FMF KTM Factory Racing rider Dante Oliveira has opened the 2024 AMA National Grand Prix Championship (NGPC) with a Pro Class victory at Round 1 in Delano California . Oliveira was locked in a race lengthy battle with Beta mounted Dare Demartile for the highest spot. Justin Hoeft, Cole Martinez, Mateo Oliveira, Ryan Surratt and others weren’t far behind all the 90 minute predominant occasion. You can see all the race action here!
Defending champ Dante Oliveira got here out swinging profitable a tough fought spherical one.
Beta mounted Dare Demartile in on fireplace proper now! He lead most the race and seemed very snug on the bike. He completed within the runner up spot however undoubtedly has the velocity to win.
Justin Hoeft put his Purvines Yamaha on the rostrum in third.
SLR Honda’s Cole Martinez was within the combine for the win and finally completed simply off the rostrum in 4th.
Mateo Oliveira rounded out the highest 5 aboard his manufacturing facility Red Bull KTM.
Ryan Surratt with out an official journey this yr borrowed an engine SLR simply to race the occasion and completed sixth.
Tyler Lynn is new to the SLR Honda workforce and completed a robust seventh on the opener.
Trevor Stewart has a brand new search for 2024 and completed eighth at spherical 1.
Vet racing famous person Giacomo Redondi combined it up within the premier class ending a strong ninth aboard his Gas Gas .
New to the open professional class Purvines Yamaha Jack Simpson rounded out the highest 10.
Joan Pedrero is at it again. Or still. The Spanish enduro rider has seemingly by no means met a rally raid he did not wish to compete in. Together in partnership with Harley-Davidson, he and his Pan America 1250 have been kicking up sand and rocks at occasions up and down the 2022 and 2023 calendars alike.
Today is December 26, 2023. In simply 4 days, Pedrero and Harley-Davidson will tackle the 2023 Africa Eco Race within the Maxi-Trail class with the Pan America 1250. This is the primary time that Harley has competed within the Africa Eco Race, an occasion that began again in 2009 after the 2008 Dakar Rally was cancelled.
The 2023 Africa Eco Race will begin in Monaco, then make its approach by means of Morocco, Mauritania, and Senegal. The occasion kicks off on December 30, 2023, and concludes with a podium ceremony at Lac Rose in Dakar on January 14, 2024. When it is throughout, the rivals may have run 12 levels and had a single relaxation day alongside the best way.
Throughout 2022 and 2023, he is been extraordinarily aggressive on the bike, frequently scoring top-10 finishes and even successful the Baja Aragón España’s Maxi Trail class outright. Pedrero, whose Dakar bona fides stretch into the double digits, has clearly solely been getting higher as he is spent extra time with the Pan America. Both rider and bike have grown within the functionality of what they will obtain collectively, and the 2023 Africa Eco Race needs to be no exception.
“Adventure and efficiency are the guts of our model, and we are able to consider no higher method to showcase the flexibility of the Pan America than getting into within the Africa Eco Race. We are excited to be taking up this subsequent problem with Joan Pedrero after the good success now we have had all through 2023,” Harley-Davidson regional VP for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Kolja Rebstock mentioned in a press release.
For a small style of what you possibly can anticipate, here is a brief video that Harley put along with Joan Pedrero after efficiently finishing the 2022 1000 Dunas Raid in Spain on a inventory Pan America 1250. The solely factor they modified, mentioned Pedrero, was switching the tires out to a set of Michelin Anakee Wilds and taking part in with the tire stress. The skilled rally raid skilled additionally referred to this specific occasion as “about half a Dakar,” to provide you a way of what it was like.
Munich. The BMW Motorrad Motorsport manufacturing facility rider household is increasing additional with the addition of Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli and Briton Bradley Smith. Both have been fixtures in worldwide racing for a few years, taking part in varied world championships with high-displacement racing bikes from totally different producers. Now, as riders of the newly shaped take a look at group, they may carry their intensive experience to the event and testing of the BMW M 1000 RR.
41-year outdated Guintoli has complete expertise in varied areas of motorbike racing. He has been a two-time world champion, profitable the FIM Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) in 2014 and the FIM Endurance World Championship (FIM EWC) in 2021. He additionally spent a number of years in MotoGP. In addition to his work within the BMW Motorrad Motorsport take a look at group, Guintoli is ready to take part within the FIM EWC with the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team. The detailed rider lineup for the group can be introduced shortly.
