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A safe and sensible approach proved to be a winning strategy for Kayne Lamont at the weekend’s big annual MX Fest motocross extravaganza in Taupo.The Hamilton-based former Mangakino man certainly enjoyed revisiting his home turf on Sunday, taking his Altherm JCR Yamaha Racing Team YZ450F bike to win the premier MX1 class overall and he also won the series of “knock-out” feature races that wrapped up the two-day spectacular.The event was again sponsored by Taupo bike dealership Huka Honda, but th

MX Fest 2018 started off with a hiss and a roar for Tommy Watts. Day 1 Junior 125cc 14-16 class I wasn’t really happy on the day with my performance but wasn’t really considering how much time I had been off the bike. Arm pump played a huge factor in my results both days purely because I haven’t been racing for a long time.MX FEST Day 1 – Junior 125cc 14-16 classRace 1 I managed to bring home a 2nd behind Brodie Connolly who pulled a pretty good gap on me, arm pump played a pretty big

The two Altherm JCR Yamaha riders, Kayne Lamont and Maximus Purvis are looking forward to kicking their 2018/2019 New Zealand motocross season off this weekend at the 2018 Huka Honda MX Fest.Held near their hometown of Mangakino, on Taupo's pumice and sand Digger McEwen Motorcycle Park circuit, the event will host up to 480 riders over the two days and will attract thousands of spectators.Lamont, who won the premiere MX1 class here last year, will make his race debut on his 2019 Yamaha YZ450 and

Mount Maunganui's Cody Cooper and Rhys Carter are in their final stages of preparation for a massive international event that brings together the world's elite motocross racers to fly the flags of their homelands.Cooper (Honda) and Carter (Yamaha) make up two thirds of the New Zealand team, with Auckland-based former Takaka man Hamish Harwood (KTM), flying the Kiwi flag at the Motocross of Nations, widely referred to as "The Olympic Games of Motocross", in the United States this weekend.The team

In the cruellest of circumstances, Kiwi motocross phenomenon Courtney Duncan will be unable to race the final two rounds of the FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship (WMX), due to the flare-up of an injury in her right foot.The Altherm JCR Yamaha rider has a dominant 21-point advantage over her nearest rival but has been advised today by surgeons, at her Belgium base, against risking permanent damage to her foot if she rides in this weekend’s penultimate round in the Netherlands. Duncan must