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WHES Final Round 5: What's your excuse now?
What else can ya say? The greatest challenge of the racing season? Trying to find particular words that perfectly place it all into...
Sep 264 min read


WHES Round 4: The Price of Chase(n) the Jackal.
All is never as it seems in Hard Enduro (chaos caught by Laughing Bulldog Images) Chaos can confer or confound opportunity, but...
Aug 256 min read


WHES Round 3: The Dardanup Dash delivered.
Make sure you are comfortable and have a full roll of toilet tissue because the Sherco Australia W.A. Hard Enduro Series Round 3:...
Jul 295 min read


WHES Round 3: Will Dardanup dish up a Dash of spice?
For all intent and purpose, the winner of this event is going to be harder to pick than a broken nose. Especially for Round 2 winner Kal...
Jul 226 min read


What's the one thing that money can't buy?
The Premier Mill Hotel - Not just any old building in any old wheatbelt town. It has been a pretty full-on year at work: by that I mean...
Jul 154 min read


Agenda neutral!
This truth bomb, I reckon, is a reputational sink and swim moment. It used to look like this. I love bikes. I love riding bikes. Road,...
Jul 74 min read


Humbled by a CFMoto at the 48th Capel 200.
Coffee in hand ( thanks to the Mundy Pub owners and their mobile caffeine fixative machine ), we stood in the sunshine whilst Ironstone...
Jul 24 min read


The Sanchification of Don Quixote: WHES set the stage at MounTurner.
Corps de Ballet in the paddock: there is nothing more magical than the sun shining on the start line. If ever you've seen a solid Hard...
May 276 min read


Joe Dirt jams a round peg in a square hole.
As with most Twisted tales, this one is underpinned by a very fundamental theme. "If it ain't fit for purpose, then make it fit your...
Mar 58 min read


Feeding the thieves?
Remember when you'd be out in the yard, you'd hear the sweet sound of a two-banger or the growl of an angry thumper, you'd look down at...
Feb 83 min read


The Yeti says "If it ain't broke don't fix it!"
Many people don't understand how evolution works. They think it's a process of radical and absolute change. But it's not! Quite the...
Jan 2515 min read


Chasin' the podium.
Do you remember the first time the circus rolled into town? Wandering wide-eyed as the crowd sucked you into the big top - you knew what...
Nov 14, 20243 min read


Get more bang for your ADV buck!
If you had spent $3K on a Bergara B-14 HMR or Browning X-Bolt Hell's Canyon Long Range to shoot tin cans off fence posts at 30 yards,...
Oct 26, 20243 min read


WHES did the year go!
Some time back, when it was hot, dry and dusty, I was waxing lyrical about all that WHES had in store for '24. A Womens Class, a Junior...
Oct 7, 20244 min read


The boulders of Brookton made for a Savage event.
"I'm sooooooo flat out at the moment, I reckon I've only got time for one or two rounds this year: MounTurner and Brookton. I'd love to...
Jul 18, 20243 min read
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