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International Spotlight with Toby Price

October 1, 2018 Filed Under: Enduro, News

Motorcycling Australia (MA) was thrilled to sit down with Off-Road and Enduro rider, Toby Price, who has had a cracking 2018 so far by winning the 2018 Tatts Finke Desert Race for the sixth time! Price spoke to MA about his jam-packed training regime, and has a special message for all his fans. 

Where are you currently competing?

I actually just finished up at the Desafio Inca Rally in Peru and I’ve just returned home for a couple of rad events with my valued sponsors. I’m back overseas soon to take on the Rally of Morocco at the start of October.

What’s the hardest thing about adapting to your new country?

The food is actually the hardest. You need to make sure you don’t eat the wrong thing or drink the wrong water. Language is always hard too because I only speak English!

What do you miss most about home?

I actually don’t get too homesick on the road! I love my job and I’m lucky to be able to travel the world while doing it. If I did miss anything it would be food and friends!

What is your preparation/training regime like?

Wake up, have a protein filled breakfast, train either at the gym, on the bike or out on a track, recover, eat, emails, and then some fun or more training in the afternoon.

What’s been a highlight for you this year?

A highlight was finishing third in the 2018 Dakar Rally. I was only back on the bike for six weeks before the event after breaking my femur at the 2017 Dakar Rally.

What is your single most motivating force?

The feeling of winning! At the end of the day, I’m a racer.

Tell us a bit more about what you hope to achieve and what you have already achieved in 2018?

This year I finished third at the Dakar Rally and won the Finke Desert Race for the sixth time. I’m hoping to next year win the Dakar Rally for the second time!

Do you have a special message for your fans back home?

Thanks everyone for the continued support! It means a lot, especially checking my social media after each stage and seeing your messages!

Favourite thing to do besides motorcycling?

Normally I get out on the mountain bike with the crew during the week, and on the weekends I hang out with mates for BBQ’s, drinks and dinner!

Describe yourself in three words

Aussie, Mullet & Chilled!

International Spotlight with Kim Krebs

October 1, 2018 Filed Under: News, Road Race, Road Racing

Motorcycling Australia (MA) was lucky enough to sit down with Land Speed racer, Kim Krebs, who is currently making a name for herself as the Fastest Australian Woman. Kim spoke to MA about her strangest overseas experience to date and how she trains for each Land Speed event.

Where are you currently competing?

I’ve just returned from the United States of America (USA), where I was competing at the AMA National Land Speed Grand Championships. This is an event that is run through the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA.

What’s the hardest thing about adapting to your new country?

Driving on the other side of the road and finding a somewhere to have a decent meal. (For some reason, vegetables aren’t a very common and so much of their food is flavoured sweet).

What do you miss most about home?

We’re on the Salt Flats at dawn and don’t leave until sunset everyday. Sunrise and sunset sounds almost silent. I miss the familiar dawn chorus from birds like magpies.

What is your preparation/training regime like?

Land Speed Racing is a sport that you can’t practice for. You need to treat every run like it’s your only one. That said, the first run of the event is usually the slowest. To stay fit between events, I ride a bicycle around the Adelaide Hills and during the race meet I try and go for a morning run each day.

What’s been a highlight for you this year?

in March this year, Swiss Performance partnered with Dry Lake Racers Australia to run the inaugural World Speed Trials at Lake Gairdner, SA. I was one of 11 competitors in this FIM sanctioned event, and I managed to set a new world Landspeed record. Being able to set a world record in your own country is very special.

What is your single most motivating force?

I’m motivated and inspired by my race partners, Greg Watters and Jim Higgins. We have an unconditional belief in each other. We don’t doubt what each other does, as we build the bikes, and we know that we can go fast – very fast. In a strange way, that motivates me.

Tell us a bit more about what you hope to achieve and what you have already achieved in 2018?

My fastest record (AMA) is 241mph, and my goal is to set a world or national record over 250mph. In particular, I’d like to set that record on our 750cc bike. The fastest we’ve gone on the 750cc bike is 239mph, so we’re getting close. My achievement this year is to bump up the turbocharged 1600cc class to 213mph.

What’s your strangest overseas experience been so far?

In 2011, I received the equivalent of the American Woman Motorcyclist of the year. That was 12 months before I had the similar recognition in Australia.

Do you have a special message for your fans back home?

