Mangakino’s Kayne Lamont is back in blue.
The current New Zealand MX2 (250cc) motocross champion will race Yamaha again after this week signing a contract that will see the 21-year-old defend his title in 2015 on the new Yamaha YZ250F four-stroke.
WEATHER INTERVENES
The big annual Suzuki Six-Hour Dirt Bike Challenge near Tokoroa on Saturday was considerably shorter than in past years, the muddy racing abandoned even before the halfway stage of the marathon as conditions became steadily worse and the track simply “fell apart”.
WHEN THE TOUGH GOT GOING
The phrase “when the going gets tough; the tough get going” could have been created especially with Oparau youngster James Scott in mind.
KIWIS AMONG THE ELITE
Members of the 2014 Australian Junior Motocross team who competed at the World Junior Motocross Championships in Belgium last month took centre stage at the Australian Junior Motocross Championships at the Appin circuit last week.
MELANDRI IGNORES ORDERS
With just one round to go, this year’s World Superbike Championships could go down to the wire with just 12 points now separating the defending world champion from his nearest challenger.
CHAMPIONS EMERGE FROM MUD
Rain fell on the two-day North Island Junior Motocross Championships near Te Kuiti at the weekend but spirits were not dampened and champions emerged from the mud with smiles on their faces to accept glory in all seven separate classes.
IN LACKEY’S WHEEL TRACKS
The news of nine-times AMA motocross and supercross champion Ryan Villopoto moving to the FIM motocross world championship in 2015 really should make for some amazing racing and adds to the already strong Grand Prix series.
RAIN CAUSES HAVOC
The annual Suzuki Six-Hour Dirt Bike Challenge near Tokoroa today was considerably shorter than in past years, muddy racing abandoned after just two-and-a-half hours as conditions became steadily worse in the rain squalls, and the organisers have also been forced to postpone the Junior Suzuki Three-Hour Dirt Bike Challenge that had been planned for tomorrow.
SERVING THE BIKE COMMUNITY
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.
IT WILL BE TOUGH FOR VILLOPOTO
American former Grand Prix motocross rider Ryan Hughes offers his opinion about how current USA champion Ryan Villopoto might fare in Europe in 2015.
KIWIS CAPTURED AGAIN
BikesportNZ.com was thrilled to receive these photos from legendary photographer friend Ray Archer, who was on the ground in Latvia at the weekend and able to capture a few shots of our Kiwi heroes in action at the Motocross of Nations.
RUBBER STAMPED
Finally it’s officially confirmed.
We knew about this over a month ago and even questioned fellow American and former GP star Ryan Hughes about it; but then came the almost undeniable truth of the matter when it was revealed at a trade show in Cologne yesterday. But now we have the official word:
THEY MUST BE NUTS
Now in its fifth year, having grown in popularity year after year, the 2014 edition of the Nutbuster Hard Enduro at the weekend was certainly one for the record books.
VILLOPOTO TO EUROPE
Reports all across Europe have surfaced this morning that Kawasaki made it official today at the Cologne trade show that multi-time American motocross and supercross champion Ryan Villopoto has agreed to a deal that will have him racing the FIM World Motocross Championship in 2015.
More details expected soon.
SKILLS AND STAMINA REQUIRED
Have you got the skills, the pace and the strength to race a dirt bike at full-throttle for half a day?
WHIBLEY WRAPS IT UP EARLY
Pahiatua’s Paul Whibley is champion again in the United States.
The 35-year-old former Manawatu forestry worker, affectionately dubbed “The Axeman” on the international motorcycling scene, wrapped up the Off-Road Motorcycle and ATV (OMA) crown with a round to spare when he again dominated racing, this time at round seven at Council Bluffs, Iowa, at the weekend.
KIWIS CAPTURED
BikesportNZ.com had fabulous photographer friend Nuno Larajeira on the ground in Latvia at the weekend, on assignment for us to capture a few shots of our Kiwi heroes in action at the Motocross of Nations.
FOREST FRENZY
Two out of three isn’t bad … that is certainly the view of Palmerston North’s Adam Reeves.
With two wins from two starts, the talented Yamaha rider proved himself a dominant force at the Spectrum Woodhill Two-Man Cross-country Series this season. The only problem for him was that this was a three-round contest.
