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Life is looking up for Bay of Plenty’s Ryan Metz.
The unheralded Yamaha rider stunned onlookers when he zoomed onto the podium at round two of the New Zealand Motocross Championships at Tokoroa two weeks ago, his career-best achievement at this ultimate level of domestic motocross competition.
Completing a gruelling six-hour dirt bike race is one thing, but to do it all alone is quite another.
But that’s what Taumarunui farmer Kevin Taylor did at Matata, in the Bay of Plenty, at the weekend.
Engine capacity doesn’t mean anything when it comes to racing motorcycles over extreme terrain.
So said Bay of Islands rider Mitchell Nield shortly after taking his Yamaha YZ125 to finish a superb third overall at the muddy opening round of the New Zealand Enduro Championships in rain-drenched forest near Whangamata just over a week ago.
The Kawasaki men have a point to prove at the fourth and final round of the Bel Ray Cross-country Championships in the North Waikato region this weekend.
Here’s the Backflips video from round two of the New Zealand Motocross Championships at Tokoroa.
Pahiatua’s Paul Whibley and Titirangi’s Callan May are up and running in the United States.
The 35-year-old Whibley is a two-time former American cross-country motorcycle champion – he won the Grand National Cross-country Championships in 2008 and again in 2012 as well as winning the parallel but separate Off-Road Motorcycle and ATV series on numerous occasions – and he has plans to add to his curriculum vitae (CV) with another successful campaign this season.
More than 2000 Southland fans witnessed some of the most incredible riding New Zealand has ever seen, as Kiwi FMX hero Levi Sherwood, Australian BMXer Brandon Loupos and the British MTB rider Matt Jones saw off some stiff competition to claim the 2014 Farm Jam crowns.