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When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 5:08 pm | Bikesport NZ
This weekend’s racing – with equal points assigned to both days of action and then added together – will be the first round of seven in the 2025 Yamaha New Zealand Hard Enduro Nationals that will feature racing in both the North and South Islands ... More >>
Korito Technical Matrix Now Part Of National Series
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 1:08 pm | Bikesport NZ
The KTM will be recognised this year also as the first phase of round one of seven in the New Zealand Hard Enduro Nationals, a competition that will feature racing in both the North and South Islands and finally wrap up near Wellington in November. More >>
Cross-country Series Sees Return Of The Champions
Monday, 24 March 2025, 2:39 pm | Bikesport NZ
The four-round Yamaha-sponsored series wrapped up near Gore with two thrilling back-to-back races, rounds three and four, on Thursday and then two days later (on Saturday) and, for both the junior and senior silverware, it will be familiar names being sent off ... More >>
Final Two Rounds Of Racing Near Gore This Weekend
Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 3:15 pm | Bikesport NZ
Two rounds in the South Island, both at venues near Gore, will wrap up the title chase this week, with round three this coming Thursday (March 20) and then the fourth and final round on Saturday (March 22). More >>
Premier Silverware, Lap Records Captured By Rees
Monday, 17 March 2025, 10:18 am | Bikesport NZ
When the fourth and final round at the annual motorcycle road-racing series wrapped up at the Taupo International Motorsport Park circuit on Sunday, the 32-year-old was content to sit back and reflect upon a season that saw him claim his third national ... More >>
Honda Superbike Family Affair Continues At Pace
Sunday, 9 March 2025, 10:30 pm | Bikesport NZ
Evergreen multi-time former New Zealand champion Tony Rees said he was thrilled to be able to again join his son on the podium and, depending on what transpires at the fourth and final round at Taupo next weekend, the championships may well end ... More >>
Massive Learning Experience For Kiwis In Australia
Sunday, 23 February 2025, 6:40 pm | Bikesport NZ
The next round of the New Zealand Superbike Championships series is set for Hampton Downs, north of Hamilton, on the weekend of March 8-9 and perhaps what they each learned at Phillip Island will help to elevate them in that separate domestic contest. More >>
Winning Ways Continue For Honda’s Mitch Rees
Saturday, 15 February 2025, 7:34 pm | Bikesport NZ
The Honda man from Whakatane has now won five out of six races in the premier class. More >>
Father And Son Finish 2-1 At Superbikes Opener
Sunday, 9 February 2025, 9:34 pm | Bikesport NZ
A two-time former New Zealand champion in the premier 1000cc Superbike class, the 32-year-old Mitch Rees took his Honda CBR1000 to qualify fastest and then found himself battling with his 57-year-old father Tony at the front of the field over both days ... More >>
Rangitikei Opens Series With Two Scorchers
Monday, 3 February 2025, 8:32 pm | Bikesport NZ
FEBRUARY 3, 2025: And there we have it – after one extremely hectic weekend, New Zealand’s motorcycling community is already halfway towards discovering who will be crowned the nation’s top cross-country racers for 2025. The four-round Yamaha ... More >>
An Almost Perfect Start To Dudson’s Title Defence
Monday, 3 February 2025, 6:23 pm | Bikesport NZ
The Honda ace from Rotorua kicked off round one the 2025 cross-country nationals on Friday by winning the day comfortably ahead of Taupo’s three-time former national champion Brad Groombridge. More >>
Green Riders Impress At First Big Hit-Out For 2025
Friday, 31 January 2025, 5:18 pm | Bikesport NZ
Horne was in sparkling form in 2024, taking her Kawasaki KX250F to win national titles on both sides of the Tasman Sea – crowned junior champion in New Zealand and Australia in the same season – so her performances at the weekend probably came as a surprise ... More >>
Rangitikei To Host Opening Round Of Series On Friday
Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 1:47 pm | Bikesport NZ
The four-round Yamaha New Zealand Cross-country Nationals series will launch on farmland at Waituna West, near Rewa, on Friday, with the second round of the popular off-road motorcycling series set to be staged just two days later, on similar terrain, also ... More >>
62nd Annual Woodville Mxgp An Event Of Extremes
Monday, 27 January 2025, 4:08 pm | Bikesport NZ
With 30-degree heat beating down on the racers, along with billowing dust, on Saturday, and then rain and mud testing the riders in a vastly different way on Sunday, the more than 600 riders entered certainly had to bring their ‘A game’ to cope with ... More >>
Winning Start To 2025 For Honda Star Bourke
Monday, 27 January 2025, 3:26 pm | Bikesport NZ
The racing conditions were extreme and contrasting for riders at the 62nd annual Honda New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix at Woodville at the weekend, the first major event for the 2025 season. More >>
It’s About As Tough As Any Dirt Bike Event Can Be
Sunday, 26 January 2025, 4:06 pm | Bikesport NZ
Set for Saturday, February 1, it is the country’s premier extreme enduro event, run by the man who should know, Tokoroa enduro wizard Sean Clarke. More >>
Wealth Of Racing Talent Flocks To Woodville GP
Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 2:29 pm | Bikesport NZ
Racing over the two days will attract thousands of spectators to the Tararua region, filling motel rooms and camping grounds to the point of overflowing, the Honda-sponsored event at Woodville proving to be a must-see spectacle for many motorsports enthusiasts. More >>
2025 Honda New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix At Woodville: Greatest Show On Turf A Memorial Event
Monday, 13 January 2025, 3:59 pm | Bikesport NZ
The popular event celebrated its 60th in birthday in January 2021, but then the pandemic reared its ugly head and forced almost every major sporting competition nationwide, actually worldwide too, to be shut down the following year. More >>
Versatile Suzuki Racers Lead The Way In Series
Friday, 27 December 2024, 5:00 pm | Bikesport NZ
The racing was incredibly tight, with Dibben winning round one in Taupo by four points over Frost, then Frost responding to better Dibben by three points at Manfeild’s round two and they were virtually equal at the final round of the series. More >>
Father-and-son Honda Team Finish First And Second
Friday, 27 December 2024, 12:20 pm | Bikesport NZ
The dynamic duo from Whakatane then headed to the third and final round on the world-famous Cemetery Circuit in Whanganui on Boxing Day running first and second in the standings for the premier Formula One/Superbikes class. More >>