Posts Tagged ‘ Bike On ’
Paul McArdle receives the Greater Wellington Regional Council Cycling Champion of the Year Award from Wellington Regional Council Chair; Fran Wilde. This award is for contributions made by individual New Zealanders for the promotion of cycling. St Mary’s School in Hastings also won the Avanti Award for Best Cycle Facility Project for their Bikes In [ READ MORE ]
Work on the tracks are finished, the bikes are ready, the schools have had fantastic official openings but most importantly the kids are riding and having fun. Thank you to everyone who helped make it possible[ READ MORE ]
Peterhead School and Maraenui Bilingual School are ready for the diggers. Dave Gordon (Baywide Dingoes) has designed and is going to build the limestone track at Maraenui and the pump tracks at both schools. Jonathan Kennett (Kennett Brothers) has designed the skills tracks for both schools and will build them alongside Brent Millar (Brent’s Handyman [ READ MORE ]
The plans are in place for two new Bikes in Schools programs. Peterhead School in Flaxmere and Maraenui Bilingual School in Napier. Both schools are in the Hawkes Bay. Bike On New Zealand is thankful to the Infinity Foundation, Endeavour Community Trust, the Lion Foundation, the Jarrod Cunningham Trust, and Sport Hawkes Bay for their [ READ MORE ]
The official opening of Bikes in Schools was a great day for all the children, teachers, parents, and guests that attended.It was great to have Sarah Walker, the double world BMX champion, attend and also ride the different bike tracks.The PM John Key had a great time also. He even got on a bike and [ READ MORE ]
Jonathan Kennett, of Kennett Brothers fame, very generously designed, built and fully tested the extremely popular Kennett Brother Bike Skills Track for the students of St Mary’s School Hastings.This is the most challenging of all the tracks and kids absolutely love it. We have yet to see a teacher do this track!See the video below [ READ MORE ]
Jonathan Kennett, of Kennett Brothers fame, very generously designed, built and fully tested the extremely popular Kennett Brother Bike Skills Track for the students of St Mary’s School Hastings.Here he is further testing his track. Jonathan spent many hours testing and re testing the track to get it just right!It is not easy to ride [ READ MORE ]
Here is the link to the TV One Close Up coverage of the BikeOn launch. http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/bikes-kids-3372374/video[ READ MORE ]
The TV1 Close Up Reporter and camera man make great use of a bike to film two St Mary’s teachers on the opening day of Bikes in the School at St Mary’s School.This section of filmiing made it to the story that was broadcast that night. more about “TV1 Close Up filming at St Mary’s [ READ MORE ]
Sarah Walker tries out the pump track at St mary’s on opening day. more about “BMX World Champ Sarah Walker on the P…“, posted with vodpod[ READ MORE ]
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