Land Speed Racing isn’t about being the fastest ever, it’s about seeing what YOU can build and how fast YOU can make that machine go. For that reason, you connect with like minded people, and that makes us the richest group of people. So I’d like to remind everyone that we’re all capable of great things. It’s just all the better if it involves a bike.

Favourite thing to do besides motorcycling?

I enjoy anything that gets me outdoors and keeps me under that huge sky of ours. By traveling overseas I’ve realised that our country is a very beautiful place, and our skies are a brilliant blue that you just don’t see elsewhere.

Embarrassing fact about you?

I once completed a record qualifying run, just after dawn at Bonneville. When the FIM Official came up to me and asked why I rode the bike without the seat and tail piece, I had to admit that it was early and I was still half asleep, so we forgot to put it on before I launched!

Describe yourself in three words

Fastest woman record-holder

International Spotlight with Kyle Middleton

October 1, 2018 Filed Under: News, Trial

Earlier this month Motorcycling Australia spoke with 2018 Trial des Nations Australian team member, Kyle Middleton, on his life and experiences overseas. Middleton dished the dirt on what his misses most about home “down under” and what’s been his strangest experience overseas so far!

Where are you currently competing?

I’m in Prague in the Czech Republic where I’ll be competing with my Aussie team mates in the Trial des Nations (TdN).

What’s the hardest thing about adapting to your new country?

I’m lucky that I’ve never had to spend long periods overseas, I’ve always come home regularly and these days I’m at home pretty much all of the time. One of the things I’ve always found hard overseas is that I’m the kind of person who always wants to be getting stuff done quickly (I’m impatient) and when you’re in another country that’s often difficult. You don’t know where places are, you don’t know the culture that well so shops for example can be closed at odd times of the day. I’m always wanting to do something during siesta time in Spain.

What do you miss most about home?

When I’m away I always miss my family and friends as well as my two Jack Russell dogs.

What is your preparation/training regime like?

Pretty hectic! I train five days a week, work full time and also go to university. Monday and Tuesday are university work nights, Wednesday through to Friday I go training after work more or less until dark and then on the weekend I usually do a few hours each day as well. It depends a bit on what events are coming up and how my body feels as to whether I do any off bike training except for stretching. At the moment it’s almost 100% on bike. My girlfriend, Em, is always trying to make sure I have a more varied training regime.

What’s been a highlight for you this year?

The Scottish Six Days Trial was both a highlight and a low light for me this year, it was a great experience and there were a few moments there mid way through the week that I’ll never forget like how much fun I was having and the sights that I was seeing, and then there were other moments when I wished I was anywhere but there. I really learnt a lot about myself in Scotland but mainly I got taught some serious lessons on how no level of preparation can prepare you for the severity of an event like The Scottish Six Days Trial. One of the most important lessons I learnt was that experience is key.

What is your single most motivating force?

Always improving and being the best are absolutely my driving forces, if I’m not doing either of those I really struggle to enjoy myself. I don’t like that I’m that way but it’s true.

Tell us a bit more about what you hope to achieve and what you have already achieved in 2018?

I’ve won the Australian X-Trial Championships & finished the Scottish Six Day Trial with a first class award. The season is really only just warming up so in the next few weeks I’ll have the New South Wales Titles & Australian Titles as well as the TdN where we will be defending our title which we won for the first time ever last year. Hopefully I can repeat last years success at all of these events.

What’s your strangest overseas experience been so far?

One time I was competing in the United States of America (USA) and my minder lost his bike. He came running to the next section all puffed and I was pretty annoyed he had taken so long to get there so I harshly asked him what took so long. He said he couldn’t find his bike and I was like “dude, how do you just lose your bike, where did you park it?”. It turns out that the bike we hired was for sale and a potential buyer thought they could take it for a test ride mid World Championship round. Lets just say that I owed Simon an apology.

Do you have a special message for your fans back home?

Just a huge thanks to all those supporters who have helped the Australian TdN team to get where it is. There’s no way we could have achieved what we have in the last few years without the awesome support from our community and Trials fans.

Favourite thing to do besides motorcycling?

There’s probably not a single thing but I do enjoy gardening, tending to my bees and playing Touch Rugby League with my girlfriend.

Embarrassing fact about you?

I’m a bit of a nerd, I like sci-fi, reading and gardening. I like quite a lot of nerdy things that you wouldn’t expect a motorcyclist to be in to…

Describe yourself in three words

Hairy, Obsessive, tired.