33-year outdated Smith is primarily recognized for his time in MotoGP. The Briton started his prolonged worldwide profession within the 125cc class of the world championship. After two years within the Moto2 class, Smith moved as much as MotoGP in 2013, the place he remained lively till 2020. Additionally, Smith received the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race in 2015. Now, he joins the BMW Motorrad Motorsport household as a take a look at rider.
“Welcome aboard, Sylvain and Bradley,” says Christian Gonschor, Technical Director BMW Motorrad Motorsport. “It’s implausible that their wealth of expertise strengthens our mission. Sylvain brings intensive information from a few years within the Superbike and Endurance World Championships, the place he additionally secured the titles, in addition to from MotoGP. Bradley enhances this information completely together with his intensive expertise as a race and take a look at rider in MotoGP. They are the right riders for our new take a look at group, which focuses solely on testing work on the monitor, impartial of race commitments.”
BMW Motorrad Motorsport Director Marc Bongers provides: “I am proud that, under Chris’s leadership, we have assembled such a strong lineup to support our factory commitments in WorldSBK and FIM EWC with the test team in the background. It is also a clear indication of BMW Motorrad’s strong commitment to motorsport. The significant input provided by the test team has already shown promise in recent months, and we are confident that this structure will contribute to success.”
Guintoli says: “I am very happy to join the BMW Motorrad Motorsport WorldSBK factory project as a test rider, the project is very exciting and I am looking forward to bring my experience into it. I can’t wait to get started and enjoy the BMW M 1000 RR.”
Smith says: “To be asked by BMW Motorrad to join the test team is a great privilege. I will work my hardest to deliver what our four WorldSBK factory riders need to battle with the best in the championship.”
Do you could have a rider in your vacation gift-giving record? Even in case you’re simply purchasing for your self, you may need to try the Backcountry Discovery Routes Holiday Auction for 2023. Now in its eighth 12 months, there are just a few cool issues concerning the BDR public sale that set it aside.
For these unfamiliar, Backcountry Discovery Routes is a 501c(3) non-profit group devoted to mapping out, sharing, and educating riders about dual-sport and journey motorbike journey throughout the US. It offers free GPS tracks, interactive maps, and loads of sources that can assist you and your pals plan your subsequent journey. Along the way in which, as a part of its instructional mission, it additionally places collectively some pretty fantastic adventure films showcasing its routes.
The BDR annual Holiday Auction helps to assist its actions with fundraising on what each journey rider craves most of all: new experiences. Some gear, guide, and different tangible merchandise packages are additionally out there, however the experiences and coaching are what actually set this public sale aside.
Moto Travel Experiences
Both US-based and worldwide motorbike journey choices are on provide within the 2023 public sale catalog. More importantly, there’s one thing right here for a variety of budgets. From an Edelweiss Eight-Day Unpaved Balkans Tour (present bid: $3,150) to the Allegheny Jamboree Powersports Rally (present bid: $40), there are really a spread of experiences to discover.
Off-Road Training Opportunities
Do you’re feeling like you can use some coaching to achieve extra confidence and expertise within the saddle? That’s OK, so do most of us. The BDR 2023 Holiday Auction may also help you right here as properly, with all the things from an Appalachian ADV One Day Riding Clinic (present bid: $50) to a two-day non-public ADV training session with Jocelin Snow (present bid: $1,300).
Some excursions and/or trainings embrace issues like bikes, lodging, and meals, whereas some don’t. Be certain to learn all the small print earlier than putting a bid in case you assume that considered one of these choices sounds good. That approach, you will know precisely what to anticipate.
…and extra!
Beyond all of the experiences and coaching alternatives on provide, the 2023 BDR Holiday Auction additionally has sections for bike leases, gear, motorbike equipment (together with that all-important safety in your adventures), lodging, baggage, and extra.
Best of all, the proceeds from this public sale go to assist the BDR mission and neighborhood. By taking part, you will not solely be scoring one thing very nice for whoever you give it to, however you will even be supporting BDR’s future. If you are an adventure-loving rider, it is a wonderful for a number of causes.
The on-line 2023 BDR Holiday Auction runs till 12 p.m. PT on December 20, 2023. We’re posting this on December 6, 2023. So, you continue to have a few weeks to take a look at the listings and place your bids in case you’re .
For these simply catching up with the story, earlier than that try, he and his buddies did some key prep work to get the ‘Busa prepared for off-road driving. While their work included knobby tires, a skid plate, and a crash cage, it didn’t embrace addressing floor clearance points. So, aside from any incremental shifts which will have occurred due to the tire change, the bottom clearance might be at or very near inventory.
