SUPERBIKES GEAR UP
After a six-week break, the fierce battle for national motorcycle road-race honours resumes this weekend.
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FUN AND FUNDRAISING TOO
The Mr Motorcycles Funday Motocross Series 2011 is coming up.
Continue reading →FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH
New Zealand’s Paul Whibley is going from strength to strength in the United States.
Continue reading →YOUTH VERSUS EXPERIENCE
It is youth versus experience at the top of the 600cc superstock standings in this season’s national superbike championships and, so far at least, it is experience that has the upper hand.
Continue reading →DESALLE WINS HAWKSTONE
Belgian Suzuki rider Clement Desalle topped the MX1 podium on Sunday by winning the MX1 class of the annual Hawkstone Park International.
Continue reading →STONER WINS ROUND ONE
It was the Repsol Honda show at the MotoGP opener in Qatar at the weekend.
Continue reading →FORM COUNTS FOR NOTHING
The form book was thrown out the window in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday night.
Continue reading →DOWN TO THE WIRE
The hunt for national dirt biking glory will go down to the wire in at least two of the four bike categories after a hot afternoon’s racing just outside Rotorua at the weekend.
Continue reading →JONES WARMS UP IN SPAIN
Former New Zealand 600cc class champion Gareth Jones is on track for glory after his first test of 2011 with the Wilbers – BMW team.
Continue reading →FRANTIC IN FAENZA
Italian MX1 world champion Antonio Cairoli and Russian Evgeny Bobryshev are fast building up for a good start to the MX1 motocross world championships as they finished top of the podium at round two of the Italian Motocross Championships in … Continue reading →
TAKING ON THE BIG BOYS
He may be one of the youngest racers in this year’s senior Demon Energy New Zealand Motocross Championships, but Tauranga’s Logan Blackburn is not one to be easily intimidated.
Continue reading →THE BOYS IN BLUE
The boys in blue have every reason to celebrate but they’re taking nothing for granted as the New Zealand Motocross Championships are set to pass the halfway stage this weekend.
Continue reading →MOTOGP KICKS OFF
Next month’s Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle race has been postponed until October because of the catastrophic damage from the earthquake, tsunami and radiation leaks.
Continue reading →HAWKSTONE PARK
With the opening round of the 2011 Motocross World Championship just a few weeks away, all riders make the best of their last opportunities to test their fitness and machinery in various international pre-season races.
Continue reading →NEGUS TARGETS TOP THREE
It’s hard to imagine Bay of Plenty’s Cameron Negus not racing motorcycles.
Continue reading →MEN OF THE MOMENT
Motueka’s Josh Coppins may be the man on top in the chase for national motocross championship glory but he cannot afford to relax as the series resumes near Rotorua this weekend.
Continue reading →EMMA CHECKS IN
Top New Zealand women’s motocross rider Emma Davis checks in on her latest adventures abroad with the DBG Kiwi Suzuki Team in the United Kingdom.
Continue reading →WHIBLEY BACK IN THE HUNT
New Zealand’s Paul Whibley is back in the hunt.
Continue reading →MAXIMUM RIDE
It was a truly maximum effort from American Zach Osborne as he dominated the opening round of the British Masters Motocross at the weekend.
Continue reading →CHANGES AT THE TOP
There were big changes at the top of the standings after round two of the North Island Cross-country Championships at Whangaruru, north of Whangarei, on Sunday.
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