elemental
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Sports type (action) photography is one of the most demanding on equipment. With a $500 budget there is very little out there that would keep me happy. If I had to... I would go with a film camera and put whatever I had left over into a good lens. Heck.. most lenses will consume the $500 budget by itself.
There is so much focus on the camera body.. but people forgot about the lens.... Shooting a K10D or K20D (for example) with a 18-55 kit lens is going to be extremely limiting when it comes to downhill mountain biking...
Depends on where he's shooting from. The other thing that led me to recommend a K10D or even the Pentax system in general is the availability of sub-$100 K-mount telephotos on eBay, so yes, I did think of that.
You are definitely right that the lens is more important that the camera, but no DSLR under $500 is going to come with an adequate kit lens unless it's a two-lens kit, and that will probably run over $500 while still providing sub-par glass.