Baseboys and Barbershop hold mountain bike race

The growing popularity of cycling in Belize has prompted many people, including those who started riding just to lose weight, to enter organised competitive events. One such event this Sunday is designed specifically for the group of people who call themselves Baseboys and Barbershop crews. And believe me, with the egos involved, all bets are off. Come dawn on d-day an estimated fifty riders from Belize City, Cayo, and Orange Walk will saddle up for the mountain bike version of the Cross Country which will cover more than sixty miles, running north from Roaring Creek, through Boom and then to mile twenty-five and a quarter on the Northern Highway. Coordinator Gerald Garbutt told us earlier this week the details of the race route and the prizes up for grabs.

Gerald Garbutt, Coordinator, Mountain Bike Cross Country
?These are strictly mountain bikers. No person will grab a mountain bike last minute and come and enter, we want to keep it that order. We have some very attractive prizes. Right now as we speak, the prize is at eleven hundred dollars for first place, a beautiful trophy, and dinner for two. The race will start in Roaring Creek in front of Garbutt gas station, going to the roundabout in Belmopan; we have about five prizes in there, and come out and take the Western Highway. Coming down to the Western Highway on top a hill at mile forty-four we have a gold bracelet for station prize value five hundred dollars. And we have several other station prizes. And also what we call the circuit and we?ll finish at Crocland Farm.?

According to Garbutt, the race commissar will be Ainsworth Tzul. Following the prize ceremony, there will be a district domino competition as well as food and drinks on sale.