HUSKY MAN
LEADS THE
WAY AT
ENDURO
NATIONALS
Dylan Yearbury is up to his same old
tricks... stealing the spotlight in one of
the world’s most demanding of sports.
Story: Andy McGechan, bikesportnz.com
T
he 25-year-old builder from Cambridge
was one of the front-running riders last
season and now he is leading the way
after the opening two rounds of the 2020
New Zealand Enduro Championships on the
weekend of June 13-14 and he says the trick
now will be to ensure he’s still shining brightly
in a month’s time.
The enduro nationals got off to a late but
welcome start in June with two back-toback
events in the Wairarapa region and
Yearbury and his new Husqvarna TE300i
were at the forefront on both occasions.
Record entries greeted organisers for both
days of this high-profile dirt bike
competition – round one near Masterton
on the Saturday and round two near
Martinborough the following day – possibly
boosted by the fact that this was the first
major motorcycling event to be staged
since restrictions were lifted after 10 weeks
of sporting inactivity due to the Coronavirus
Covid-19 pandemic lock-down.
A revised schedule had been formulated
to ensure the championships could still be
squeezed into the shortened calendar, the
compact Yamaha-sponsored series this
year comprising just four rounds over two
separate weekends, with second half of the
series, rounds three and four, coming up in
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