What a year! Starting in January with a stunning victory at the Dakar Rally, GasGas Factory Racing’s Sam Sunderland has become the 2022 FIM World Rally-Raid Champion.
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It is perhaps long overdue, but finally New Zealand motorcycling legend Hugh Anderson has been lauded among the historic greats of the sport.
Continue reading →All the riding skills in the world, plus more, were going to be needed just to cope with the notoriously-difficult Husqvarna Hard Adventure Enduro event, being staged at various venues in and around Tokoroa over Labour Weekend.
Continue reading →Expect to see champions of the past, present and future locked in heated battles at the annual New Zealand Veterans’ and Women’s Motocross Championships on the outskirts of Cambridge this weekend.
Continue reading →It was her first time racing in New Zealand, but you wouldn’t have guessed that when watching Honda rider Taylah McCutcheon demolish her rivals in Taupo over the Labour Weekend.
Continue reading →It has been a few seasons now of slogging away against the best in the business, but now New Zealand’s Rachael Archer is herself the best in the business, top of the tree in the United States.
Continue reading →Predictability is fast becoming a byword for Southland youngster Seth Morrow … and that’s a good thing, especially if it means being renowned for outstanding performances in multiple categories at the same event.
Continue reading →The cream of the crop descended on Taranaki at the weekend for the 2022 edition of the New Zealand ATV Motocross Championships and they delivered intense race action of the highest order.
Continue reading →Making it look easy, as all the best sportsmen seem to do, Porirua’s Dylan Ball romped to his third consecutive national crown at the 2022 New Zealand Trial Championships in Southland over the long Labour Weekend.
Continue reading →The 2022-23 New Zealand motocross season could not have kicked off much better for Bay of Plenty racer Cody Cooper.
Continue reading →From nine-time motocross world champion to head of the KTM factory’s racing efforts, the racing career of Italian legend Antonio Cairoli has come full circle.
Continue reading →A courier package arrived at the BikesportNZ.com office door and we hurriedly ripped it open … it contained a brand, spanking new hardback book called “Kiwi Bikers – 85 New Zealanders and their motorbikes” and it was crying out for … 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 →With just two races remaining in the MotoGP season, it goes down to the wire with Italy’s Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia now in the driving seat.
Continue reading →Do you have a good dirt bike? Do you have insane riding skills? Are you tough and resourceful? Or maybe you’re just extremely lucky?
Continue reading →The ultimate level in the sport of motorcycle trial riding heads to the Southland region for the first time in more than 10 years when it hosts the nationals over Labour Weekend.
Continue reading →The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic created a two-year hiatus for the sport of quad bike racing, so we will surely see throttles turned to the max when racing reignites at the 2022 New Zealand ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) Motocross … Continue reading →
Italy’s Andrea Verona has been officially crowned at the seventh round of the FIM Enduro GP World Championships in Germany, claiming the E1 title for 2022 that he’d actually already wrapped up at the previous round in Hungary.
Continue reading →Four seasons, two MX2 World Championship titles, 24 GP wins and 46 podiums … those are impressive figures in anyone’s language.
Continue reading →Sit back and enjoy this wonderful behind-the-scenes documentary from the Honda Racing Corporation and the Repsol Honda Team.
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