Te Puke Endurocross

Reece Burgess report

The 2nd Annual Endurocross organized by the Te Puke Motorcycle Club and held at the Te Puke A & P Show was once again a great success with Rory Mead edging out Michael Philips in the final.

In the final race,Michael Phillips lead most of the way and Rory was last off the line to chase Michael all the way and catch him in the last two laps, well deserved win.

I won my two heats and came second to Rory in the semi final after getting stuck in the rocks and coming back from 6th.

The heat was intense in such an energy demanding event and I think I cooked my goose a bit in the semi finals as the final I started banging bars to get to 3rd but made a bit of a mess in the rocks again draining energy. After this I coasted over the next few obstacles making them way harder but I needed to get some strength back. The result was being pitched over the front by the firewood (see photo above).

The intensity caught me by surprise a bit. My plan was to wait till the final then go big off everything except the logs but getting pitched put a big dent in that plan as I was a bit bumped but drained of energy. I finished up 5th.

We made the track over the last week and tested it out the night before but a couple of the guys could not circulate so for the morning we ramped the bases slightly which unfortunately meant you could hit them a lot faster and jump off them but it was still very demanding and great to watch between our heats so it was a good compromise.

Final Results & Placing

Rory Mead
Michael Phillips
Karl Power
Phil Skinner
Reece Burgess
Chris Singleton
Phil Singleton
Greg Delatour

A special thanks to Ian & Julie from Coastline Honda for putting up $1000 prize Money split between all riders in the final race – in fact, except for 1^st place, it paid better than the Tarawera 100.