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 | Welcome to MotorCycle Sport NZ... Who can help with more detail about this bike? All we know is it's a Velocette KTT model as ridden by Freddie Frith in 1950.  James Smith leads Glen Skachill & Sam Love at Manfeild round 4 of the Castrol MNZ Superbike Champs.  Auckland's Scott Birch & his KTM off to a good enduro start. Go to "Trials, trail, enduro" etc. for the full story......  Andrew Stroud aboard a famous Manx Newly crowned NZ Super Cross champ and former MX2 World Motocross and AMA Supercross Lites champion, Ben Townley, will line up for the first 3 rounds of the MX1 FIM Motocross World championship which kicks off in Bulgaria on the 3-4 of April. Go to heading "Road Racing 2010" for more details.
 The Davide ‘Speedy’ Gozzini - Ivan Lazzarini sideways Supermoto show on Boxing Day at Wanganui. Photo by Terry Stephenson. Read the report & more photos go to heading "Cemetery Circuit & 2009 Tri Series ..........    Italians Ivan Lazzarini (Honda CRF450) & David Gozzini (TM450) leading some of the time but not always, NZ's Toby Summers. Expect more of this on Boxing Day at the Cemetery Circuit @ Wanganui - go to heading "Cemetery Circuit & Tri Series" for how round 1 at Manfeild went ....
- Changes to the 2010 Regulations - Sporting & Technical Regulations itemised including the new "Moto2" Class Go to "Stop Press" hover over with the mouse, then select "FIM World Championships 2010". A very interesting read especially if you follow MotoGP races on TV
We are well into our second hundred days and the path has been a little bumpy Motorcycling New Zealand Makes Submission to ACC Go to "Stop Press" for the full story. -------------------------------------------------------------------- MNZ Pilot Coaching Program Underway Motorcycling New Zealand (MNZ) is pleased to announce that a pilot coaching/training program has been established in the Nelson/Marlborough region. Go to "Stop Press" for the full story. Go to "Stop Press" then subheading "Vintage MX & Classic Bikes" for the full story ... Changes at MNZ FIM launches the FIM E-Power International Championship
order to promote Alternative Energies, the FIM is pleased to announce the launch of its new Electric Motorcycles Championship. What happened next? Go to trials, trail, enduro & cross country by hovering over "Stop Press" >>  Bike Rider Magazine Pacific Motorcycle Club Summer Road Race Series >>
Go to heading Road Racing 2009/10 for details New Zealand's The The 31-year-old former Manawatu forestry worker -- known affectionately in bike racing circles as 'The Axeman' -- >>> go to the subheading "Trials, trail, cross country, enduro" for the full story..... New Caledonia Super Motard  Mimi Berthomier Champion & Veteran shows the winning style. All sorts of sports & motorsports are popular in this Pacific Island paradise Mini motorcycles back at Manfeild
Ben Townley back on the bike ........... read the story under "MX/SX" ............... Stolen ... Go to "Stop Press for details  BR>"Full Steam ahead, Skipper" -> "err which way Sir?" Vito Ippolito candidate to a second term as FIM President in 2010. Read more under FIM Championships Vito Ippolito, FIM President Q. What conclusions can you draw after eight months of the 2009 season? A. We were ready to go through 2009 with the world economic crisis in the background. During the last eight months we have been working in a close collaboration with all our promoters, manufacturers, sponsors, riders and all the participants in our sport as a whole. We are well aware of what is going on in each discipline in order to put in place some valid solutions which can ensure the permanence of the championships. We are also trying to establish the guidelines to follow for the next ten years. We still have a lot of work to do before the end of the season but globally participation in terms of spectators and media coverage is very satisfactory.Q. Cross Country racing in USA >> Paul Whibley from Pahiatua wins & reports Race Report: CRA Cable Creek
Rider: Paul Whibley
Team: JG Offroad, GEICO, Monster Energy Kawasaki
Bike: Kawasaki KX450f
Result: 1st
Last chance for some racing before the return to GNCCs brought out some top level competion to a local CRA event at Cable Creek.
