accidentally“ skipped about 40 kilometres of the course”. This later cost them with time penalties being imposed.“ Owen Broughton actually won day two, which was something of a surprise,” said Clarke.“ It was a great experience for all the riders, I believe, with the top five or six riders all very close until
the end.“ We were very lucky with the weekend in terms of the weather, because the rains came on Labour Weekend Monday.” The top individual in the Silver Grade at the weekend was Inglewood’ s Regan George( KTM), with Gisborne’ s Angus Thomas( Beta) winning Bronze and Warkworth’ s Chris White( Beta) collecting the Iron Grade honours. In addition to Husqvarna NZ, the event was sponsored by Forestland Motorcycle Club, Forest Trail Events, Kiwi Rider Magazine, Ogio, O’ Neal apparel, Arai helmets, Blur, Muc-Off, Forma, USWE, Maxima oils, Maxi Grip, Forbes & Davies, SATCO logging attachments and Metzeler tyres.
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