{"id":18031,"date":"2016-06-10T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/06\/10\/introducing-spur-sizzling-skillz-video-series-r4956\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:08:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:08:50","slug":"introducing-spur-sizzling-skillz-video-series-r4956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/introducing-spur-sizzling-skillz-video-series-r4956\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Spur Sizzling Skillz video series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ariane Kleinhans and James Reid are helping Spur Schools Mountain Bike League participants sharpen their bike skills.<\/p>\n<p>While the Team Spur duo are busy preparing for the Marathon and Cross-country World Champs in Europe, they are also hoping a series of videos they release this week will inspire the next generation of mountain biking superstars back home in South Africa to get out on their bikes more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/laQ1NZlweE8?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Spur Sizzling Skills videos will take riders from the Spur Schools League through a series of basic technical and mechanical skills, such as rolling over bumps, hitting drop-offs, mastering fast starts, tackling steep climbs as well as fixing punctures quickly and the smooth handing out of water bottles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikehub.co.za\/features\/_\/articles\/videos\/video-spur-sizzling-skillz-pre-race-bike-check-r4957\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Episode 1<\/a> features Team Spur mechanic JP Jacobs, taking viewers through a basic pre-race bike check. A Spur Sizzling Skillz video will be released each week in the build-up to the Spur Schools Mountain Bike League Final, which takes place in Magaliesburg, Gauteng on the weekend of 8-9 October, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Spur Schools League ambassadors Ariane and James will be at the National Final in October and will be able to see first-hand how many scholars have mastered the basic building blocks to riding fast and having more fun on a mountain bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariane Kleinhans and James Reid are helping Spur Schools Mountain Bike League participants sharpen their bike skills. While the Team Spur duo are busy preparing for the Marathon and Cross-country World Champs in Europe, they are also hoping a series of videos they release this week will inspire the next generation of mountain biking superstars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2298,2157,869,431,135],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-and-advice","tag-ariane-kleinhans","tag-james-reid","tag-skills","tag-spur-schools-mtb-league","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18031"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}