutes. The junior stage race is sponsored by Islabikes, who’ll be there with their entire demo fleet for your nippers to try out. The first day will have a two kilometre dirt crit, and for the second and third stages, racers will join in with the 12 and 24 minute events.
It’s lovely to see event options expanded like this for more enthusiastic kids!
Islabikes write:
“Islabikes will be sponsoring the inaugural Junior stage race at Twentyfour12 in Newnham Park this weekend. The race has three ‘stages’, consisting of a 2km off road time trial and dirt crit on Friday the 28th with the more traditional mass start 12 and 24 minute race on Saturday 29th.
“Islabikes are excited to be supporting the Junior Stage Race at Twentyfour12 this weekend” says Steve Chapman, Events Manager at Islabikes. “It’s a great family event and is the ideal introduction to racing for young riders, it’s all about fun which is how it should be”
Islabikes will be onsite all weekend with their full demo fleet and a sizeable test track. The team will be available to answer any questions you might have whilst offering fitting advice for your aspiring racer’s next ride.
Islabikes founder, Isla Rowntree will be joined by team riders Rob Burns, Keen Burns and Steve Chapman riding singlespeed in the 24hr Solo National Championships. The event will be held from midday on Saturday 29th ’til midday Sunday the 30th. If you see them on course feel free to give them a shout.
Islabikes will be taking their demo fleet around the country for the remainder of the year so if you can’t make it to Plymouth for Twentyfour12 be sure to catch them at another event in their calendar. Further information can be found at www.islabikes.co.uk/test-ride.”
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It wouldn’t be very humane to make kids ride 12 and 24 hour races, but the organisers have come up with the lovely, fun-based solution of having kids races that last 12 and 24 minutes. ??
Minutes ??? Is that correct … ? I can see not doing 12/24 hours but 12/24 minutes??? Surely 120/240 would be more in keeping??? Most kids mini-races in XC series are longer than this so what is the attraction?
Fun?
stevextc said on July 26, 2017
I can see not doing 12/24 hours but 12/24 minutes??? Surely 120/240 would be more in keeping???
It’s supposed to be a bit of fun for the younger people that attend to race their bikes around. You get a few ‘serious’ kids at the front end, but the rest are made up of kids on their Halfords specials giving it their all for whatever time they are racing for.
You even get kids on balance bikes tottering round.
It’s a great little addition to the weekend.
It’s supposed to be a bit of fun for the younger people that attend to race their bikes around. You get a few ‘serious’ kids at the front end, but the rest are made up of kids on their Halfords specials giving it their all for whatever time they are racing for.
I’m missing the point … this is a set of 12/24 hour races … not a 1-2 hour XC
Typically XC events are 1-2 hours for a cat and the kids races already really short often only 15 – 30 mins …
If some kids want to spend 15 mins doing something like this then fine they can do that at any number of XC events all season… but surely a longer 2-4 hour race for the serious kids would be more in keeping with the adult events?