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Podium finish for Special
European Enduro Championship Round 3

The 3rd round of the European Enduro Championship took place in Vysny Medzev (Slovakia) on the 15/16th August. UEM Round 3, Vysny Medzev, Slovakia. Details

Other News
David Knight – the Britain’s #1 enduro racer – is 100 per cent behind the Putoline Oils Elite Sprint Enduro - Details
Happy Birthday to Mandy Edmondson this Friday 21st August.
ACU - Round eight of the MMX British Quad Championship visited the traditional circuit of Blaxhall Pits on Sunday 16th August, hosted by the enthusiastic Woodbridge Club. Details
SCEC ISDE Team changes - With the terrible news of Bradley Kings accident in Slovakia and Stan Watt being unable to get out of a Dessert Rally in preparation for the 2010 Dakar (which was booked when we thought we would be unable to get a team place) it is all change and we have to call in not one but two reserve riders!!! The SCEC Team to go to Portugal is original member Danny Hall, joined by Midwest Racings Tyson Maytom Jones and Wayne Player, Team manager Danielle Hall.This will be Tysons first ISDE and Waynes second. We wish Bradley and family all the best and hope he makes a fast recovery, he will be missed as a valued team member,but there isalways next year! Get well soon Brad.
Ollie Moyce's Midwest Husaberg report from the UEM Rd3 Slovakia - Details
WEC - MAXXIS GRAND PRIX OF GREECE on August 29/30th - Preview
Mark Hucklebridge wins Ardua - Results

Other News
GBXC Round 6 - Highlights by Alex Rankin - Video
Ben Wootton wins WOR 5hr Ironman @ Happy Village - Results
Sheep Skull Enduro Riders' Dyfi report - Details
Fred Rist Long Distance Trial - Round 2 ACU Trail bike championship - Photos
Taddy dominates US Endurocross Rnd 2 in Oklahoma - Details
Dougie Lampkin Summer Trials School - Addingham Moorside, West Yorkshire - Details
American Motorcyclist Association announces AMA Team USA riders for 2009 Motocross of Nations - Details
Gethin Price uses the elastic property of the tape to get a slingshot out of the corners - Details
Bradley King has had a nasty crash on Friday while practicing at the UEM Championship in Slovakia. He knocked himself out and fractured 2 vertebrae in his lower back. He hopes to be flown home next week but he will be flat on his back for a while. All the best for a speedy recovery Brad. Remember Rob Sartin fractured his back the year before he won the BEC Championship so get well soon.
Fundraising Night for Nick Crowe and Mark Cox 21st August, The Yorkshire Suite, Northallerton, DL7 8PP - Details
2010 Red Bull FIM Motocross of Nations to be run at the Thunder Valley Motocross Park near Denver, Colorado on 25/26th September.

Dyfi 2009

The British Enduro Championship returned to the Dyfi Forest. Report & Results

Other News
Tamsin Jones' Isle of Man 2 day enduro and trail riding adventure - Details
David Knight will miss this weekend's Red Bull Romaniacs because his bike was held up in Customs on route from te USA. His next main event will be the WEC in Greece on the 29/30th August.
Lampkin & Jarvis joins Knight in Sheffield World Indoor Enduro - Details
GBXC - Round 6 Baden Hall - Updated reports from KTM Uk, Tom Sagar, Lee Edmondson, GasGas Uk Matt Ridgway & Mark Roberts - Details
AMA Champions Crowned at 28th Annual Air Nautiques AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship presented by Amsoil at Loretta Lynn Ranch - Details
German Cross Country Championship - Rd6 - Mühlhausen - Datails
ACU - Trial des Nations team announced - Details
ACU - Sidecar des Nations team line-up announced - Details

Red Bull X-fighters launches innovative youtube battle

Red Bull X-Fighters is a high-energy spectacle in which riders on motorbikes combine power, skill, showmanship and bravery to excite fans. The World Tour has garnered a huge international following since its conception in 2001 with jumps and tricks getting harder, higher and longer every year – often reaching heights of 40 feet.

