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Competing At Trial Champs A Massive Balancing Act
Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 1:06 pm | Bikesport NZ
OCTOBER 27, 2020: Porirua's Dylan Ball has done it again, but it was never easy for the talented teenager, pushed all the way by a wily old veteran in the 2020 New Zealand Trial Championships in Canterbury over Labour Weekend. Ball won the premier ... More >>
Birch Shows World Class In Winning Extreme Enduro
Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 12:58 pm | Bikesport NZ
OCTOBER 27, 2020: You just know it is probably going to be a last-man-standing scenario when riders line up to tackle any extreme enduro event. The Husqvarna Hard Adventure Enduro, staged each Labour Weekend in forestry land near Tokoroa, is loosely modelled ... More >>
Quad Bike Racing At Its Best In Timaru
Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 5:57 am | Bikesport NZ
Stratford's Camo Keegan (Honda TRX450R), successful in defending his premier grade title at the weekend. Photo by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com The cream of the crop descended on Timaru at the weekend for the 2020 edition of the New Zealand ATV championships ... More >>
Cooper In Ominous Form, Even So Early In The Season
Monday, 26 October 2020, 6:57 pm | Bikesport NZ
Mount Maunganui’s Cody Cooper (Honda CRF450), in imperious form at the weekend's expanded annual MX Fest at Taupo. Photo by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com Signs are looking ominous for Cody Cooper's rivals ahead of the coming summer season of motocross ... More >>
Harwood Shows Pace Enough To Share MX1 Glory
Monday, 26 October 2020, 6:03 pm | Bikesport NZ
West Auckland’s Hamish Harwood (CML Racing Team KTM 450F), first-equal in the premier MX1 class at the weekend’s annual MX Fest spectacular in Taupo. Photo by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com The alarm bells have well and truly been rung for ... More >>
Stunning Display Of Dominance By Kawasaki Ace
Monday, 26 October 2020, 5:54 pm | Bikesport NZ
Hamilton’s Josiah Natzke (Bridgestone Kawasaki Racing Team), the best-performed rider at the weekend’s annual MX Fest spectacular in Taupo. Photo by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com The Bay of Plenty region was bursting with motorcycling talent over ... More >>
Top Bike Riders To Go On Trial Over Labour Weekend
Wednesday, 14 October 2020, 12:26 pm | Bikesport NZ
OCTOBER 14, 2020: Porirua's Dylan Ball will be looking for a repeat performance when the 2020 New Zealand Trial Championships are staged in the South Island this coming Labour Weekend. The teenager won the premier division for the first time when ... More >>
The 2020 Huka Honda MX Fest At Taupo
Thursday, 1 October 2020, 11:22 am | Bikesport NZ
All roads lead to the Bay of Plenty this coming Labour Weekend as the reshuffled 2020-21 New Zealand motocross season kicks into life with the traditional annual MX Fest in Taupo. The popular Huka Honda-sponsored MX Fest event has again ... More >>
Full Throttle On The Flat Will Be Eye-Watering Stuff
Tuesday, 29 September 2020, 4:53 pm | Bikesport NZ
Waikato's Alarn Young (Kawasaki), likely to be among the leading riders this weekend. Photo by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com If you can picture superbike racing on a grass track, then you’ll have no trouble at all imagining what it may look like ... More >>
Motorcycling Community Sadden By Tragic Loss
Monday, 21 September 2020, 12:54 pm | Bikesport NZ
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020: The New Zealand motorcycling community is mourning the tragic loss at the weekend of one of its champions. Otago's Grason Veitch, a multi-time former New Zealand motocross champion, victim of a motor vehicle accident at the ... More >>
"New Normal" Sees KTM Riders Again To The Fore
Monday, 21 September 2020, 10:08 am | Bikesport NZ
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020: The New Zealand motocross scene burst back into life with a "new normal" COVID-19 atmosphere during a rare double-header event at Mercer at the weekend. Auckland's Cobie Bourke (CML KTM Race Team), a top performer in two ... More >>
Governing Body Calls For Halt To Motorcycling Events
Thursday, 13 August 2020, 11:34 am | Bikesport NZ
The governing body for motorcycle sports in New Zealand has called a halt to all but two events, from this weekend forward, in response to the recent heightening of COVID-19 pandemic controls. Motorcycling New Zealand (MNZ) president Noel May ... More >>
Yearbury Takes His Husky To Top Of The Points Table
Monday, 20 July 2020, 10:04 am | Bikesport NZ
JULY 20, 2020: It has been quite a season for Waikato dirt bike racer Dylan Yearbury. In a campaign disrupted by the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, it would be understandable if his focus was slightly blurred and his motivation at a low ebb, but the 25-year-old ... More >>
Motocross Scene Starting To Heat Up Again
Friday, 26 June 2020, 12:42 pm | Bikesport NZ
JUNE 26, 2020: It will now go from a famine to a feast for the New Zealand motorcycling community after news this week that multiple major national events will be resurrected. Restrictions are slowly easing nationwide, following a difficult 10-week period of ... More >>
Suzuki NZ Again Provides Boost To Popular Series
Monday, 15 June 2020, 3:27 pm | Bikesport NZ
JUNE 15, 2020: New Zealand’s biggest stand-alone road-race series has become a global phenomenon and the remarkably-popular motorcycling competition looks set to go again in 2020. With the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic wreaking havoc across the ... More >>
Enduro Championships Mark Re-start For Bike Racing
Monday, 8 June 2020, 12:29 pm | Bikesport NZ
JUNE 8, 2020: The 2020 New Zealand Enduro Championships kick off in the Wairarapa region this weekend and it's again going to take a special individual to claim the top prize. Because the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic ate into the calendar this year, ... More >>
Kiwi Bike Legend Birch Recalls His Most Special Moment
Tuesday, 12 May 2020, 11:10 am | Bikesport NZ
MAY 12, 2020: When you have an international sporting career as long and illustrious as New Zealand's Chris Birch, you could understand that it would be hard for him to identify just one special moment. But, with plenty of time to contemplate with ... More >>
Virus Lockdown Forces Early End To NZSBK Championship
Thursday, 9 April 2020, 3:49 pm | Bikesport NZ
It had been a case of "hurry up and wait" for the nation's elite motorcycle riders, but now the waiting is over for these athletes, their sponsors and fans. Three of five rounds of the 2020 New Zealand Superbike Championships (NZSBK) had ... More >>
Whitaker Ready To Go Bush After His "Hibernation"
Monday, 6 April 2020, 11:48 am | Bikesport NZ
There's perhaps nothing worse for a motorcycle champion than being kept locked up indoors. You could easily imagine Wainuiomata's Jake Whitaker getting wild, scratchy and hungry, for bike action at least, during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown. But ... More >>
Connolly Wraps Up Title With Two Races To Spare
Monday, 16 March 2020, 1:38 pm | Bikesport NZ
MARCH 16, 2020: The only pressure on Bay of Plenty's Brodie Connolly at the weekend was that which he applied to himself. The LMC Husqvarna Racing Team rider from Tauranga showed up at the fourth and final round of the senior New Zealand Motocross Championships ... More >>