Also an extra couple of Kiwis were racing on some GEICO team equipment & did very well in their first race in the States with Adam placing 7th and Karl 8th. 7th : Adam Reeves, current NZ XC Champion
8th : Karl Power who placed 2nd overall in the NZ Enduro Nationals
For the whole story hover your mouse over "Stop Press" then select "Trials, trail, cross country, enduro" .... 31 Aug 2009
Go to "Stop Press" for the report by Jim Tuckerman, President of MNZ. 16 August 2009 Race results – 2009 RoadCraft FIM Junior Motocross World Championship KIWI DOBBYN ON PODIUM IN JUNIOR MOTOCROSS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Warkworth’s Hamish Dobbyn has celebrated the debut of World Championship motocross racing in New Zealand by finishing third in the 125cc class at today’s RoadCraft Junior Motocross World Championship in Taupo. Dobbyn is the first Kiwi ever to finish on the podium and his sensational result combined with 13 year old girl Courtney Duncan’s 6th to take New Zealand to the third place in the ‘Nations Trophy.’ ENTRY LIST CONFIRMED FOR JUNIOR WORLD MOTOCROSS The entry list has been confirmed for the 2009 RoadCraft FIM Junior Motocross World Championship in “ It is the first time the Junior World Motocross has left European shores and is considered a real coup for Taupo and for “We are extremely pleased with the standard of riders competing >> The confirmed dates for the 2010 NZSBK rounds are announced by the President of Motorcycling New Zealand, Jim Tuckerman. They are listed uder the heading "Road Racing 2009/10... " 27 July 2009 PARADE OF NATIONS AT THE JUNIOR MOTOCROSS WORLD CHAMPS IN TAUPO There are less than four weeks until the world’s best junior riders arrive in Taupo for the 2009 RoadCraft FIM Junior Motocross World Championship on August 15-16. “We have got entries from countries as wide-reaching as Ecuador and Tahiti and a strong response from the traditional motocross powerhouses in Europe such as Italy and France,” said Geoff Hall, President of the Taupo Motorcycle Club ... Yoshimura Suzuki takes victory at Suzuka 8 Hours Yamaha Austria Racing Team in fourth place Yoshimura Suzuki takes another great victory at Suzuka. The Japanese team already made history by stopping ten consecutives Honda victories at Suzuka when they won the 2007 edition. The Suzuki Yoshimura of Daisaku Sakai, Kasuki Tokudome and Nobuatsu Aoki took .... For more information & results hover over "Stop Press" the select "FIM World Championships ...." MANAWATU ORION MOTORCYCLE CLUB MORT ANDREWS MEMORIAL MOTOCROSS SAND PRIX SUNDAY 23RD AUGUST 2009 TAIKOREA MOTORCYCLE PARK
The 22-year-old Yamaha ace from just north of Mead’s latest adventure will see him head to race an international “Endurocross” in Las Vegas in a few days' KIWI SQUAD TO TAKE ON THE WORLD CAPTION: Motorcycling Bryan Davidson - Motorcycling NZ Junior MX Commissioner. JULY 10 2009: The final squad to represent The initial Norton Owners Club Golden Anniversary, held during June 2009  Norton sidevalve engined miltary sidecar, some had sidecar wheel drive also, complete with machine gun ready for action Hover over "Stop Press" then select Norton Owners Club 50th Anniversary The FIM creates a new Series for Electric Motorcycles in 2010 Following the success of the TTXGP race held on the Isle of Man on June 12, the FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) has decided to create a FIM Series for electric bikes in 2010. Go to "Stop Press" >> FIM & World Championships for more detail...... 100 Years of Motorcycling In
 The announcement of the result of member voting came almost at the conclusion to two days of workshops and forums at the James Cook Hotel in a storm-lashed Also elected were Marton's "I wish to offer thanks to those who supported me and also to thank "I have been encouraged, sitting in on the various workshops, that everyone is talking positively. Let's all get together now and work for the future." A great deal of business was conducted over the two days with workshops for the various motorcycling codes producing some vibrant and fruitful discussion. MNZ controls, manages and promotes motocross, road-racing, trials, cross-country racing, enduro, speedway, ATV, beach racing, supercross and trail riding activities in New Zealand and has a long and proud history of nurturing and building the foundation for the careers of many Kiwi internationals, some of whom have gone on to become world champions in their respective codes. Credit: Words by
your support is needed at the upcoming Motor Cycling New Zealand AGM (Annual General Meeting – 22 to 24 May, 2009 in Wellington., for nominees to key roles within Motorcycling New Zealand.
