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Waters Tops Australia
(Gympie) MX National
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odd Waters (Husqvarna)
took the overall win in round
six of the 2019 Australian Moto-
cross Championship in Gympie,
Australia, June 23. Kirk Gibbs
(Yamaha) and Brett Metcalfe
(Honda) made up the rest of the
MX1 podium.
Hayden Mellross (KTM) and
Luke Clout (Yamaha) rounded out
the top five.
Waters edged out Metcalfe
for the win in the first moto, with
Gibbs finishing a distant third.
Clout crossed the finish line right
behind Gibbs in fourth.
Mellross finished all alone in fifth.
The second moto was a thrill-
ing one with the top four riders
all crossing the finish line within
a four-second gap. This time,
however, it was Gibbs taking the
narrow win over Waters, followed
by Mellross and Metcalfe. Jesse
Dobson finished a distant fifth.
In the 2019 Championship, Wa-
ters leads Clout by three points
with Mellross another two points
back in third. Metcalfe is seventh
in the championship.
In MX2, Jay Wilson was the
overall winner ahead of Wilson
Todd, Nathan Crawford, Aaron
Tanti and Kyle Webster.
Todd (344 points) leads the
MX2 Championship over Webster
(320) and Wilson (319). CN
(L-R) Kirk Gibbs,
Todd Waters and
Brett Metcalfe made
up the top three at
the Gympie round of
the 2019 Australia
Motocross National
Championship.
Eddie Lawson, Giant Bicycles Team Up
G
iant Bicycle USA recently collaborated with
four-time motorcycle Grand Prix World Cham-
pion Eddie Lawson for a video project featuring a
Giant E-bike. A lifelong mountain bike rider, Lawson
climbed aboard a Giant Trance E+ 1 Pro and was
immediately impressed.
"A friend of mine had one, and he let me try it,
and I was hooked. I had to have one," said Lawson
who rides daily in the rugged desert terrain in Ari-
zona where he lives. "It used to be I'd get up in the
morning and say, 'I should go train on my mountain
bike.' Now I get up and can't wait to go for a ride.
That's the difference."
The Trance E+ 1 Pro is a full suspension E-moun-
tain bike that offers a whole new way to tackle tech-
nical singletrack trails. The SyncDrive Pro motor
gives the Trance E+ Pro rider a massive 80Nm of
torque and 360% of tuneable support. That means
the rider can dial his E-bike with full pedal assist
power or tune it less aggressively.
"Eddie is the best athlete ambassador E-biking
can have," said John "JT" Thompson, general
manager of Giant Bicycle USA. "He knows superior
technology and craftsmanship, and he certainly
knows how to put a two-wheeled machine to the
test. Eddie is the perfect rider to help spread the joy
of E-bikes."
"The great thing about E-bikes is you can work as
hard or as easy as you want," Lawson said. "An E-
bike is a great training tool, and it's also a lot of fun."
You can watch the video by clicker here. CN
Former World
Champion Eddie
Lawson promotes
Giant E-bike.
