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  • White Christmas in Snowdonia.
    Matt Hart
    (27/12/2001)

    What an adrenalin rush - Mountain Biking in the snow! You’ve got to keep the bike upright though, because the slightest lean will take you off, but point you’re trusty steed in a straight line across a virgin snow field and you can hit 40 - no problem! I found this novel pursuit so inspirational that amusingly I found myself humming the ‘Ski Sunday’ anthem aloud as I carved my way through the thick white powder. Whatever turns you on I suppose?

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  • Competitive dad syndrome.
    Matt Hart
    (19/12/2001)

    Al Stuart, one of my riders, has been injured for the latter part of this year and is desperate to get back on his bike. While he can’t ride, he’s supporting his daughter Lauren in any way he can (as long as it has something to do with Mountain Biking). Proud father Al sent me the picture of Lauren below via e-mail after she’d completed her first ever Mountain Bike race, so I pressed him into writing a race report and this is what he sent me:

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  • I now have full control!
    Matt Hart
    (18/12/2001)

    Many apologies for the lack of recent updates to the TORQ website. Despite being pretty handy as a fitness consultant, I'm sadly a computer nerd! My good friend Simon (web designer extraordinaire) has selflessly spent large chunks of time with me to enable me to run this little show all by myself. At least, that's what he's lead me to believe...

    Features, research, fitness weekend info and news items will now be regularly updated, so please log onto the TORQ site every couple of weeks or so to check out what’s new.

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