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DIRTCOMP 27 ARRIVES IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

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Written by Randall Kilner |

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The final edition of Dirtcomp for 2011 hits the newsagents shelves this week just in time for some offroad racing and ATV entertainment over the Christmas break. Edition 27 is once again a gigantic 115+ page magazine packed with everything offroad and ATV, including extensive coverage of the Australasian Safari and ATV Nationals at Coolum. This edition also features coverage of the Vic and SA Titles along with the Hyden Ironman from the wheat fields of WA. Pete Wilhelms and Randall Kilner also catch up with enduro specialist Paul Smith and take a close look at his Honda TRX700XX and have a chat about his exciting plans for the next 12 months. While our tech article checks out Shockie Pressures and how to set them on your ATV.

Our coverage of offroading in the dirt also includes comprehensive coverage of the Taupo 1000 in New Zealand, the Teagle Excavations ARB Pines Enduro, the Albins Goondiwindi 400 and many more major state events. There is also a centre spread poster featuring the 2011 AORC Champs, Dave Fellows and Mark Bergamin, along with the eight AORC Class winners. Our team also peels the layers off Anthony Kuhn's Micklefab built Tundra TT and check out Dave Cameron's Supercharged V8 GQ Patrol. Plus we bring you a glimpse of Australia's only Auto entry in the 2012 Dakar, Geoff Olholm's BMW powered 4WD.

We also have the breaking news on the SXS/UTV Class that will fill the Class 6 void, an update on the homologation of the Aussie Offroad Kart Chassis and the new Safari Challenge Class.

For those still looking for a Christmas gift it's not too late to organise a Dirtcomp Magazine subscription - with a Gift Certificate available on request. Just call (07) 3899 6637 or visit our website www.dirtcomp.com.au to subscribe online. All 6 & 12 edition Dirtcomp subscriptions up until December 31st will also go in the draw to win a set of Lightforce Genesis HID Lights, valued at $1152.

Randall

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Dirt Comp Magazine Edition 26 Released

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The biggest edition of Dirtcomp Magazine ever produced is out now, featuring the widest variety of events we have ever jammed into one ediiton. With all the ATV and Offroad Racing action from the Finke Desert Race, Rockstar MX Nationals, Condo, Flinders 450, Outback 4x4 Extreme, Cliffhanger and much more all sandwiched between the glossy covers. On top of the race reports we catch up with CanAm X-Team rider Chad McKay, check out Ben Saunders immaculate 100 Series winch truck and Jason Pearce's Condo conquering Isuzu. Pete Wilhelms also takes a look at the essentials in preparing a Quad for the Finke Desert Race and walks us through the different options for hitting the race track in a SXS. The DC Gallery is back by popular demand and the double page spread featuring Greg Gartners forward flip at the Flinders 450 is a must see for all dirt sports fans. We have also launched our new [rokdownload menuitem="106" downloaditem="41" direct_download="true"]Lightforce Subscription Promotion[/rokdownload], with all 6 and 12 Edition subscriptions going in the draw to win a pair of Lightforce Genesis HID's! Visit www.dirtcomp.com.au for more information.

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New Quad Club for NSW

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There's a new Quad club on the horizon for NSW situated in Port Stephens. Wade Thomas, who is the founder of the Marlin Quad Racing Club states "After living for a year in WA, I arrived home in Port Stephens with ATV fluid in my veins and with a playground like Stockton Beach and Dunes at my door step I decided to get serious about Quading, after hitting the internet I found that NSW was seriously behind the 8 ball for ATV orientated clubs and events, so I have taken up the fight on behalf of the NSW riders and am currently in the process of forming a club, MARLIN QUAD RACING CLUB NSW the club will cater for the social, and family style riders with weekend trips and ride days along with the serious side of things we will have a national race team to take on the interstate competition and hopefully bring some of the big racers to NSW." While thier web site is currently under construction there is a [rokdownload menuitem="106" downloaditem="40" direct_download="true"]downloadable membership form[/rokdownload] or Wade can be contaced via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone on 02 40332505

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Talent from Tassie

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Our most southern state has not managed to produce much in the way of motocross talent in the last few years, but that has changed now with the Sheridan brothers Clinton and Troy having joined the Can Am Xteam and heading over to the mainland for the recent SA and VIC Titles MX events. Better known as enduro riders that occasionally do a few grass track MX events the boys have shown great adaptability in coming over here and getting on some proper MX tracks, Clinton not having ever jumped a quad before coming over to practise for the SA titles. Despite this the boy have been able to post some credible results with Clint takeing out the Clubman class at both te SA and Vics whilt liitle brother Troy took out the Open Class at the SA Titles and rode well to a respectable 5th place in the Vic Titles Pro Class against the likes of his Xteam team mates Jake and Mitch Van Vliet. The brothers are next planning to head to Coolum in a few weeks for the MX Nats to see how they fair on the national stage.

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Ben Wade at the Vic Titles

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A little animated sequence of Intermediate rider Ben Wade leaving the start gate at Horsham.

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Dirt Comp Magazine get ATV'ed

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Written by Pete Wilhelms |

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A couple of months ago I was approached by Randall Kilner, the Editor of Dirt Comp magazine, to see if I could maybe do a write up about the Thumb Pump ATV Festival for his magazine. UTV driver and owner of the thesxssite.com Gavin Greaves had made the suggestion to Randall and with the UTV class being run at this years event it made sense for this kind of offroad motorsport mag to pick up a story on some SxS racing but when Randall mentioned that he might like to run some more ATV content we jumped at the opportunity to get involved in bringing quads back into the mainstream print media in Australia. The next edition (E25) is due out on Monday the 11th of July and will contain various articles from both myself and Mick on ATV events and features.

Already Randall and I have been planning the ATV content for the next issue so it looks like it is full steam ahead to keep ATV's in print, hopfully with some industry support build up over the next few issues. With this collaboration of web and print media from different sources we will likley genereate some cross over content that ties together, like articles in the mag that refer to a video we may have done on a similar topic on the site. Dirt Comp will also be making and effort to cover as many major ATV events as possible in the future including MX, Enduros and Desert Racing and what ever else we may be able to get to.

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