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The 2024 New Zealand Motocross Championships may be headed to the deep south this weekend, but we can again expect the race action to be red hot. This first of four rounds in the Yamaha Motor New Zealand-sponsored series was held near Rotorua three .
Apart from an exponential rise in compliance costs, the Monkey fell victim to the ageing of the Otago Motorcycle Club organising committee. Now they are all close to 80 and reckon they deserve a rest. Hard to argue with that after 40 years. Sadly the weather gods failed to bless the final Brass Monkey with a decent frost. Temperatures sat around a balmy 8 degrees Celsius, a far cry from 2018 when the hoar frost kept things well south of zero. My team of Monkettes has a taste for roads less travelled. Ideally they go from nowhere to nowhere and there’s a quicker way for those in a hurry. This year our rally route included the Hakataramea Track, the Old Dunstan Rd and the Black Forest Track.