THE WEEKLY FEED: BILLY BOLT DESTROYS SUPER ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP

BLAST FROM THE PAST

Suzuki’s Off-road race manager Charles Halcomb navigating a special test at the 1988 Idaho City ISDE Qualifier. Charles was mounted on a modified RM250, which was the test bed for soon to be announced Suzuki RMX250. Charles raced moto in the late 70s with success, went into off-road and won four ISDE Gold Medals along with strong results in the Baja 1000 and Nevada Rally.

NEWS

BILLY BOLT CROWNED 2022 SUPER ENDURO WORLD CHAMPION

HUSQVARNA FACTORY RACING’S SUPERENDURO WORLD CHAMPION SIGNS OFF ON A PERFECT SEASON WITH FIFTH OVERALL WIN OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP

Drawing his participation in the 2022 FIM SuperEnduro World Championship to a close at round five in Germany, Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Billy Bolt has delivered another dominant display of riding, clinching the overall win in Riesa. Having secured the world title last night at the same venue, Bolt’s victory ensured a clean sweep of podium results across the five rounds.

Jonny Walker-“Second place on the night and second place in the championship, I’m honestly so happy for what we have achieved. I want to say a massive thanks to Marc Robert, my mechanic. He’s put lots of hours in to make this happen. Also thank you to my amazing sponsors, I really couldn’t do it with put them.”

Entering the final round of the championship tied on points for second, Colton Haaker had some small mistakes proving costly and having him finish third overall for the series.

Final Championship Standings
1. Billy Bolt (Husqvarna) 321pts; 2. Jonny Walker (Beta) 232pts; 3. Colton Haaker (Husqvarna) 229pts; 4. Diogo Vieira (GAS GAS) 147pts; 5. Tim Apolle (Beta) 141pts

SOCIAL SCRATCHING

The dirt bike world has always been blessed with serious bad asses.

VIDEO JUKEBOX

BILLY BOLT BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE FINAL SUPER ENDURO ROUND

GEAR BAG

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WOLF: BACK IN THE DAY

This is the 1988 Michigan ISDE Qualifier and I’m futzing with the rear brakes on my RM250. It was still early times for disc brake technology and in long off-road events where you spent a lot of time dragging the brake, they would overheat, burn the brake fluid and you’d lose the pedal. At least once a day we would provide a transfusion to replace the tainted fluid for new stuff. It was a critical bit of maintenance if you wanted to be aggressive all day long.