STARTING TO SHOW PACE
Pre-season MotoGP testing wrapped up at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia this week with Yamaha’s Maverick Viñales, Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone and Honda’s Marc Marquez the best-performed individuals.
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BIDDLE BACK IN WSBK PADDOCK
New Zealand speed sensation Avalon Biddle will return to the WSBK paddock in 2017.
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Continue reading →STARTING GRIDS FILL UP
The international stars just keep on coming.
Continue reading →EXTRA SPICE FOR SUPERBIKE CHAMPS
It may be true that Kiwi internationals currently lead the New Zealand Superbike Championships after two of four rounds, but there will be added international flavour to the second half of the series when racing resumes next month.
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Continue reading →READY FOR THE FIGHT-BACK
A 10-point surplus turned into a 26-point deficit for defending national superbike champion Sloan Frost at the weekend, but the Suzuki man is still putting on a brave face.
Continue reading →RACE FANS SEEING RED
Superbike race fans have been seeing red this season, quite a bit of it in fact, and there’s plenty more to come.
Continue reading →NEW CHAMPIONSHIP LEADERS
Blink and you’ll miss something … that could well be the advice to spectators at this season’s New Zealand Superbike Championships after another topsy-turvy weekend of racing.
Continue reading →SERIES GIVEN A SHAKE-UP
The 2017 New Zealand Superbike Championships were given a massive shake-up on the first day of action at round two of the series near Invercargill today.
Continue reading →BLAST FROM THE PAST
Today we thought we’d again take a short trip back in time to feature a couple of classic snaps from the BikesportNZ.com archive.
Continue reading →EXPECT MORE FIREWORKS
It is a risky business, but if superbike racing was meant to be easy, then everyone would probably be doing it.
Continue reading →LATE STARTER; EARLY FINISHER
At age 46, you might call Taumarunui’s Leigh Tidman a late starter at national championships level, but he’s more than making up for that right now.
Continue reading →ANOTHER BUNCH OF FIRSTS
It has been quite a hot summer for Bay of Plenty’s Damon Rees and it’s only just got started.
Continue reading →ADVANTAGE TO FROST
The racing could not be much closer than was witnessed at the weekend’s opening round of four in this season’s New Zealand Superbike Championships.
Continue reading →FIRST SHOTS FIRED
The first shots have been fired today in what is expected to be a brutal war this season for national motorcycling glory.
Continue reading →COVERING THE SPORT
BikesportNZ.com is your one-stop shop for any news that’s related to bike sports – hence the name – particularly if you want to know about the Kiwi race scene or events involving New Zealand riders.
Continue reading →BLAST FROM THE PAST
Today, on the eve of the start of the 2017 New Zealand Superbike Championships, we thought we’d give you a brief “Foto Flashback” of some of our road-racing stars from the recent past.
Continue reading →SAIGER’S VIDEO DIARY
Watch Liechtenstein bike racer Horst Saiger’s video diary of his adventures at the Suzuki Series in New Zealand a few weeks ago.
Continue reading →READY TO RUMBLE?
The 2017 New Zealand Superbike Championships kick off in Christchurch this coming weekend and so will begin the battle to find the nation’s best motorcycle racers across half a dozen separate bike categories.
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