Look under most of the top American off-road racers, and some of the most common things you are going to see are FK Rod Ends and Ball Joints. And FK hardware dominates in their Rock Bouncers, and Ultra 4 weapons as well. Across the Tasman, FK is what you will find as the suspension...
Motoring journalists all around the world have been impressed by the new Suzuki Jimny since its release. And after a weekend using the Jimny as a camera car at the Tararua Winch Challenge, we agree. Sure it gets knocked for its lack of highway sophistication, but that’s almost exclusively...
Day 2 of the 2019 Kawhia Safari and we rejoin Murray Taylor, and just under 80 adventurers as they head South from Kawhia Village, up the Hauturu Valley, before returning cross country alongside the inner reaches of Kawhia Harbour. Sunday started bright and sunny, and with Saturday’s...
NZ TRIALS SERIES 2019/20 – ROUND 1 (Eastern Bays Twin Diff Club) PICS BY SAM BOLTON AND DENA PLUMRIDGE The BOP towns motto is “Everything under the sun,” and as the host of round 1 of the NZ Trial Series for 2019/20, Whakatane lived up to its hype, throwing hill climbs, sidlings, dust...
A new format combining winch challenge and offroad racing was introduced to the NZ 4WD competition scene at the 4×4 Events promoted Novawinch King of Canterbury extreme off-road race, just up the road from Methven. Although a number of pretenders to the throne turned up, and it got...
PHOTOS BY DENA PLUMRIDGE The day following the final round of ORANZ’s South Island Championship decider, the Otago Offroad racing club held a special endurance race for the survivors. By extending the short course track out into the surrounding farmland at Slim and Janina Slee’s Timaru...
Geyserland 4WD Club went to see just how far north of the Daintree they could get in the 10 days we had available to them. Spoiler: It was pretty far.
Broadlands School, their helpers and the Taupo Four Wheel Drive Club all worked together to produce an event that ran smoothly all day.
