Australia has won the Nations Trophy at the 2009 FIM Junior World Motocross Championship, in Taupo New Zealand, ahead of Italy and New Zealand.

Jay Wilson became the 85cc World Championship and Tye Simmonds finished 2nd in the 125cc World Championship.

There's hardly anywhere to ride legally in NSW.

Land developers, policy exclusion, clowns and noise has resulted in closure of nearly all available areas.

Now there are Environmental problems as riders push into areas they would not have used previously.

Erosion from new track creation, grooving of water diversion banks (roll-overs), creek bank destruction and spreading of weeds and diseases from unwashed machines are all problems now.

Federal Chamber of Automotive Industry Top 10 selling motorcycles.

1. Kawasaki 250 Ninja
2. Honda CT110
3. Suzuki DR-Z400E
4. Yamaha WR450F
5. Honda CRF250R
6. Honda CRF450R
7. Honda CRF230F
8. Yamaha PW50
9. Yamaha YZ250F
10. Yamaha YZF-R1

The following resources have been produced by the Forest Users Education Liaison project, local councils etc. Feel free to use the FUEL resources and/or use the other resources as inspiration for creating similar resources for your local area, in conjunction with your local riding community.

To get copies of the FUEL (Forest Users Education Liaison) project cartoons such as the one below please contact the Motorcycle Council

An example of signage to discourage illegal riding in public reserves (from Penrith City Council):

A hunter region FUEL project group produced a brochure to discourage illegal riding and promote legal riding locations in the region. The brochure can be downloaded as a PDF file from the bottom of this page.

To best view the brochure you will need Adobe Reader 9 or later. To download the latest version of Adobe Reader click here

Have you got resources that you would be happy for other land mangers to use, or draw inspiration from? Send us an email at the Motorcycle Council