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Ten year old Lewis Allbon from Year 5 at St Joseph’s O’Connor has been a keen bike rider for several years. He got his first bike at three years old and by five, had started riding to school every day. Afternoons and holidays were always spent at skate parks and dirt jumps, and over the years Lewis has ridden at over two hundred skate parks throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Lewis is an advocate of riding to school, and in 2013 at the annual “ Ride to School Day” he arranged for some of the Australian National Road Cycling team (including Caleb Ewan) to accompany the St Joseph’s children as they rode to school.
In 2015, Lewis was invited to ride in the “Lil Pros BMX Tour” in Qld and NSW, which is part of a global tour for kids doing tricks on their BMX bikes.
BMX racing has been another of Lewis’ cycling passions, and in 2016 at Canberra BMX Club in Melba, he won all three club series championships for 11-12 year olds, and was overall club champion for the year.
2016 saw Lewis move up to big wheeled mountain bikes and compete in events such as Downhill (DH), Gravity Enduro (GE), and Cross Country Olympic (XCO). Racing has taken him to many places in Qld, NSW and Victoria and lots of trips to Thredbo to practice. In his first year competing in the Under-13 category, Lewis finished 2nd in the 2017 National DH Championships at Mt Joyce Qld, 4th in the National DH series, 3rd in the 2017 XCO National Championships at Canungra Qld and 1st in the 2017 Oceania Championships at Toowoomba Qld.
Recently Lewis won two rounds in the Fox Rollercoaster Gravity Enduro series at Thredbo and Mt Stromlo. In the next school holidays Lewis will race the next round at Ourimba on the NSW Central Coast. August 2017 will be a busy month for Lewis as he travels to Canada to compete in Crankworx Whistler. He is looking forward to riding and racing at one of the world’s biggest bike parks and competing in the 10-12 year old Air Invitational DH to which he has been invited to attend.