The 2019 Cross-Country Rallies World Champion, 2022 World Rally-Raid Champion and two-time Dakar winner Sam Sunderland retires from racing at a professional level. The 35-year-old first started riding motocross until a big accident at 16 forced some time away from racing until a holiday in Dubai inspired the switch to rally raids. This led to […]
Manuel Lettenbichler Wins The 2023 Red Bull Erzbergrodeo
It’s back-to-back wins as Manuel Lettenbichler wins the 2023 Red Bull Erzbergrodeo, the tough Austrian hard enduro event, and second round of the FIM world championship. The Erzberg Rodeo began in 1995, and it’s the largest event of its kind in Europe, with four days of racing, and previous winners including Christian Pfeiffer, Cyril Despres, […]
South Africa Win The 2022 BMW International Motorrad GS Trophy
It’s a double victory as South Africa win the 2022 BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy, in both the Male and Female competitions. The seven days of enduro riding and off-road challenges covered 1230km and included 15 special tests. At the start, it was the UK team who led the male standings, with Germany heading the […]
2022 BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy Begins
The UK heads the list of teams competing as the 2022 BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy begins in Albania. They head the male competition from Thailand and South Africa, while the top three female teams are Germany, South Africa and Mexico. With a course made of 65km of Tarmac and 135km off-road, the competition began […]
BMW Enduro Park Celebrates 25 Years
1993 was quite a while ago. Bill Clinton became the new U.S President. Czechoslovakia was replaced by the Czech Republic and Slovakia. And the European single market was created as the European Union was founded. In motorcycling, 1993 saw the launch of the BMW R1100GS, along with the Ducati Monster, Triumph Tiger 900 and Yamaha […]
Venhill Featherlight Throttle Cables for KTM MX and Enduro Bikes
If you’re riding off-road, you want to have a lot of faith in your throttle control. Especially when you’re as bad on the dirt as I am. So the new Venhill Featherlight Throttle cables for KTM MX and Enduro bikes might not make a noticeable difference to my lap times. But I’ll take anything that […]
BMW selects all-female GS Trophy Team
BMW has selected the members of the all-female GS Trophy team. Stephanie Bouisson from France, Amy Harburg from Australia and Morag Campbell from South Africa will go on to compete in the 2016 International GS Trophy in Southeast Asia. A worldwide search led to 119 applications, which were whittled down to 10 hopefuls. Those riders […]