Name: Calum Chamberlain

Age: 15

Job: Paper-boy/GCSE student at Forest school.

Background: I have ridden mountain bikes for 5 years, and only 2 of those competitively. Although I seem to always have been going something competitive.  I came from a running backgound mostly, and have competed in many 1500m races for school and county.  I also did a fair amount of cross-country running, once again for school and county. I even made it onto the British talent team for my 1500m skills.  I also played rugby for about 3 years, playing mainly for Redingensians (which at one point meant representing England in the junior world cup!), but occasionaly making appearances at flanker for Berkshire.  Now I concentrate my time on my cycling which I could not live without.  I started off on the bike riding dirt and downhill, but somehow turned to the 'dark-side' of mountain biking (XC racing), stunning my friends by saying that I enjoyed the climb in White's level (Afan Argoed) almost as much as the descent!

Major results & Achievements:

2005

1st year at nationals and full southerns.

20th at the Thetford NPS

1st in the Southern XC youth rankings after 3 races

Failed to miss the ground with my face when the front wheel came off my road bike.

2004

Gorrick Juvenile race & series wins from here on down!

Also managed to wreck an orange 5 lent to me by Mountain Trax, and yet I somehow managed to get on the team this year!