That added an additional ingredient of issue, however in the long run, what occurred within the final video is that the ‘Busa received stranded in a single day. One fall broke off the left handlebar, however the greater situation is that the bike did not need to even begin after that exact onerous touchdown. So, Spears and his buddies made the choice to go away it in a single day, then come again the subsequent day with instruments and a plan so they might try to rescue it.
This rescue video is from the subsequent day, when Spears found that every one the ‘Busa wanted to run was apparently just a bit nap. (Me too, ‘Busa, me too.) That nonetheless did not clear up the issue of the damaged left handlebar, however you realize what did? Bringing a buddy alongside who actually strapped the sucker again into place. Is it supremely sketchy? Probably, nevertheless it’s nonetheless often higher to have two handlebars than only one, so Spears determined to see if he may get it up Hell’s Gate anyway. Yes, even with a damaged, barely-holding-on handlebar state of affairs.
A crowd gathered to observe the actions, however one cool factor about that’s that there have been loads of folks round to assist when the bike ended up on its facet. It was a multi-stage effort, however in the long run, the chonky Hayabusa that might made its means up and out. More amazingly, it did so below its personal energy.
The Triumphant Return of Piggy, The Honda Gold Wing
If you had been on the lookout for the proper vacation current, it simply could be this video, as a result of the Gold Wing is again. In the large crash that stored it sidelined for the previous month, it misplaced a bunch of its entrance bodywork. But, as Spears factors out, that is simply weight discount.
Although it is heavier than the Hayabusa, how the ‘Wing carries its weight issues. As you will see within the again half of this video, Spears takes the ‘Wing on some tracks by way of Moab, the place he has to determine some totally different strains to take because of the width of the ‘Wing. It’s significantly wider than a thin dust bike, so there are some strains already marked for a lot narrower bikes that simply will not work for a Gold Wing.
Colby, the 85-year-old Moab dust bike professional, is again once more to prepared the ground, and also you like to see it. Getting the ‘Wing by way of could be a little bit of a special problem, however half the enjoyable (not less than) is doing issues that most individuals suppose cannot be completed, proper?
This iconic photo of Danny Chandler was posted on IG by Rider Files. Photo Mark Kariya
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Danny Chandler has abandoned his goggles after a crash, but he fights on at the 1982 500cc USGP at Carlsbad. It was a good thing too, because “Magoo” absolutely dominated the first moto, winning by a country mile, and then came back to crash twice in the second moto when this shot was taken, yet he finished high enough in fifth to win the overall, after total time for each moto was tallied. The domination of his first moto, but perhaps even more his gritty performance to never give up in the second moto earned him maybe his greatest victory of his career.
TADDY BLAZUSIAK LEAVES GASGAS- SIGNS WITH STARK?
The SuperEnduro world got a surprise when Taddy Blazusiak parted ways with GASGAS. Following an incredible career at KTM (Erzberg Rodeo 5 times; FIM Indoor Enduro World Cup 6 times; and the AMA EnduroCross Championship 5 times), the Polish pilot moved to the factory Farioli team tent to GASGAS in 2020 and has played a major role in getting that team organized and competitive.
Where’s Taddy going? The buzz is that Taddy left GASGAS and signed with Stark Future to ride the Varg electric off-road motorcycle in the 2024 SuperEnduro World Championship and work as a development rider.
The Stark VARG makes huge power (up to 80 hp!) which would be ludicrous on a tight technical endurcross circuit, but the power band can be adjusted, as well as engine braking, flywheel effect and traction control.
The SuperEnduro season looks strong with Mani Lettenbichler committed to the series.
TADDY BLAZUSIAK VIDS- THEN AND NOW
The 1981 Husqvarna models were stunning.
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Are you the type of rider who’s thought to yourself that the Yamaha Ténéré 700 is quite appealing, except it’s a little taller than you’d like? If you’re a shorter rider, then that could be you. More specifically, if you’re a shorter rider in Europe, then Yamaha Motor Europe was clearly thinking about you when it introduced the 2024 Yamaha Ténéré 700 Explore.
It’s a more touring-oriented version of the T7—and it’s one that also offers reduced suspension travel and a lower seat height to improve accessibility for more road-oriented riders. The combination of a 21-inch front and an 18-inch rear wheels remain, as does the skid plate for your off-road explorations.