The 2009 calendar is no less impressive and before making its debut in London, the series will have already touched down in Mexico City (Mexico), Calgary (Canada), Fort Worth (Texas, USA) and Madrid (Spain).....

There is now an innovative X-Fighters Youtube Battle available that lets you Experience the thrills and spills of the ultimate adrenalin-fuelled freestyle motocross competition. Choose your rider and let battle commence! Along the way you’ll have to pick your best tricks to stay in the battle – one false move and you’ll be eating dirt and out of the competition. Choose wisely and you’ll be declared Red Bull X-Fighters champion! Check it out for yourself here: Details

Don't miss exclusive UK coverage of the Red Bull X Fighters on Dave, every Tuesday at 8pm!

Classic Cwmowen

Sunday 9th August.

Gethin Price has won the revival of Builth Wells Mcc's Cwmowen Enduro

After a break of 15 years the Mid Wales club returned to this unique open moorland venue north of Brecon & the riders were rewarded with superb days racing.

Report & results

Other News
Happy 28th Birthday to Dylan Jones.
Matt Ridgway's Big Weekend - Kingswood to the GBXC - Reports
Big Weekend for team GGUK - Details

Bolter wins Rd6

Having won the Lites, Daryl Bolter won this weekend's 6th round of the GBXC series at Baden Hall.on a KTM 450. Greg Evans was the runner up. Aston Bird was 3rd & Tom Sagar was 4th. Report & results

Other News
Matt Ridgway wins from Tyson Maytom-Jones at Kingswood - Report & results
Robbie Maddison backflips over Tower Bridge - Video

St Georges MCC's ISDE Team

St Georges MCC have announced their Team England to compete in the 2009 International Six Days Enduro @ Figueira de Foz. The team will consist of James Jackman (Poole Motorcycles) Julian Harvey (Jim Aim Motorcycles) & James Yearley (Cannon BMW) with team manager Deb Harvey - Facebook

Other News
John Shirt Jr reviews the 2010 GasGas range of models - Details
Steve Turner of Kent Police, Central Motorcycle Team reminds us all to improve our chances of getting a stolen bike returned by recording the chassis & engine numbers as well as photographing the bike & marking/engraving or Datatagging parts in hidden areas.
Mountain Top Enduro - 13th Sept - The entry will be limited to 90 entries and will offer a mix of fast flowing tracks and some new forestry going not used in enduros here over the last 2 years. With only 2 rounds remaining in the Ceredigion Enduro Championship this event remains key in riders securing the result they want. Regs
rideoffroaduk are & Hound Challenge Round 7 - 23rd August - Low North Park, Harwood Dale, N Yorks - Details
British Enduro Championship Standings - Updated

THE BIFFSTAR IS MASTERFULL AT BOWLAND
ROUND 8 NATIONAL PUTOLINE HARE SCRAMBLE CHAMPIONSHIP BOLTON BY BOWLAND

The dirtbike-traxs crew returned to Bolton by Bowland for the second and last time this year for round 8 of the national putoline hare scramble championship, and as now seems the norm with the good old British summer were met with miserable conditions after yet another week of rain, some of it extremely heavy, the event was going to be a test for the riders. Details

Other News
Happy Birthday to Ollie Moyce.on Tuesday 4th August.
The Ecosse Elite team of Derek Little, Murray Thompson & Frazer Norrie won the Dyfi round of the BEC Team Competition - Details
Congratulations to Edward Jones on winning the E1 2T title - Details
Congratulations to Carl Tiley on winning the Veterans - Details
Euan McConnell has had his neck injury checked out & there is no permanent damage.
Vic Madeley has confirmed that the feedback from the Dyfi has been very positive & MWTRA will be applying for a BEC round in 2010.
West Glos & Dean Forest MCC's Chicken Run HH has been moved from the 16th August to the 30th August - Details
MacKenzie Trophy Trial - The penultimate round of the 2009 ACU Events British Trials Championship near Brimham Rocks at Summerbridge - Details
Dougie Lampkin injured at ACU British Solo Trials Championship - Details
KTM - Tony Cairoli and Team de Carli to ride Orange with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing in 2010 - Details
ACU British MMX Motocross Championship - 5th round - Glenrothes - Details

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