SIX OF THE BEST
One bike, one man, six hours – that’s an awful lot to ask for.
Continue reading →Yearly Archives: 2012
WAIKATO CHAMPS
The North King Country Motorcycle Club proudly presents the McIndoe Group Waikato Champs on Saturday and Sunday, November 3 and 4.
Continue reading →SETBACK FOR WHIBLEY
Pahiatua cross-country motorcycle ace Paul Whibley has suffered a set-back in the United States, but it’s mostly of his own doing.
Continue reading →JUST HALF A POINT
The World Superbike Championship has come down to some nail-biting conclusions in its 25 years, but the 2012 World Superbike Championship is destined to be remembered as the closest and most keenly contested of all time.
Continue reading →SUZUKI SIX-HOUR SUCCESS
In a return to past glory, this year’s resurrected Suzuki Six-Hour off-road dirt bike marathon on Saturday was a resounding success.
Continue reading →MILLION DOLLAR RIDE
Palmerston North’s Levi Sherwood has joined the ranks of New Zealand’s most highly-paid sports stars by claiming an international motocross championship. The 21-year-old has banked a million dollars after becoming the youngest-ever overall winner of the Red Bull X-Fighter world … Continue reading →
HITTING THE MAINSTREAM
This web site is about so much more than just cutting and pasting work done by other people. Once again this week, BikesportNZ.com has given you plenty of exclusive, fresh and original content on-line, as well as saturating the mainstream … Continue reading →
AUSTRALIAN JUNIORS
After a week of blistering motocross action, competition has come to a close at the 2012 Honda Australian Junior Motocross Championship (AJMX) in Coolum with the names of 16 new Aussie Champions etched in the record books.
Continue reading →MEN AT WORK
Here’s a neat video clip of Kiwi Josh Coppins and Estonia Tanel Leok as they prepared for the Motocross of Nations just over a week ago.
Continue reading →CRACKING THE NUTBUSTER
Now in its third year of running, the Value Cars Nutbuster Hard Enduro was held near Oxford in Canterbury on September 29, and this time around it came under attack from a group of North Island dirt bike stars.
Continue reading →IDENTIFY THE RIDERS
The BikesportNZ.com photo archive is a treasure trove of classic old snaps. We have decided that each week we are going to run an archive photo or two – a bit of a guessing game for you. See if you … Continue reading →
LET’S COUNT THAT AGAIN
New Zealand has always boxed above its weight on the world’s sports fields, but we at BikesportNZ.com feel it is time to look at a new way of tallying up the points.
Continue reading →NO COMMENT NEEDED
After years of suffering bad luck at the Motocross of Nations, everything finally fell into place for Italy’s Antonio Cairoli at the sandy Lommel circuit in Belgium this time around.
Continue reading →A DYNAMIC DUO
Winning three national cross-country crowns must count for something and Palmerston North’s Adam Reeves believes it might just be the edge he needs to conquer this weekend’s Suzuki Six-Hour Dirt Bike Marathon near Taupo.
Continue reading →WHIBLEY UNDER “FRIENDLY FIRE”
Pahiatua’s Paul Whibley is proving to be unstoppable in the United States. The 34-year-old former Manawatu forestry worker, affectionately dubbed “The Axeman” on the motorcycling scene, raced his way to yet another victory in the United States at the weekend, … Continue reading →
KINGS OF THE SAND
There is no doubt that Team Germany was clearly the dominant nation of this year’s 66th edition of the Motocross of Nations, all the riders obtaining solid results.
Continue reading →TITLE CHASE TIGHTENS UP
Spain’s Dani Pedrosa kept the pressure on MotoGP title favourite and fellow Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo with a dominant victory at their home GP at Aragon at the weekend, the 14th round of 18 in the series.
Continue reading →PENNY HOPES TO CASH IN
Te Awamutu’s Mark Penny is in red-hot form at the moment and the timing could not be more crucial with the big Suzuki Six-Hour dirt bike marathon set for this Saturday.
Continue reading →WIN STRING SNAPPED
The American win streak has been broken and Germany are the new Motocross of Nations champions.
Continue reading →A MUST-WIN RACE
Team New Zealand is again headed for the B final at the Motocross of Nations this year. The deep and unforgiving sand of Lommel in Belgium claimed the Kiwis among its many victims during the qualification stage of the big … Continue reading →