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Pinky Swear!
On the safe side of the race tape, we all looked at each other! In our excitement we squealed like the sopranos of the tabernacle choir...
Jun 12, 20245 min read


Wetter than an otter's pocket!
"It's gunna be wetter than an otter's pocket, but I @#$@ love a good pond session." (#918 Halen Wickert is the Gentleman of W.A. Hard...
Jun 7, 20242 min read


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
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