Jake Whitaker

2 months ago

Happy to finish off the season with a win at the last round of the New Zealand Hard Enduro Championship in the weekend.

The Kapi-Mana Club put on a completely new track on the Judds property. Big thanks to everyone that helped to make this happen. Im looking forward to getting back to this one again in the future.

Congratulations to Ryan Hayward on the series win. Consistently good and well deserved boy! 💪🏻

Thanks to Jane Whitaker and the kids for coming out and supporting me, Anthony McGladdery for the bike prep, and to all my sponsors for their continued support throughout the year.
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Jake Whitaker

3 months ago

We headed north to race the annual Husqvarna Hard Adventure Enduro over labour weekend. It’s always a cool event to be apart of and the riding didn’t disappoint once again.

Fridays prologue was cool on the new enduro-x track in Taupo at MX fest. I had fun out on the track and managed to grab a win after a fun battle with Wil.

On Saturday we headed for the forest and got into some proper hard enduro. I had a good morning but things went a bit south for me just before the lunch stop. I managed to get a bit out of shape on a steep downhill with my bike landing perfectly in a bottomless bog. Had some really polite chats to myself while I thought no one could hear 🤣. Luckily John heard the commotion and ran up the hill to help me dig her out. Thanks mate! Big clean up job over the lunch stop and boxed on for the afternoon to finish the day in 3rd.

We got a heap of rain over night, so I was expecting a tougher day on Sunday. The track was definitely a level or two up from the previous day and it was good to get stuck into some really tough terrain. One really hard gold section right near the end of the day made us work pretty hard. I arrived here on my own in 3rd with a decent gap on the next guys. After about 45min of having multiple goes at sections of the hill, I got to a point where I couldn’t get any further alone and was forced to wait for the next guys to show up (the front two boys were together so could team up without losing too much time). Myself, Tony and Archer teamed up to get each other through. Team work makes the dream work… but none of us were loving riding our dirt bikes by this time 😂. Thanks Sean Clarke you sick man.

The Mitas 754 rear tyre was once again the perfect choice for the terrain over the two days and couldn’t recommend a better choice in tyre for this event.

I finished the weekend off in 3rd overall in the gold class. Congrats to Wil and Ryan on 1st and 2nd! Both of you were flying all weekend 👏🏻.

Thanks to the guys and girls in my corner getting me through such a big weekend! Shaun, Bryce, Ants and of course Jane and the kids for chasing me around all weekend - you are all legends.

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Jake Whitaker

4 months ago

Big thanks to NZ Motorcycle Show for having us over the weekend! 👍🏻
📸 Blissful Photography
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Jake Whitaker

4 months ago

We had some awesome crowds this weekend at the NZ Motorcycle Show thanks for coming to check us out! Auckland turned on the sun just in time for both our shows yesterday! 👌🏻
Thanks to Blissful Photography for the awesome shots.
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