Battle Star
The Grand National Cross Country series in the US is a huge deal. Regarded as the biggest and most prestigious cross-country series in the world, GNCC attracts the best riders and the competition is tough.
The tracks are nasty and rough, covering terrain with just about everything including tree roots, hills, rocks, clay, mud, sand, open paddocks and even sections of motocross tracks now and again. The races are brutal because riders go ’bar-to-’bar, flat-out for three -hours, stopping only to take on fuel.
Australia’s Josh Strang has been racing GNCC for 15 years and is currently racing a Babbitt’s Online Kawasaki KX450X. It takes a tough rider to withstand the demands of GNCC racing but riders also need a bike that can take one hell of a beating. Strangy’s KX450X is a finely-crafted GNCC weapon and, if we were to put a
