He is one of the best off-road bike racers in the world and now Paul Whibley is hoping to create one of the best off-road racing competitions here at home.
MAD ADOLESCENT DAD TOUR
International sportsman, practical joker and media personality Steve Parrish brings his ‘Mad Adolescent Dad’ Tour down-under for the first time speaking at the Taupo Golf Course on Saturday, May 2, at 7.30pm.
BATTLE WON BUT WAR STILL RAGING
Pahiatua’s Paul Whibley has one hand on the New Zealand Cross-country Championships crown … or has he?
MASSIVE SET-BACK
The challenge of Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team’s Ryan Villopoto for the FIM World MXGP Motocross Championship received a temporary set-back when he was eliminated from the fourth round in Italy at the weekend.
KIWI IMPACT IN EUROPE
A podium finish in one of his races at the opening round of this year’s European 125cc Motocross Championships (EMX125) in Italy overnight has put Kiwi rider Josiah Natzke firmly on the leader-board.
NAGL DOES IT AGAIN
Germany’s Max Nagl has won his third GP out of four with victory at the Motocross Grand Prix of Trentino in Italy at the weekend, the fourth round of 18 in the world series.
SENSATIONAL ROSSI
Italy’s Valentino Rossi has taken a sensational victory after a masterful ride at the MotoGP of Argentina, the Gran Premio Red Bull de la República Argentina.
EUROPEAN CHAMPS UNDERWAY
The first rounds of the 2015 European Championship EMX250 and EMX125 took place at the weekend with Kiwi hero Josiah Natzke making a solid impression.
REA DOES THE DOUBLE
Britain’s Jonathan Rea stormed to an irresistible double victory at round four of the World Superbike Championships at Assen at the weekend.
DOING THE HARD YARDS
BikesportNZ.com gets around the place.
Almost every weekend, the BikesportNZ.com crew will pop up at some major event or another, on the spot to give you accurate, first-hand accounts of just what is happening in the motorcycling world.
THE RIVALRY CONTINUES
There are many more than just two riders contesting this year’s New Zealand Cross-country Championships, but, for the first half of the season at least, most of the focus has been almost exclusively on the battle between Pahiatua’s Paul Whibley and Mokau’s Adrian Smith.
MAY RECORDS HIS BEST RESULT
New Zealand’s Callan May continues to make advances in the United States.
Racing in the high-profile Grand National Cross-country Championships, the 22-year-old Yamaha rider from Titirangi, in Auckland, in just his second season of GNCC racing, tackled the fourth round of 13 in the series at Big Buck Creek in South Carolina on Sunday and came away with his best result of the season thus far.
A BIT OF A TRADITION
Winning motocross titles is becoming something of a tradition for the Chase family from Taupo.
Yamaha rider Wyatt Chase was simply unstoppable as he romped to five wins from five starts to easily win the 15-16 years’ 125cc motocross crown at the three-day New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships near Te Kuiti at the weekend.
WHIBLEY AND ALABASTER
There was simply no stopping Pahiatua’s Paul Whibley at the weekend.
Heavy rain leading up to the final round of the Central Cross Country Series near Eketahuna on Sunday had organisers scrambling to reroute parts of the track to make sure everyone could actually ride the course, not that two-time former American cross-country champion Whibley would have been expected to struggle with the conditions.
DOWN TO THE WIRE
Ngatea motocross racer Ben Broad has just had the weekend of his life in Te Kuiti.
MARQUEZ WINS IN USA AGAIN
Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez has returned to winning form in the weekend’s Red Bull GP of The Americas.
TRAIL RIDING BLISS
Trail riding is at its best this coming weekend in the form of the second two-day event of the KTM Six Days of Trail being held at Ohakuri Forest, just 35 kilometres north of Taupo.