The Burt Munro Challenge always attracts bike enthusiasts from all around the country and the 2024 edition of the week-long festival will now also feature the New Zealand Superbike Championships.
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Continue reading →Pecco Bagnaia has held on to his MotoGP World Championship lead but is now just a solitary point clear of fellow Italian Marco Bezzecchi after a drama-filled round five in France at the weekend.
Continue reading →It was a breakthrough moment for young New Zealander Cormac Buchanan at round three of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup at Le Mans, in France, at the weekend.
Continue reading →Argentina’s Marco Morelli sits on pole for only the second-ever Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup race at Le Mans, in France, this weekend.
Continue reading →Spain’s Marc Marquez makes his much-anticipated return to restore the Repsol Honda Team and re-join Joan Mir, both looking for stable weekends during a milestone event.
Continue reading →New Zealand’s most popular motorcycle road-race series has become a global phenomenon since its inception back in 2008 and the pre-Christmas competition looks set to go big again in 2023.
Continue reading →Maximo Quiles robbed fellow Spaniard Angel Piqueras of his fourth Red Bull Rookies Cup victory on the run in to the line chased by Álvaro Carpe for an all-Spanish Jerez podium at the weekend.
Continue reading →A third win in a row hides just how hard Angel Piqueras is battling for his advantage in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, but that’s what he achieved at round two of the series at Jerez, in Spain, overnight.
Continue reading →The Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup is where young racers drive their World Championship ambitions. Rookies have already gone on to win 10 world titles in the Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP classes.
Continue reading →As many as 17 different flags adorn the front wheel fairings of the KTM RC 250R bikes as a slew of teenagers, including a Kiwi, chase their dreams in the 2023 Red Bull Rookies Cup.
Continue reading →Want to know what’s happening on the motorcycling scene in New Zealand and abroad too? Well check out the latest issue of Kiwi Rider … it is waiting to be read right here …
Continue reading →Spain’s Alex Rins has joined an exclusive club, now alongside fellow MotoGP top dogs Valentino Rossi, Max Biaggi and Maverick Viñales.
Continue reading →Two of the sport’s leading protagonists will miss the next event in this year’s MotoGP championships, multi-time champion Marc Marquez and Enea Bastianini.
Continue reading →Riding the crest of a wave, Kiwi sidecar pair Tracey Bryan and Jo Franzen are now heading to the United States to test themselves against the elite in that part of the world.
Continue reading →Want to know what’s happening on the motorcycling scene in New Zealand and abroad too? Well check out the latest issue of Kiwi Rider … it is waiting to be read right here …
Continue reading →It was an all-Ducati podium at Termas de Rio Hondo, round two of this season’s MotoGP world championships in Arrgentina at the weekend.
Continue reading →Italy’s Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia powered to another superb win at Portimao, the opening round of the 2023 MotoGP season in Portugal and will be hoping to do the same at round two in Argentina this weekend.
Continue reading →Could young Auckland motorcycle road-racer Haydn Fordyce be New Zealand’s next Graeme Crosby, Hugh Anderson, Ginger Molloy, Robert Holden, Shaun Harris, Aaron Slight, Simon Crafar or Andrew Stroud, a rider to truly shake up the bike scene internationally?
Continue reading →It is the 17th season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and 17 different flags adorn the front wheel fairings of the KTM RC 250R’s as a slew of teenagers, including a Kiwi, chase their dreams in the opening … Continue reading →