Chris Birch confirmed for Journey Bike Rider Competition…

The Journey Bike Rider Competition has introduced that the famend enduro rider Chris Birch can be attending the 2023 occasion. 

Flying in from his native New Zealand, Chris Birch – two-time Pink Bull Romaniacs winner and three-time Roof of Africa winner, amongst different achievements – can be making his Journey Bike Rider Competition (ABR) debut at this 12 months’s occasion, the place he’ll make a demo experience and communicate on-stage. 

Birch’s demo experience will happen within the Journey Zone are of ABR, whereas he’ll inform “anecdotes from his illustrious driving profession,” an ABR press launch reads, on the Bridgestone Campfire Stage.

Commenting on the announcement, Chris Birch mentioned: “I’m excited to be on the ABR Competition this 12 months. It seems to be like a superb time on motorbikes and I’m trying ahead to being there. I’ll be doing a little driving demos and a little bit of a chat. However primarily, I’ll be there to hang around, meet as many individuals as attainable and luxuriate in some good occasions on bikes. I’m very a lot trying ahead to it.”

Bryn Davies, Head of Advertising and marketing at ABR Competition, added: “Ever since I noticed Chris Birch making a KTM 1190 Journey appear to be a trials bike on YouTube, I needed to see him dwell.

“Now, with the assistance of Kriega (for whom Birch is an envoy), we’re capable of present his jaw-dropping expertise to everybody on the ABR Competition. With Chris flying over from New Zealand for the occasion, it actually reveals the draw the ABR Competition has, and guests are in for an actual deal with with the rider shows we’ve deliberate. This 12 months’s pageant can be one to recollect for positive.”

Birch will be a part of a complete host of off-roading expertise at ABR 2023, together with Elspeth Beard, Ted Simon, Nick Sanders, Steph Jeavons, Lyndon Poskitt and Dylan Wickrama.