Engine
Like other members of the T7 lineup, the 2024 Yamaha Ténéré 700 is powered by Yamaha’s liquid-cooled, dual overhead cam, 689cc parallel twin CP2 engine. It makes a claimed 54 kilowatts (about 72.4 horsepower) at 9,000 rpm and 68 newton-meters (about 50 pound-feet) of torque at 6,500 rpm. Bore and stroke are 80.0mm by 68.6mm, and compression ratio is 11.5 to one. This engine is mated to a six-speed gearbox fitted with a quickshifter from the factory and uses a chain final drive.
Chassis
The frame on the 2024 Yamaha Ténéré 700 Explore is a steel tube double cradle unit. Suspension-wise, you’ll find a revised 43mm KYB front fork setup which offers 190mm (7.4 inches) of wheel travel—a full 20mm (almost 0.8 inches) less than what’s found on the standard T7.
In the rear, you’ll find a KYB shock absorber with an increased spring rate and a remote adjuster. It offers 180mm (just over 7 inches) of travel, which is 20mm (almost 0.8 inches) less than the regular T7. This shock absorber, Yamaha says, offers strong comfort and control characteristics even when it’s laden down with gear on a big tour.
The combined suspension adjustments also enable an 860mm (about 33.85-inch) seat height, which is 15mm (almost 0.6 inches) lower than the standard 875mm (34.4 inch) seat height of the standard T7.
Brakes consist of a dual two-piston 282mm disc setup in front and a single 245mm disc setup in the rear.
Additional Features
The 2024 Yamaha Ténéré 700 Explore features a higher, wider windscreen from the factory, which Yamaha says increases surface area by a full 50 percent over the screen found on the standard T7 for better touring protection. You’ll also find a quickshifter fitted from the factory on the Explore.
A 5-inch full color TFT display comes standard on the Explore, as do mounting brackets for your choice of side cases. Please note that side cases themselves do not come standard on the Explore, but you can add soft panniers or hard aluminum cases as available accessories from Yamaha if you like.
Full LED lighting, a USB socket, and a 16-liter fuel tank also come standard on the 2024 T7 Explore.
Dimensions
Wheelbase is 1,590mm (about 62.6 inches). Length is 2,350mm (about 92.5 inches), width is 905mm (about 35.6 inches), and height is 1,500mm (about 59 inches). Minimum ground clearance is 225mm (about 8.85 inches). Yamaha lists curb weight of the T7 Explore as 211 kilograms, or just over 465 pounds.
Pricing and Availability
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Yamaha has only announced the 2024 Yamaha Ténéré 700 Explore for sale in European markets, where several other T7 variants have already been released. Many of those have not been released outside of Europe, and it’s not clear whether they ever will be.
Pricing and exact timing of availability has not yet been given. If you live in Europe or the UK and are interested in getting your hands on a T7 Explore, your best bet is to reach out to your local Yamaha dealer for answers to your questions.
If you live in a non-European market and are interested in the T7 Explore, we’ll be sure to keep you updated with information if this model is released elsewhere.
SHOEI has developed a way to ensure the best fit for every rider. They have created a customization tool specifically for the motocross community who own a Shoei helmet. The custom fitment process can take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on the rider. We were amazed by the difference between an out-of-the-box helmet and our custom fit one! We highly recommend trying this out and locating a dealer that offers the Personal Fitting System (PFS) service. Visit the Shoei or Helmet House website now to find out where you can get this done!
It can be challenging to find the right bike, especially if you’re a short rider. The challenges faced by shorter riders are different from those faced by taller riders. Doodle on a Motorcycle, a motovlogger, regularly receives unsolicited advice about her choice of bike and her ability to lift it. In response, she turned these comments into a challenge for herself.
Doodle had been wanting to incorporate strength training into her life for a long time. Setting a challenge to lift her bike 100 times a day allowed her to work towards her goal. During the challenge, she consulted experts and received feedback on her technique.
Every rider is different, and what works for one person may not work for another. Doodle realized that she needed to adjust her lifting strategy when she felt the strain in her shoulders and arms instead of her legs. She modified her approach and continued the challenge.
However, she encountered knee pain at a certain point in the challenge. To prevent further injury, she decided to scale back her efforts. She didn’t want to give up entirely, so she modified the challenge to meet her needs and abilities.
After completing the challenge, Doodle noticed a significant improvement in her ability to lift her bike. She now feels more confident in her ability to handle dropped bikes during her future road trips.
Haiden Deegan, a rookie professional rider, continues to achieve impressive feats in his career. This video could potentially be another milestone for him. Dirt Shark and Monster Energy collaborated with Star Racing Yamaha, Haiden Deegan, Brian Deegan, and even enlisted the help of the legendary Ricky Carmichael.
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