 

TEAM WA Trek to Tassie for KTM AJMX

September 30, 2018 Filed Under: Juniors, Motocross, News

This year’s 2018 KTM AJMX will take place at the Coastal Motocross Club in Penguin, Tasmania during September 29th – October 6th. The KTM AJMX is the pinnacle of junior motocross racing in Australia and during the thrilling action packed week of racing the riders and their support crews will be tested beyond their limits to regain, gain or keep hold of the coveted title of “Australian Champion”.

Coastal Motocross Club President Stuart Weller said the club is looking forward to hosting the AJMX after successfully contributing to past events in Tasmania such as the 2015 Australian Four Day Enduro (A4DE).

Weller is excited to host the event; “The KTM AJMX will provide an excellent opportunity for juniors to compete against the best talent within Australia and visiting international riders, at our venue.

“It’s a huge honour for our club; it’s the first time since 2004 we last had a Junior National Championship. We had applied to host the AJMX championship for the last two years and we were successful on our second attempt, which is a great get for our club and the state of Tasmania.

“We have a great committee formed and we are tracking really well leading up to September 29, and with the weather we have our fingers and toes crossed we get six days of great Tasmanian spring weather,” finished Weller.

Motorcycling WA have selected a very strong team, backed by some great results from our riders at the WJMX in Horsham. With the best junior MotoX riders from around the country vying for the coveted Australian Championship, Motorcycling WA would like to congratulate all riders selected to represent WA at the AJMX. We would like to wish the team all the best and good luck in all of their races and the Challenge Cup.

WA Team

Seth Shackleton 65cc

Jake Rumens        65cc

Brock Flynn          85cc (Injured)

Kayden Minear   85cc

Corben Weinert 125cc

Rhys Burnett        250cc

This is what our WA Team of Sandgropers and proud parents had to say leading up to the KTM AJMX:

Team Manager Luke Davis-“It’s pretty cool to be named team manager again and have a good rep with the kids that have all been selected! Feeling really good about the selections and moving forward the forecast looks like it’s going to be nice so far to us but it is Tassie and anything can happen here!”

“Unfortunate we had young Brock Flynn go down and out through the week training for supercross but we have some other strong contenders we can fill his spot with to remain a strong team to take the cup!”

“Thanks to Motorcycling WA have got all our hoodies organised so the kids will be looking sharp and keeping warm. “ #14

Rhys Burnett-125cc-250cc 15 yrs

I am so happy to be a part of the WA state team coming into the Aussie titles. The track is looking good and I can’t wait to see when I can bring to the table for WA.

Sponsors: 14MxD, The Local Tattoo studio, Sixty7 , Forma Boots, Maxima Oils, Willmax Graphics, Pro pleat, 6D, Michelin, Spy, Mandurah City Yamaha, LKI, Pipe King Pipe Repairs, PPM Global, FTs moto, Neken, Eight11 performance.

Seth Shackleton:

It’s great to be selected for the State team again this year for the AJMX. I’m looking forward to racing Australia’s best again, not sure what the Tassie tracks like yet but I will have plenty of time to get used to it in practice.

Huge thanks to Mandurah City KTM, Troy Lee Designs Aus, Choice Suspension, BO motor oil, MX Ink

 Jake Rumens:

When Troy Rumen’s asked Jake how he felt about being in the WA team;  Jake first up he felt a bit shocked as there is some very good riders going over from WA and he was pretty stoked to be going over with all his MX mates. Jake is super excited to get over there, try a new track and ride against all the fast riders from Australia, with Australia having a lot of fast kids finishing inside top ten in the world he wants to see how he goes against them. Massive thanks to Bunbury KTM, FOX, Motorex, Pete Van Leeuwin from VLP and Rumens & Co Auctioneers.

 Kayden Minear:

Kayden’s feeling good & looking to finish the season off on a high note. It’s been a great season he’s achieved some outstanding goals winning the 2 WA state championships & coming 7th at the FIM World Titles. The AJMX is the last box to tick on the 2018 list. Thank you to all of Kayden’s sponsors who have stuck by him & made this all possible. AussieMotoEngineering, ETS Race Fuel, Motorex, FlyRacing, Shoei,Willmax Graphics, MandurahCityKTM, KTMAustralia, Jay from All technique coaching & All the Minear Family.

Corben Weinert:

We are feeling excited and proud for Corben, seeing it’s his last year in the AJMX. We have been to every AJMX event since he was 6 years old, many years of fun and meeting some lovely people involved.