Go to "Stop Press" heading for more information.
Worlds BEST JUNIOR RIDERS! The hunt is on to find the world’s best junior riders with entries opening for the 2009 FIM Junior Motocross World Championship which will be held in Taupo on August 15-16, 2009
Go to heading "MX/SX" for the full story ....
As good as it can get Now triple New Zealand Superbike Champion, Australian Robbie Bugden leads Andrew Stroud & Gareth Jones Go to heading Road Racing 2008/9 for the full sory & results Can you help us? We are trying to find out more about the Yamaha liquid cooled GL750 4 cylinder 2-stoke, with fuel injection. It never made it into production. It was displayed at the 1972 Tokyo Motor Show and then in France in 1973, before disappearing. More photos are under "Stop Press" Anything about it or any photos or old magazine articles please contact Terry Stevenson on 0275 458-904 or tappit@paradise.net.nz.
  Paul Whibley takes the Woodville River Race in his stride, winning both races comfortably. What a year for this man who has earned his way to everything he's achieved. Now changed to Kawasaki, he's back in USA riding Cross Country races defending both a first & second places in National Cross Country series, got married, won every event he competed in New Zealand, was Motorcycling NZ's "Off Road Rider of 2008. Go for it Paul, you have got what it takes.
 2008 MX1 + 125cc Class Champion Damien King rode Yamaha's to victory in Demon Energy MX Champs Series Read the full story under the heading "MX/SX" .... Shayne King inducted into New Zealand Motorcycle Hall of Fame Grand Prix motocross sensation Shayne King was inducted into the New Zealand Motorcycle Hall of Fame on Saturday night at the NZ Motorcycle Awards.    Very few will remember the famous British Brooklands banked race track used until WW2, but here's some real history of motorcycle racing. "Archers of Aldershot", a very famous family business based at Aldershot, England raced there, not just the men, but the daughters too! Four generations of Archers were in the top echelon of motorcyclesport. Here's a picture of Miss Thelma Archer at speed during record breaking at Brooklands in 1932 on a New Imperial. Thelma was just 16 years of age at the time! For more of the story, go to "Those were the Days" heading on this site. 2nd Nov. 08 - Roger De Coster visited the Taupo VMX day 1 Nov. then next day at the fanstastic International MX & made friends with everybody. Go to "Stop Press" >> "Vintage MX & Classic Bikes" for picture poses .... BEST OF THE BEST IN TAUPO Taupo is once again making a name for itself as an international motorsports magnet. The eyes of the motorcycling world will again focus on the region as Taupo draws a host of international superstars to its popular Swann International Motocross this coming weekend (November 1-2). The sandy Digger McEwen Motocross Track, in Miro Street, Taupo, will be the venue for the Swann insurance-sponsored event and it is tipped to attract crowds similar to the 10,000-plus that arrived there for racing in 2006. Go to heading "MX/SX" for more information Roger DeCoster is coming to NEW ZEALAND. The greatest Motocross legend of all time is to visit Taupo for the International MX event 1-2 November. Roger DeCoster is synonymous with the sport of motocross. His crowning achievements earned him legendary status with the nickname 'The Man'.    Valentino Rossi - MotoGP World Champion for 2008, his 8th World Championship Title
Top company for Kiwi Cody Cooper at Unadilla USA, where he placed 3rd overall & was the only rider to challenge Stewart in the second moto when it rained incessantly.
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