HONOUR FOR KIWI LEGENDS
Two legends of Kiwi motorcycling are to be inducted into the Motorcycling New Zealand Hall of Fame at this year’s New Zealand Motorcycle Awards Dinner later this month.
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CODD MAKES HIS MARK
His name may be Codd, but this Hawke’s Bay man is certainly no fish out of water.
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The 2018 MXGP Season’s sixth round is complete from the Russian circuit of Orlyonok. The MXGP of Russia hosted the best riders of the FIM Motocross World Championship with great success for the second year in a row. Different conditions, … Continue reading →
NZ TT NATIONALS 2018
If you can picture superbike racing on a grass track, then you’ll have no trouble at all imagining what it may look like at the annual New Zealand Miniature TT Championships near Huntly this weekend. Riders from all the various … Continue reading →
FERRIS FLAWLESS IN AUSTRALIA
Yamaha’s Dean Ferris continued his flawless MX1 class performance at round two of the Australian MX Nationals at the weekend. The CDR Yamaha Monster Energy Team’s two-time defending Thor MX1 champion again stamped his dominance on the premier class with … Continue reading →
SOLID SHOWING FROM KIWI RIDERS
There were several solid performances from the Kiwi riders at round two of the Australian Motocross Championships at Appin over the weekend. Mount Maunganui’s Rhys Carter (Kawasaki) was the most successful of the Kiwis, twice finishing seventh in the premier … Continue reading →
LATEST FROM THE MXGP WORLD
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DOVIZIOSO STILL HAS WORK TO DO
Italian hero Andrea Dovizioso feels he took ‘the maximum’ from his package in Sunday’s round three MotoGP outing in Texas to claim fifth, but finishing 13 seconds behind the winner – Spain’s Marc Marquez – was “not good”. Ducati rider … Continue reading →
KTM MAN LEADS AFTER ROUND TWO
Aucklander Tom Buxton is going places, fast. In just his fourth season in the premier grade, the 20-year-old from Helensville is now the man to beat on the national enduro scene, although the writing had probably been on the wall … Continue reading →
“ORANGE CRUSH” ON THE MENU
KTM New Zealand poured out a giant-sized serving of “orange crush” at the 2018 junior motocross nationals in the South Island at the weekend. Riders of the distinctive orange bikes stole the limelight at the two-day New Zealand Junior Motocross … Continue reading →
WATTS MEETS ALL TARGETS
The HLR Husqvarna Racing Team took a “Tommy Gun” into battle at the annual New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships at the weekend and completely out-gunned the competition. Wairoa’s Tommy Watts was simply unstoppable at the two-day event near Mosgiel, taking … Continue reading →
BUXTON SETS A HIGH STANDARD
Helensville’s Tom Buxton has set a high standard that will be hard to match on the national enduro scene this year. The 20-year-old KTM rider won both the opening two rounds of this year’s five-round New Zealand Enduro Championships series … Continue reading →
JUNIOR MX TITLES DECIDED
A title win in one class and overall runner-up finish in another meant Dunedin’s Grason Veitch was the top individual at the 2018 edition of the Backflips-sponsored New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships near Mosgiel at the weekend. Veitch won five … Continue reading →
MUSQUIN WINS FOXBOROUGH
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Marvin Musquin charged his way to victory in the 450SX class on Saturday in front of a packed crowd at Gillette Stadium for round 15 of the 2018 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship.
Continue reading →FLAT TRACK RACING AT ITS BEST
It’s the annual New Zealand Miniature TT Championships near Huntly this weekend. Riders from all the various dirt bike codes – and possibly a few road-racers too – will flock to the previously-untried course at Taupiri, just north of Hamilton, … Continue reading →
NEW CONTEST WAS AN INSPIRATION
A simple stroke of genius could probably be the best words to describe Suzuki’s inaugural GIXXER Cup competition this season.
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JUNIOR MX CHAMPS THIS WEEKEND
There is perhaps no better launch-pad for young Kiwi racers hoping to achieve international motocross fame and fortune than the New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships and this weekend should be no exception.
Continue reading →BATTLE-LINES IN THE BUSH
Brotherly love was put on hold last June when the 2017 New Zealand Enduro Championships went down to the wire in a battle between sibling rivals from Canterbury, Angus and Hamish Macdonald.
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