Phil Lovett is well known on the international dirt bike scene. The man from Cessnock, in New South Wales, made a name for himself by winning the famous Finke Desert Race on three memorable occasions – in 1981, 1982 and … Continue reading →
Wellington’s Jake Whitaker is a fast learner … and a teacher too. The 22-year-old seven-time former and current national moto trials champion recently switched his sporting focus to an entirely different form of motorcycle competition, off-road enduro riding, and already … Continue reading →
Pahiatua’s Paul Whibley picked up his new 2014-model Yamaha YZ450 just a couple of weeks ago and already he’s placed it on the top step of the winner’s rostrum.
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Continue reading →Watch the start to this year’s Bel Ray Cross-country Series, the opening round staged on farmland east of Huntly on Sunday.
Continue reading →Watch out for the moto trials boys to strike hard this weekend. The third round of the popular KTM Extreme Enduro Series heads to Tokoroa on Saturday, where what could be described as a “supercross of enduro” has been set … Continue reading →
Te Kuiti’s Sean Kelly has a message for his rivals … “you’d better take me seriously”. The 15-year-old Kawasaki ace was runaway winner of the 90-minute junior race at the opening round of the Bel Ray Cross-country Championships near Huntly … Continue reading →
Mokau’s Adrian Smith will probably count Sunday’s cross-country motorcycle race victory among one of his greatest. The three-time former and reigning national cross-country champion was one of many of New Zealand’s elite off-road bike racers who turned up to help … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Here’s a little clip from the weekend’s second annual Yamaha Taikorea 500.
Continue reading →The Bel-Ray Cross-country Championships kick off near Huntly this weekend with a virtual Who’s Who of New Zealand’s off-road motorcycling talent signing up for battle.
Continue reading →The unthinkable happened at Taikorea, just outside Palmerston North, on Saturday – a rider who now describes himself as semi-retired, with no build-up events under his wheels in recent months, showed up with last year’s technology and won the event … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →A comeback from injury to top-level, high-speed off-road motorcycle racing is always a difficult proposition and sometimes it can even be a little scary.
Continue reading →New Zealand enduro champion Chris Birch finished runner-up at the three-day Roof of Africa Hard Enduro, which wrapped up in Lesotho at the weekend. The KTM ace, a former winner at the Roof of Africa, battled to finish with a … Continue reading →
KTM reports with great sadness that American KTM factory rider Kurt Caselli died as the result of injuries sustained in a crash while competing in the SCORE/Baja 1000 at the weekend.
Continue reading →Pahiatua’s Paul Whibley is philosophical about his disappointing 2013 off-road motorcycle racing campaign in the United States. The 35-year-old Whibley, a former Manawatu forestry worker who is affectionately dubbed “The Axeman” on the international motorcycling scene, won two major cross-country … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Mokau’s Adrian Smith likes a challenge and this weekend it will be an extreme one. The Yamaha ace will take his Blackwood BikesportNZ.com YZ250 machine into battle at round two of the KTM Extreme Enduro Championships in the Riverhead Forest … Continue reading →
It’s time for riders to make their mark in the KTM Extreme Enduro Series as round two heads into the trees of the Riverhead Forest this coming weekend.
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