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The field at the final round of the 2023 AMA IRC Tire EnduroCross Series presented by Progressive in Reno, Nevada, on November 18, was the most stacked it has been in years with KLIM motorcycle athletes and ambassadors showing off the durability and performance of their XC Lite gear on an intense track against some of the world's fastest racers.

The penultimate round of the 2023 AMA IRC Tire EnduroCross Series presented by Progressive returned to Redmond, Oregon, on November 11 for KLIM motorcycle athletes and ambassadors to find some season-best finishes.

The six-round 2023 AMA IRC Tire EnduroCross Series presented by Progressive stopped in Idaho Falls, Idaho, for a mid-season double-header on October 27 and 28 where both KLIM motorcycle and snow athletes put KLIM off-road motorcycle gear out front in multiple classes in front of a sold-out crowd.

At the second stop of the six-round 2023 AMA IRC Tire EnduroCross Series presented by Progressive in Prescott Valley, Arizona, on October 21, KLIM athlete and US Hard Enduro Media Specialist, Max Gerston, lined up in the EX Pro class and said he had fun dicing it up, going 8-10-8 for 9th overall.

Three KLIM motorcycle athletes lined up in the EX Pro class at opening night of the six-round 2023 AMA IRC Tire EnduroCross Series presented by Progressive in Everett, Washington, on October 7, and two landed inside the top 10 in a stacked class of the world's top EnduroCross talent.

In Selma, Iowa, for the Coyote Classic and Round 10 of the Iowa Enduro Riders Association Hare Scramble series on September 24, KLIM athlete Benjamin Ward finished second overall out of seven in the AA class.

At the Donner Ski Ranch in Norden, California, on September 16 & 17 for the season finale of the 2023 AMA IRC US Hard Enduro Series presented by KLIM, Factory Beta’s Danny Lewis finished eighth out of 13 Pros after a sixth-place start, completing 14 checks in 4:13:22.

Imagine riding a nearly 100-year-old, 500cc single cylinder motorcycle for eight to 10 hours a day, not topping speeds above 45 miles an hour, with a partner in your sidecar, over the roughest backroads and byways in America, avoiding freeways and state highways, across the Appalachians, the Rockies and the desert, to end up in Oceanside, California, over 3,000 miles and 17 days later.

Factory Beta's Danny Lewis returned to racing at Tennessee's Trials Training Center for the 2023 Red Bull Tennessee Knockout and Round 10 of the 2023 AMA IRC US Hard Enduro Series presented by KLIM on August 18-20, and after a few months off, finished 17 out of 20 Pros who qualified for Sunday’s “Final Knockout” Main Event.

Writer’s note: Not only does KLIM athlete, Brock Buttars, live in KLIM gear – long regarded as the industry’s snowbike leader who helped develop the world's first snowbike-specific kit – he’s also a Timbersled ambassador, KLIM Motorcycle test rider, photo shoot model and international hard enduro racer with a flourishing suspension shop and four racers under one roof, each with at least one of their own motorcycles.

Writer’s note: I knew just pulling into Kellogg, Idaho for the Silver Kings Hard Enduro and Round 9 of the AMA IRC U.S. Hard Enduro Premier Championship, Presented by KLIM, on June 23 & 24, that it was going to be legendary.

Some spectacularly remote corners of the earth remain essentially untouched – Fitsum Creek, Indian Ridge, Phoebe Meadows – just to name a few trails along the South Fork of the Salmon River near Yellow Pine, Idaho – population 32. It’s almost like going back in time with no cell service or electricity and far away from the comforts of everyday society.

At Round 8 of the AMA GNCC in Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, on June 4, Florida’s Jesse Ansley finished 11th in the XC2 250 Pro class and 22nd overall out in the six-lap, 3-hour and 13-minute race.

Round 8 of the 2023 AMA IRC US Hard Enduro Series presented by KLIM kicked off with the Keystone Challenge double-header: Tough Like RORR in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania on May 28, and the following day, less than an hour down the road, the Shotgun Hard Scramble in Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania.

At the first KLIM Junior Camp in Zlatibor, Serbia, leading into Round One of the FIM Hard Enduro Junior World Championship supported by KLIM, long-time KLIM athlete and renowned Hard Enduro veteran Paul Bolton stepped up to tutor Junior class competitors and help prepare competitors of the FIM Hard Enduro Junior World Championship supported by KLIM for the start of the new season.

You’re never too old to learn how to ride a motorcycle, to take a leap of faith and try something new.

(Editor’s note: In an effort to provide some insight into the ever-popular Google search: “How to get a job in powersports,” and with college graduation right around the corner, this 20-minute read on KLIM’s senior motorcycle designer making a name for herself in the fast-paced motorcycle industry shows what success can look like behind-the-scenes. Settle in.)

Nevada’s Zane Roberts stood on the third step of the Pro podium at the Cherry Creek AMA National Hare and Hound in Jericho, Utah on May 13, 2023 – finishing the 83-mile race in just under two-and-a-half hours – his fifth-straight race weekend in a row.