Mountain Biking by Country - Mountain Biking in Canada, Mountain Biking in France, Mountain Biking in New Zealand (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mountain Biking in Canada, Mountain Biking in France, Mountain Biking in New Zealand, Mountain Biking in the United Kingdom, Tama Easton, Heaphy Track, Port Hills, Kennett Bros, Animal Commenal, Bottle Lake Forest, Mega Avalanche, Bethune's Gully, Adsvmq, Karapoti Classic. Excerpt: Tamatea Carl Easton (born 30 January 1974 in Christchurch), known as Tama Easton, is the creator of the New Zealand sports and recreation internet forum Vorb. Easton was born in Christchurch on 30 January 1974. Early on in his life, his family moved to Sussex, Great Britain, for long enough for him "to pick up enough of an English accent to get singled out when returned to New Zealand". In 1981 his family came back to New Zealand and settled in Wellington. Easton attended Clifton Terrace Model School from 1981 to 1986, followed by Wellington High School, from which he graduated in 1991. In 1992 and 1993, he studied at Victoria University towards degrees in Sociology and Education, which he did not finish. In 1981, Easton got his first computer, a ZX81 with 1 kB of RAM. As he was not able to afford the $16.95 needed to buy tapes of games for the computer, he developed his own games. This started his interest in computers and technology. Easton was online in either 1989 or even 1988 at a speed of 2.4 kbit/s long before many others had heard of the internet. In the book The Art of Videogames, which explores how philosophy of the arts theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames, the author acknowledges Easton as an "invaluable source of gaming discussion". Easton got into mountain biking in 1993 while living in Halfway Bush, Dunedin. A serious hobby developed out of this, and he saw himself flatting with like-minded people.... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25686413