Australian Kirk Gibbs is back on level terms, or maybe even just a little bit ahead, as the four-round 2019 New Zealand Motocross Championships reached the halfway point near Rotorua at the weekend.
Bay of Plenty’s Cody Cooper has been in some tough battles in the past, and won most of them, and so he is taking his latest skirmish in his stride.
West Auckland’s Hamish Harwood had to take the good with the bad at Rotorua at the weekend, but he still emerged with his title hopes intact in two categories.
The battle between the Kiwis and the Aussie invaders stepped up another gear as the four-round 2019 New Zealand Motocross Championships reached the halfway point near Rotorua at the weekend.
It could be New Zealand’s ultimate of extreme cross-country races, but don’t be frightened off by the event’s daunting title, because it will appeal to all levels of ability.
Distinctive orange KTM motorcycles have been gobbling up the roads and race tracks all around the world over the past few years and now it’s your chance to bring your KTM trackside.
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Kiwi former motocross world champion Ben Townley has signed on to become brand ambassador for Yamaha in New Zealand.
If you want to be the best, it pays to be coached by the best and that’s just what is being offered in the lead-up to the Mike Pero MotoFest at Hampton Downs in just two weeks’ time.
It didn’t quite go according to plan for defending champion Brad Groombridge, but it was perhaps good enough.
West Auckland’s Hamish Harwood is fighting a war on two fronts again this season and, so far at least, he’s winning them both.
There are a couple of new gunslingers in town and they mean business.
Half a dozen riders took their turn at the front at the opening round of the New Zealand Cross-country Championships near Norsewood on Sunday, but it was Raglan’s Jason Dickey who was in front when it mattered, at the end of the three-hour senior race.
We all know that photographers love to get close to the race action, but when is it too close for comfort?
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Marc Marquez and the Repsol Honda Team RC213V have been back on track and the current MotoGP world champion has immediately impressed observers.
Young Australian Hunter Lawrence had been expected to make his AMA supercross championship debut in Minneapolis this weekend, riding for Geico Honda at round one of the East Coast series.
Bike throttles will be twisted to the stops in the Central Hawke’s Bay region this weekend as the four-round 2019 New Zealand Cross Country Championships blast off.
Three riders and three podium results, it could almost be described as a perfect weekend for the Altherm JCR Yamaha Racing Team in Taranaki.
With plenty of talented riders, all armed with 450cc beasts, the MX1 class racing at the weekend was always going to be a thriller … and it certainly was that.