FLYING!
over
barriers
with
sheer determination,
and
cutting up single track
on skills honed by the backwoood race courses of Oregon MTB racing,
is now leading Cyclisme
into the
While only 13 years old, he is rated the BEST 14year old in the State!
Thats a lot of "13 year old."
In the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association's rating system this 13 year old Junior is leading OBRA's thirteenth ranked team "Word-RCB" into the winter season discipline Cyclocross.
Originally a new to Portland Arizona transplant, he was led by his cousin Caezar to join a young Dey Shaun Lee out at the Alpenrose velodrome, back in 2007.
From his days towing the disabled back and forth from PSU University to Powell's bookstore, to pacelining at the ghettodrome; then from winning medals at Alpenrose to long drives around Oregon with his men's Mt. Bike Team.
Angel has risen.
But his biggest moves have not been on the bike, but in the classroom and after school. Naiqwan attends the SEI Academy where he is known as "Angel." Once he started attending Tony Hopson's famous school where "Life Has Options," his grades improved.
After school, he gets on his cycling clothes, and is soon met by one of his elder teammates who ride with him across town to homework sessions at the Woodstock Library, with lunch and yard work and yoga at the Atomic Ranch. By being respectful and open to everyone's advice he has pulled the team together.
Himself, for beginners like 40 year old metal worker Fergus Kinnel, he is a fine coach of the many skills involved in getting around the velodrome, but Naiqwan has has also enjoyed receiving excellent coaching and mentoring. Examples include Jake Hasnen on abdominals and strength as well as day to day road training, and Greg O'Brien who has driven him to mountain bike races, paid fees, and taken special care to create the best bicycle possible, despite limited resources.
6 comments:
This kid is so skilled in racing. May you continue to inspire other kids also.
Thanks for this post about river city bicycles. Keep up the good work.
How I wish that I can join a competition such as this. I love this game.
It has been years already that I haven't been into biking. I want to do it again.
There is indeed a time for everything. And, thus I would also love to be a part of this team.
Why. I do appreciate and commend that each one should exercise first before getting into biking skills. Every muscle should be relaxed first. I love the routine.
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