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Promising junior track cyclist Shaylah Sayers won six titles at her first Cycling New Zealand national championships last month on the bike she bought with her pocket money. Photo: John Cosgrove

Shaylah Sayers' path to the track national championships inside Cycling New Zealand’s state-of-the-art velodrome in Cambridge started on a mountain bike trail in Bottle Lake Forest Park, compelling her parents to go along for the ride. Chris Barclay reports on the leg work required to develop Canterbury’s next generation of champion cyclists