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Extreme Racers Go Bush This Weekend
Monday, 11 November 2013, 1:28 pm | Bikesport NZ
It’s time for riders to make their mark in the KTM Extreme Enduro Series as round two heads into the trees of the Riverhead Forest this coming weekend. More >>
The Green Machines Are Just Warming Up
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 3:13 pm | Bikesport NZ
The podium is beckoning to Kawasaki pair Nick Saunders and Scott Canham this season. After the dynamic green duo’s sensational performance at the Waikato Motocross Championships near Te Kuiti at the weekend, it’s probably fair to say they are ... More >>
Devereux Has a Cunning Plan
Wednesday, 6 November 2013, 11:48 am | Bikesport NZ
Seth Devereux has a cunning plan to boost him towards winning yet another national motorcycling road-race title and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it involves him taking a few risks. More >>
Yamaha Pair Too Fast For Their Own Good
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 11:58 am | Bikesport NZ
NOVEMBER 5, 2013: Titirangi’s Callan May and Mokau’s Adrian Smith are probably too hard and fast for their own good, wearing out three sets of brake pads between them in the big annual Acerbis Four-Hour cross-country marathon near Taupo on Saturday. More >>
Impressive Performances at Mini Nationals
Monday, 4 November 2013, 5:23 pm | Bikesport NZ
The future of New Zealand motocross is in good hands. That’s likely to be the verdict at the conclusion of another successful KTM-sponsored New Zealand Mini Motocross Championships near Auckland at the weekend. More >>
Legends Join Forces
Monday, 4 November 2013, 11:23 am | Bikesport NZ
NOVEMBER 4, 2013: Two former world champions have joined forces this week to ensure that current national MX1 champion Cody Cooper hangs onto his No.1 number board. More >>
Vermeer On the Hunt For No.1 Spot
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 4:21 pm | Bikesport NZ
Wairarapa’s Reuben Vermeer knows a thing or two about racing off-road-motorcycles and he’ll be out to prove that again this weekend. The 30-year-old Masterton pest control officer and bee keeper has been single-handedly taking his Sargent Yamaha ... More >>
Whibley Wraps Up Season On the Podium
Wednesday, 30 October 2013, 3:37 pm | Bikesport NZ
OCTOBER 30, 2013: Pahiatua’s Paul Whibley ended his international season on the podium at the weekend and now looks forward to a break back in New Zealand before returning to the United States to do it all over again in 2014. More >>
Third Time Lucky For Sarah
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 2:24 pm | Bikesport NZ
It's third time lucky for Taihape's Sarah Elwin, although perhaps luck had less to do with her big win than hard work and natural talent. The 18-year-old Yamaha ace has raced the women's class at Taupo's big Labour Weekend Motocross Extravaganza ... More >>
Shake-down Becomes a Shake-up
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 1:20 pm | Bikesport NZ
If any message came out of the big annual Labour Weekend Motocross Extravaganza at Taupo it is that the Altherm JCR Yamaha Racing Team means business this season. More >>
Whibley Building Winning Momentum
Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 4:32 pm | Bikesport NZ
Pahiatua’s Paul Whibley is wasting no time in getting back up to speed with his racing. More >>
Lewis Best Among the Rising Stars
Monday, 21 October 2013, 11:26 am | Bikesport NZ
Lewis Best Among the Rising Stars OCTOBER 21, 2013: New Zealand has another motorcycling world championship hero in the making. Rangiora’s Jake Lewis finally realised the dream after wrapping up the European Junior Cup crown with a thrilling ride at the ... More >>
Whibley’s Back with a Vengeance
Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 3:38 pm | Bikesport NZ
The 34-year-old former Manawatu forestry worker, affectionately dubbed “The Axeman” on the motorcycling scene, won two major cross-country titles in the US last season, clinching the Grand National Cross-country Championships (GNCC) and the Off-Road ... More >>
Flat Tyre Robs Yamaha Duo
Friday, 11 October 2013, 2:18 pm | Bikesport NZ
OCTOBER 11, 2013: A flat tyre is all that stood between Yamaha pair Callan May and Adrian Smith and a remarkable victory at the weekend's big annual Six-Hour Dirt Bike Challenge near Tokoroa. More >>
Birch Too Slick For Nut Buster Rivals
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:56 pm | Bikesport NZ
The 32-year-old Kiwi international was a convincing winner of the opening round of the KTM Extreme Enduro Series -- the Nut Buster Enduro -- in Canterbury on Saturday, setting the tone for what could be another steak of wins for the KTM rider. More >>
Keep Calm and Keep On Racing
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 12:58 pm | Bikesport NZ
Speed, stamina, endurance, riding skill and just a little bit of luck ... it all comes together in the Pacific Motorcycle Club’s upcoming double-header one-hour and three-hour motorcycle marathons in less than two weeks’ time. More >>
Birch Makes it Six from Six
Monday, 23 September 2013, 2:18 pm | Bikesport NZ
Six wins from six starts, Chris Birch’s homecoming couldn’t have gone much better. Now permanently back in the country after a two-year stint of racing and living in South Africa, Auckland’s Birch wasted no time in reasserting his authority on the ... More >>
Fresh Course Awaits Six-hour Competitors
Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:46 am | Bikesport NZ
There will be no excuse for getting stuck in traffic at the upcoming Suzuki Six-Hour Dirt Bike Challenge, even if the event is again expected to attract a monster field of racers. More >>
Added International Flavour to NZ Racing
Monday, 16 September 2013, 1:27 pm | Bikesport NZ
New Zealand’s enduro racing scene will have a little added international flavour over the next month or so. Major domestic events such as the national enduro championships and the popular KTM Extreme Enduro Series are usually bulging at the seams with top ... More >>
Stroke of Good Fortune For Columb
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 3:48 pm | Bikesport NZ
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013: Queenstown’s Scotty Columb has nothing left to prove in a sparkling career that culminated this season with him winning the New Zealand MX2 (250cc) motocross crown. More >>
