Billy first got on a bike as a three-year-old, with his balance bike going everywhere with him. <\/p>\n
“It even came to weddings,” said Matthew Pugh, Billy’s father.<\/p>\n
Matthew, who is also a bike enthusiast, said he knew his son “had something special” when he first beat him in a downhill race as a 10-year-old.<\/p>\n
Billy later went on to work his way up through the ranks and started competing in races across the world. <\/p>\n
But since starting his three-year apprenticeship a year and a half ago, Billy has had to find a way to fit in both.<\/p>\n
“It can be quite tough at times. There’s a lot of sacrifice to race at that level and work full-time,” said Matthew. <\/p>\n
But, for Billy, it is all worth it: “The pure adrenaline rush that you get out of it just trying to go as fast as you can, it’s really good fun,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy first got on a bike as a three-year-old, with his balance bike going everywhere with him. “It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-433814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}