Corben: I am very excited to be riding for my state at my last ever junior national title a specially coming from the southern tip of WA where there has been a lot of issues with organising our own club and track. I’m hoping to come away with a top 3 in both classes, can’t wait to see how I end up!

Moto Outlet Backing Team Australia at the 2018 MXoN

September 25, 2018 Filed Under: Motocross, News

For this year’s 2018 FIM Motocross of Nations (MXoN), Team Australia will have special backing from Moto Outlet. As a full-service online motorcycle gear and accessories retailer, Moto Outlet are right behind Team Australia and are backing them to succeed at Redbud, America on October 6-7, 2018. 

Co-Owner of Moto Outlet, Chris Urquhart described why they got involved with Team Australia; “Both Shane Booth and myself have come from a long motocross racing background and have been involved in the sport for over 30 years. We are very passionate about the sport and not enough people step up these days and get involved to back the team. If we can have some involvement and help the Australian team rise to the top then it makes us very happy and it all worth it.

“For us to contribute to getting the team over there and help fund equipment and budget is what we want to help out with. We also have a long-term relationship with Team Manager, Michael Byrne. It’s all about helping guys go racing, which we love.

“We always have a crew together to watch the MXoN live timing, as we are huge fans! The team this year is really solid and hopefully they can get a great result.

“When you look at the likes of Mitch Evans who is super talented and years ahead of his time, he will be hard to put out of the top five. Kirk Gibbs is also looking strong and always gets results. Last year he performed magnificently. Hunter Lawrence, I would go as far to say he is one of the most talented dirt bike riders I’ve ever seen and I’ve followed his quest in the world championship for a while now. If the stars align then a podium may be possible!

Moto Outlet is a retail and online store that Co-Founders Chris Urqhart and Shane Booth have built together. They started with Moto Development, a rider training program and last December they have built the store to get it up and running. They are committed to rider development and building a one stop shop for Motocross, Adventure and Road gear and accessories.

Head to https://www.motooutlet.com.au/ to check out the range. Make sure to also follow Moto Outlet on their Facebook page @motooutletau

To keep up-to-date with all the news from the 2018 Motocross of Nations, stay tuned to the Motorcycling Australia website, Like MA on Facebook and follow MA on Instagram.

Team Australia Fights Hard at TdN

September 24, 2018 Filed Under: News, Trial

It was a tough weekend for Team Australia at the Trial des Nations in the Czech Republic. The Australian Men’s Team finishing in 6th place for the International Trophy and the Women’s Team finishing in 8th place. The competition was fierce and conditions were tough throughout the weekend. Despite this, the Aussies showed plenty of grit and determination. 
 
Spain stormed to a fantastic fifteenth consecutive FIM Trial des Nations victory at a wet, wild and spectacular Sokolov venue in the Czech Republic with their three-man team of Toni Bou – Repsol Honda and Gas Gas team-mates Jeroni Fajardo and Jaime Busto reigning supreme in the Men’s World Championship category.
 
It was a much closer-fought affair in the Women’s TDN class where, competing alongside the men for the first time in the competition’s rich and illustrious history, Great Britain’s Emma Bristow – Sherco, Donna Fox – Montesa and Jess Brown – Scorpa regained the title they lost last year to Spain.
 
With the best two scores through each section counting towards a country’s result, riders from twenty-three nations faced a mixture of man-made hazards featuring huge boulders and more natural terrain in nearby woods where grip was at a minimum. Day-long torrential rain and plunging temperatures added to the drama and forced organisers to modify the sections as the event became a war of attrition.
 
The Australians noted that the rain and steep hills were far from ideal for them. The effort they put in was unrelenting and showed true Aussie spirit, but the results were not what they were after.
 
The TDN brought a close to the 2018 TrialGP season, and marked the second and yet another successful season with Sport7 at the helm. For a full list of results head to http://trialgp.com/index.php/results/results-standings
 
Motorcycling Australia would like to thank Team Australia Competitors Kyle Middleton, Connor Hogan, Chris Bayles, Kristie McKinnon, Michelle Coleman and Jenna Lupo for their efforts representing Australia on the world stage. MA would also like to thank Team Manager Phil Whittle and minders, Daniel Felton, Jacob Whittle, Hayden Ahrens and Sam Hull.
 
To keep up-to-date with all the happening from the 2018 Trial des Nations, stay tuned to the Motorcycling Australia Website or the Australian Trials Community Facebook page.


 

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