After winning the overall medium course title in last year's Nduro Events Summer Cup cross country mountain biking series, Rotorua's Taylor Johnston has moved up to the longer distance this summer.
He doesn't, however, think he will make it two series wins in a row.
The 17-year-old Western Heights student finished sixth overall and second to Rotorua's Hamish Dodd in the junior category in the first round in Palmerston North last month. The second round in Tokoroa was postponed and the final round takes place in the Redwoods Forest tomorrow."After the first one, [to win] I'd need to do really well and some people need to do badly," said the Mountain Bike National Performance Hub rider.
He said the move to the longer distance was a natural progression for him and riders of a similar age.
"A lot of the people I was racing against [last year] have moved up too - and it's the same sort of distance as the winter series.''