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The right amount of hard

This is a story for the Hard Enduro wannabe. This is a story for the rider that is keen but hasn't yet fully committed themselves to...

May 25, 20246 min read

KTM: The toothbrush more dentists use.

If you are old enough to have taken your first breath, fresh out of the womb, sometime in the 70's or 80's you'd remember the ORAL B...

Apr 25, 20245 min read

The three dimensions of Hard Enduro - which way is up?

Blur your eyes and cock your head, just slightly askew - is Luke standing upright with his bike on its side or is his bike upright on a...

Apr 8, 20246 min read

Frankenstein and Backpack: both can give life to the dead.

I got a friend request just the other day. Spending as much time as I do on the keyboard, and on social media, that should come as no...

Mar 30, 20245 min read

Skin in the game.

Based in the hills of Lesmurdie, Western Australia, it'd be fair to assume that Jakob Petrig may struggle, a little, finding his way...

Mar 21, 20244 min read

5 ways to tighten a sphincter.

I wasn't entirely sure on the logic behind the bringing together of rodeo, burnouts, comp trucks, motocross and hard enduro. But then I...

Feb 27, 20245 min read

Hard Enduro is the Happy Gilmore approach to Trials.

"Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin! I came to win, battle me, that's a sin I won't ever slack up, Punk, ya better back up HE riders...

Feb 22, 20244 min read

Pink Elephants on Parade

It is rather bizarre what goes through one's mind when riding Trials. There are the usual, run-of-the-mill "on any Sunday" questions that...

Feb 4, 20243 min read

Restoring a bike is like birthing a child.

I'm not mechanical so I can't know what it feels like to restore a bike from 'basket case' to 'showroom' condition. But I can imagine it...

Jan 28, 20243 min read

Ticking off your Hard Enduro checklist.

Some time ago, in a lil' story called "Checklist" I suggested that to ride Hard Enduro there were a couple of critical things you needed....

Jan 19, 20242 min read

The W.A. Hard Enduro Series 2024: This is NOT a bedtime story.

There are likely more characters on the W.A. Hard Enduro scene than in all of the nineteen children's novels written by one of the...

Jan 11, 20244 min read

Explore '24

The most wonderful, powerful and coveted thing in life is 'choice'. Fortunately, many riders have it. Riding is good like that. You don't...

Jan 3, 20244 min read

The poor cousin could be the blushing bride: just add Supermoto, Hard Enduro and Trials.

Wyndham - to say it is the poor cousin of the East Kimberley region is an understatement. Withering with a population of only about 1000...

Dec 4, 20234 min read

The X effect: don't think, just do!

I speak with little authority! But permit me to speak, because I need to speak volumes to the masses! To those that are wanting to go...

Nov 30, 20233 min read

Wade winged at Wildwood: Ruben runs away with it.

Beta Racing's Ruben Chadwick has already taken out the Australian Hard Enduro Championship for 2023. But, judging by the way he threw...

Nov 23, 20234 min read

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