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Courtney Duncan captures 4th World Motocross Title

4 September 2023 New Zealand’s Courtney Duncan has captured another FIM World WMX Women’s Motocross Championship, with a round win at the final round in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. This title takes Courtney’s championship tally to four, but it hasn’t come easy. Courtney bounced back from a 7th overall in the 2022 championship suffering from a broken […]

Promising motocross rider Karaitiana Horne joins Pro Circuit Team Green Race Team

MAY 29, 2023: Kawasaki Motorcycle Distributors is proud to announce the support of Karaitiana Horne for the 2023/2024 New Zealand motocross season. Joining the Pro Circuit Team Green Development Race Team, Karaitiana will contest race events aboard her Pro Circuit Team Green KX250.  Alarn Young, team manager says, “We’re excited for Karaitiana to join the […]

FATHER AND SON PAIR DOMINATE AT TT NATIONALS

MAY 18, 2023: Like father, like son – winning national motorcycling titles became a family affair at the 2023 edition of the New Zealand Motocross TT Nationals at Taupiri at the weekend. Throttles were twisted to the stops on the mostly-flat grassland course at Taupiri, north of Hamilton at the weekend and riding skill, bravery, […]

Duncan takes over WMX lead with double victories in Spain

8 May 2023 Duncan takes over WMX lead with double victories in Spain Giving her winner’s speech for the second time over the Spanish MXGP weekend, New Zealand’s Courtney Duncan surmised that she couldn’t have asked for more. The Big Van World MTX Kawasaki rider heads away from the intu Xanadú Arroyomolinos track with two FIM Women’s Motocross World […]

TEAM GREEN WINS INAUGURAL EIGHT-HOUR MARATHON

April 24, 2023:Even if you think you’ve had a tough day at the office and you’re totally spent as you head home after work, you really still have no idea just how gruelling an eight-hour shift can actually be. Sunday’s inaugural Forestland Eight-Hour Cross-country race, held on steep and waterlogged farmland at Oparau, near Kawhia, […]

BAY OF PLENTY RIDER PUTS GREEN BIKE ON THE TOP STEP

April 17, 2023: Bay of Plenty’s Flynn Watts demonstrated perfectly why green means go when he clinched his first national motocross title in Southland at the weekend. The 16-year-old from Pukehina, near Whakatane, took his bright green Kawasaki KX250 to seal up the premier 14-16 years’ 250cc class title at the three-day 2023 New Zealand […]

Duncan takes the overall win in Switzerland

11 April 2023 On the fight-back after the season opener on Sardinian sand, New Zealand’s Courtney Duncan took overall victory at the FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship’s second round in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, over Easter. The MXGP of Switzerland’s last edition was held in 2018 – the year before Duncan achieved her first of her three consecutive […]

CODY COOPER A NATIONAL CHAMPION YET AGAIN AT AGE 39

March 27, 2023: There was simply no stopping Kawasaki ace Cody Cooper as he produced another startling performance in this year’s senior New Zealand Motocross Championships, which wrapped up at Taupo on Sunday. They say age is just a number and that may be true, but this is traditionally a young person’s game and a […]

First Solo Jet Ski Lap of New Zealand Ever Completed

February 28, 2023: The first man to lap mainland Australia and Tasmania, solo on a Jet Ski has completed the Australasian trifecta by circumnavigating New Zealand. Lindsay Warner (64) tackled cyclones and rough weather conditions during the lap making the feat all the more impressive. The adventurer and real-estate agent/auctioneer based in Adelaide took 9 […]