Well Jake left yesterday for Sydney, where he will be training up until the World Round.
We all wish him the best of luck with his endeavors in this round!!!

Im sure Jake will fill you in as soon as he can about the weekend of the event and include some photos, so watch this space.

For all of you who don’t know, we have entered a video of Jake in the Hitachi Heat Pump competition in hope of winning the grand prize of $10,000 to go towards his 2012 trials season. Your votes would be greatly appreciated!!

To vote CLICK HERE

Cheers,

Georgina

Well the first two rounds up in Taranaki (North Island Championship) kicked off with a good result to start the year, winning both days comfortably.

After finishing runner up in the NO WAY IN HELL extream enduro a few weeks ago on the Honda Montesa 4tr, I have been back into training full on with the Beta 300 2 stroke, my choice of weapon once again for the 2012 trials season along with my Minder Nick Ball, who will again be assisting me throughout the year in a coaching role as well as full time at events.

On Saturday it was a great chance to put all the techniques into play that we have been working hard on, although the sections were set on the easier side to accommodate some of the newer riders into the grade it was still a good chance to use these techniques in an actual event.

Most of the sections were on rocks however Sundays event was completely different with slippery rivers and tree covered sections, good to have a bit of variety and again came out on top with a nice lead over the day which can be difficult at times with a very low scoring event.

I’m happy with where I’m at with the level of riding and feel I’m pushing in the right direction for the World championship round held inAustraliain May. At this stage all my focus is going into this event, I’m really looking forward to riding in a WTC so close to home along with many New Zealanders that are going to watch.

Big thanks to my sponsors;

Spectro Oils,
DID,
The Gadget guys,
Mitchelin,
TCX,
Renthal,
Kapiti Beta motorcycles,
Team Kaos.
Hutt boyz choppers,
Hynds.

Kind regards,

Jake Whitaker

“Photo courtesy Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com”

I hadn’t done anything like this before so I had no idea what to expect, we camped on site and arrived Friday evening in time to watch a round of the new Zealand enduro series on Saturday which me and Georgina both really enjoyed watching.

Sunday was the prologue to decide the starting order of the main event on Monday, it was a short lap with a few tight technical bits in it and a few river crossings. It was my first experience of riding a trials bike full noise for half an hour straight, a lot of fun but also a completely different type of fitness to the normal stop and start trials Routine. I actually manage to win this part of the event much to my surprise, I had know idea that most of the riders I was passing I was laping.
So after winning Sundays prologue this meant I was the first rider away on the first loop of approx 30km, the lap was well marked with arrows however it wasn’t long before a couple of the enduro boys caught up on the open farm land hills, I couldn’t match the two guys in front on the first lap as it was really open and the trials bike was at a real disadvantage, however after a short break and a fuel stop soon into the second lap things started to toughen up, this is where the trials bike came out to play and I was able to gain some time on the bigger bikes. I came in right behind the leader of the event Mitchell Nield and we set off together on the last lap knowing that the laps were getting progressively harder and that this one was going to be the hardest, I stuck with Mitchell for the first 15 mins or so before he pulled away on the open terrain, about an hour into the lap I arrived to amassive down hill that made any trials section here in nz look like a walk in the park, I it was so step in one part I just had to let the bike go and hope it stopped at the tree I was aiming it for, after about a 30 minute decent I still had about 20 minutes to go to the finish, near the finish I coaught up to Mitchell on a steep down hill on loose gravel and was right on his wheel however once at the bottom the course opened right up along a river and the trials bike was no match for the gas gas 300 enduro bike. I finished my first ever extreme enduro in second place covered in mud and very sore and tired but I had a lot of fun along the way and look forward to another event like this.

Jake

17/12/2011

Hi All,

Well I have had a full on past week or two and a lot of fun along the way. At this point in time i’m in Beijing China after Just breaking my World record again (fastest time over 21 oil drums ). My orginal record stood at 11.37 seconds and yesterday I got it down to 10.993, However the conditions were extreamly testing as the weather here at the moment is extreamly cold sitting at minus 9 degrees most days. On top of not being able to feel my fingers infact the majority of my body the steel drums were quit slippery with being so cold so this made it very difficult.

A few weeks ago I was called by a big Tv Company over here, They are currently running a Guiness world record show and wanted me over here to attempt my own record again so the next day after returning from holiday in Fiji we were on our way here, going from 35 degrees to minus 9 degrees is a big shock to the system. We have a couple more days left here to have a look around Beijing then back home in time for Christmas. I will add photos as soon as i get home.

Cheers,

Jake