Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine

AS WE WENT to print the 2024 edition of the Dakar Rally had just finished and our very own Toby Price (Red Bull KTM) and Daniel Sanders ( Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing) had finished the gruelling 12-stage epic in one piece and both inside the top 10

STARK FUTURE has been told by MA that they will allow their electric motocross bike, the Varg, to race at the highest level of competition in Australian dirtbike racing. This means it will be eligible to contest the MX1 category of the Penrite ProMX

KTM HAVE UNVEILED their 2024 Factory Edition with the same design philosophy: “To build a highly evolved and modified spec of the current production model orientated towards pure performance” KTM said. “The upgrades have been tried, tested, and selec

HAVE YOU EVER heard of Tacita? We hadn’t until we saw their name in the teams registered for this year’s Dakar Rally. Tacita are an electric motorcycle company that started in 2011 thanks to the founder Pierpaolo and the cofounder, his wife, Dina. Th

THERE’S NO BETTER RIDING FACILITY THAN A FACTORY COMPOUND! A factory compound is a professional riders private training ground and we have access to Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing’s, Daniel “Chucky” Sanders, compound in Three Bridges, Victoria. When

Round 2 of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross was one of the wettest races in recent memory. Despite the colossal downpour, the race went ahead and riders slipped and slid for a shortened 15-minute Main Event. Red Bull KTM’s Chase Sexton prevailed in

Well, 2024 sure is set to be a big year for the GASGAS brand as they have come out swinging with a fresh new line-up of bikes and the brand seems to have a whole new lease on life going into 2024. GASGAS is a part of the KTM (Pierer Mobility Group) f

Multi-day trailrides are awesome but they’re not easy for regular punters. Day one is usually the most fun as your body and mind have the energy to ride at 100 per cent. From day two or maybe day three onwards, fatigue sets in and the ride becomes pr

For over a decade, 450cc machines have been viewed as the pinnacle bike to be on for motocross racing, and while ever the likes of Jett Lawrence and Jorge Prado are dominating all over the world on these machines, this is not going to change in a hur

Just like many other countries in the world, Australia’s hard enduro racing scene has grown significantly during the last few years. So much that Sherco Australia often fields three team riders on race days. One of the Riders is Chris Perry, who for

You might be wondering why a full-grown adult is straddling this MY24 Honda CRF110, well that’s my wife, Abbey. I won’t bore you with our love story of how we met but one bit of detail I will reveal is that my wife had no idea what a dirtbike was whe

The biggest Husky has received an upgrade. Punters wanted the “old” Norden to be more dirt-focussed, and the factory has responded with this new model named the Expedition. The biggest change is the XPLOR suspension taken off the KTM 890 Adventure R.

About 20 years ago, the 230cc four-stroke was reborn. Yamaha and Honda made what was then known as the CRF230F and TT-R230, respectively. The CRF230F debuted in 2003 as a trailriding and recreational off-road machine. The bike ran an air-cooled 223cc

Part 2 of our miniseries will focus on a few more ‘advanced’ techniques that can improve your riding skills on the E-MTB and eventually crossover onto your moto. I asked our test subject and boss man Mitch Lees what areas he thinks he needs to work o

One of the most common questions we get asked is where someone can go riding out of any of our capital cities. Unfortunately my expertise in where to ride doesn’t really stretch further than NSW. I lived in Melbourne for two years and rode almost eve

Snowbikes, snowmobiles, ski bikes, Timbersleds, the machines designed to ride in the snow are pretty well like talking in another language to us Aussies, as we essentially have nowhere that we can ride them. The concept is simple you need a wide foot

TECH HOW TO Enduro bikes live a tough life. One thing I never want to be reincarnated as is a two-stroke hard enduro bike. Those things get thrashed harder than the Australian rugby team. The inception of hard enduro has now made it acceptable to lau

THE LAST YAMAHA YZ450F test bike I had in my garage was a MY19 model. I have to admit I was a fan of the MY19 model and thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. The bike gave me no troubles and I really enjoyed riding it. Fast forward five years and I fin

THE STOCKMAN, a modern interpretation of the Ag bike, is one of the few on the market with up to date styling and a fuel injection system with an old-school, air-cooled motor. Why would you want fuel injection? Because it does away with the choke lev

BY THE TIME you read this I will have just handed back the 2023 Sherco 300 SE Factory to Mojo Motorcycles so it can be reborn and moved on to another two-stroke loving owner. In the next issue of ADB we will run a feature on my time with the Sherco a

SINCE WORKING as sweep rider on the VIP Experience rides in 2022 and 2023 it has been brought to my attention that most regular punters do not know the right way to approach a hill climb, especially a hard one. As a sweep, I spend most of my time rid

WHETHER YOU’RE stopping for lunch or working on your bike, a table is a good thing to have when you’re at the track. You can rest tools on it or eat your lunch off it. You pretty much can’t go to the track without a table. We used to use a small tres

EARLY ON in my tenure with the 2023 Sherco 300 SE Factory I decided I needed to go up a couple teeth on the rear sprocket to give the Sherco a little more torgue and allow me to carry second gear more often. I opted to go up two teeth to a blue anodi

TOOLS T-BARS, SPANNERS, SPRING PULLERS, SOCKETS, SCREW DRIVERS The guys at Yamaha Australia have given us a bunch of GYTR parts to test on our 2024 YZ 450F long term test bike. One of those parts happens to be a Yoshimura complete exhaust system. The

KEEPING YOUR feet dry can go a long way to ensuring your comfortable on a long ride, more so if the ride involves lots of water crossings. Having tried many various methods with limited success over the years I was happy to try the Stormsock to see h

The Honda CRF50F comes with a high tensile steel backbone frame, a steel swingarm and steel triple clamps. The Honda CRF50F comes in at a dry weight of 47.2kg. The Honda has a non-adjustable, hydraulic dampened, rear shock and the fork has a non damp

ALMOST everything about each model has changed with updates for both bikes including adjustable ergonomics, as well as new bodywork, new motors, and new frames. The engineers have made the all-new generation MC 50 and MC 65 adjustable in size allowin

WE JUMP IN THE “way back” machine yet again for a look at what was on the enduro market in 1977. This test was a two way shootout between the SWM and KTM 125’s but we’re just concerned with the Italian offering this time. The SWM RS 125GS was a Rotax

Where does your story begin? It started in 1970 at 11 years old. Dad bought me a Yamaha 80 roadbike with a pressed steel frame that he modified with braced handlebars, knobby tyres and things like that. We lived in Manjimup and Dad was a keen motocro

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Mar 2 Bathurst Longtrack Masters Mar 9-10 East Coast MX Series Rd 2 Mar 3 Motocross Rd 2. llparpa Park Mar 3 Wet Season ATV MX Rd 1, Hidden Valley Motor Sports Complex Mar 9 Elsewhere on Wheels International Women’s Day MX, Darwin Aerial Farm Mar 10

KEEN TO GO on an adventure ride through NSW where all the details are taken care of? Where the route, accommodation, food, everything is all sorted, all you have to do is lob up on your bike? You need to get on a Moto Trekkin ride. Moto Trekkin are a

* Prices marked with an asterisk are rideaway, ‘no more to pay’ If you’re looking for a good two-stroke ride to start a career in hard enduro then the Sherco 300 SE Factory is as good a place to start as any. Chris Perry regularly puts his on the pod

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