Issue 239

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All things dirtbike from Australia and around the world.

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Dex Fulton ART DIRECTOR Kate Podger REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS Scott Bishop, Greg Masters, Chris Urquhart, Alan Hardy, Frank Hoppen, Max Sullivan, Russell Colvin, Andrew Kenny, Adam Riemann ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES Adam Davy 0423 373 470 ADVERTISING PRODUCTIO
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Dex, Don’t Touch That Red Button!
In case you missed the last issue, allow myself to re-introduce, um, myself. My name is Dex and I’m the guy who’s busily working a new butt-groove into the editor’s chair here at DIRT ACTION. I thought I would share one of my favourite things about m
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Delayed Aorc Dates Announced
Initially scheduled to take place back in March, the Nowra rounds of the 2021 Yamaha Australian Off-Road Championship (AORC) had to be postponed due to some rather catastrophic rainfall and flooding in the area. The deluge turned the track and pits i
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Tim Coleman Doing Better After Grassroots Enduro Shock
Hard enduro powerhouse and Sherco rider Tim Coleman was not in a good way at round one of the Grassroots Enduro series, The Tenterfield Terror, back in March. Tim collapsed from what was later to be determined as heatstroke, and after being cared for
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Veri Vinduro Back For 2021
In case you don’t know about VERi, they’re the Vintage Enduro Riders Inc. and they put on an event that has been described by competitors as “nothing short of awesome”. The Australian Three Day Vintage Enduro is a spectacle you have to see for yourse
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Klx230s Gets Revised Seat Height
New for this year is the addition of Kawasaki’s brand-spanking KLX230S, which is going to serve as a replacement for the popular KLX230R. The new bike is more accessible and has had the seat height lowered by 25mm down to 900mm, which will suit short
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Rykers Shaping Up As Something Special In Wonthaggi
While we’re talking about the green machine, Empire Kawasaki returned to racing at Wonthaggi’s 2021 ProMX Championship opener in April, marking the team’s national debut with Jayden Rykers competing in MX1 on-board his KX450 (for more on this excitin
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Cfmoto Zforce 1000 Eps Sport Comes Out Swinging
Looking to keep up with the kids on the property or around the paddock and don’t want to put the kilometres on your race bike? CFMoto have got you covered with their new side-by-side vehicle (SSV), the ZForce 1000 EPS Sport. Available in either red o
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Sherco Getting The Kids Started
Want to get your grom started off on the right foot with their riding? Competing for parent of the year? Then Sherco have you covered with their electric balance bikes. Starting at $649 for the smaller EB12 and hitting $749 for the EB16, these things
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Gasgas Racing Team Geared Up And Ready To Rock
GASGAS Racing Team has jumped into the 2021 Australian Off-Road Championship and all-new ProMX Championship with both feet, spearheading each series with Mason Semmens and Aaron Tanti respectively. At just 19 years of age, Semmens is regarded as one
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Atv Laws Landing Soon
While we’re talking four-wheeled fun meeting bureaucracy, following the recent introduction of the Australian government’s mandatory Consumer Goods (Quad Bike) Safety Standard, CFMoto is tackling the issue head on Stage two of the legislation require
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Beta Riders Podium At Kosciuszko Killer
Beta riders achieved outstanding results at the recent Grassroots Enduro Kosciuszko Killer Hard Enduro event. Beta Australia’s Ruben Chadwick led the charge, setting the quickest time in the prologue and taking out second position in Gold / Pro Class
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Battle Lines
Yamaha’s WR250F has been dominating the 250cc four-stroke enduro sales race in Australia since its introduction. It’s been crowned prince with a massive following, but that reign at the top is definitely under attack. We’ve been mighty impressed with
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Bavarian Birthday
Cast your thoughts back to 1980 and you might recall it was the year Mount St Helens blew its top in the American north-west, the Cable News Network hit our screens for the first time, John Lennon was shot down in a New York street and the mind-twist
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Finke What It Takes To Get “There And Back”
Stephen Greenfield is a legend when it comes to the Finke. He has been involved in more races, in one way or another, than you can imagine. He has built race-winning bikes, tuned suspension, serviced bikes, mentored riders, and did I mention picked u
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Mx Is Back, Baby!
It’s no secret that coronavirus has taken a bat to the economy. Small to medium businesses in particular have borne much of the financial brunt of the crisis and to the dismay of racers and fans everywhere, the MX Nationals Series was one of the casu
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Dan “Chucky” Sanders
Twenty-twenty was a hell of a year for Dan Sanders. Not only did he finish an astounding fourth in his very first crack at the Dakar Rally, but he also managed to win the outright championship in the AORC the previous year and also a little race call
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20 Th Anniversary, Baby!
The Easter long weekend would see most families vacationing somewhere up or down the coast, but not the avid amateur motocross racer. They headed to the Sapphire Speedway for the first round of the OGIO AMCROSS BEGA presented by DIRT ACTION. Campers,
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Game Changers
The late ‘70s and early ‘80s were, from an innovation standpoint at least, arguably the greatest time for motocross bikes. It seemed that every year manufacturers brought new and exciting technology to the party, starting with the 1973 Honda CR250 El
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Braaap Mx450
In case you haven’t heard of them, Braaap Motorcycles have been around for 15 years and are an Australian importer of café racers, mini-bikes and, now, dirtbikes. “Yeah, wow, another online importbike re-seller,” I hear you saying, but there are a co
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Pro-green Mx
PRO-GREEN-MX cleaning products have recently landed in Australia thanks to Steve Cramer Products. The brand hails from, and was developed on, the muddy trails of the UK, so that in itself signals some sort of credibility. There is only one way to kno
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Two-fiddy Vs Four-fiddy
It’s a question that is asked over and over by riders looking to step up from their 125s: “should I go a 250f or a 450f?” and given that modern bikes are very different beasts from even a few years ago, we thought we should do our best to get an answ
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Finke Follies Moto Quiz
01 Who has the most Finke wins? A) Randall Gregory B) Toby Price C) Ben Grabham 02 How many wins is the current record? A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 03 In what year was the race first run? A) 1976 B) 1975 C) 1974 04 Who was the first winner? A) Peter Stayt B) Phil
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5 Things We Love
01 Sick of camping out of the back of the ute? You could bring a five-star hotel along with you, keep yourself and your bikes out of the elements, and lord it over the peasants camping in the mud. 02 The Basestation comes with a fridge, cooktop, micr
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New Tech
ARC is an American company that specialises in levers for motorbikes. Seems a bit obvious, right? But that’s a hell of an oversimplification. Since 1999 they’ve been designed to fit a rider’s hand positioning on a dirtbike perfectly, and they have al
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Riding Ruts
So many of us seem to hate riding ruts on the MX track. They can upset the bike, convince you that the front end is millimetres from washing out in front of you, and even lead to some pretty gnarly crashes. Rutted tracks can be daunting at first, so
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Servicing Basics
They say prevention is better than cure, and maintaining your motorbike is exactly that — preventing anything from going too wrong mechanically speaking and leaving you stranded on the side of the track wondering why your engine is hissing steam and

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