Red Bull Tyne Ride returns to Newcastle Quayside
Billy Bolt is a professional Red Bull dirt bike racer and tells us how it feels to be taking part in his home region
A Newcastle professional dirt bike racer says he is excited to be returning to the region for a second time to take part in the Red Bull Tyne Ride.
The event hopes to bring thousands of people into the city to watch riders take on the course.
Billy Bolt, Red Bull athlete from Wallsend, said: "To be here and bring twenty of my friends that I'm used to racing all over the world here.
"Then to have a dirt bike track and be racing on the main road down on the Quayside, the river there, the bridges in the background, it's genuinely unbelievable.
"It's quite a unique event.
"It's a dirt bike race in the middle of the city, which that alone is pretty rare.
"Then the track itself is also quite a mixture of different elements of motorcycle racing, dirt bike racing and then something other action sports."
The collaboration between Red Bull and five-time FIM Super Enduro champion and Red Bull athlete, Billy Bolt, Red Bull Tyne Ride is the ultimate test of skill, speed, and endurance.
This year’s rider line-up includes some of the biggest names in Enduro racing, including one of the most successful riders of all time, Mani Lettenbichler.
The KTM rider recently claimed his fourth successive Red Bull Erzbergrodeo title, and his sixth consecutive victory at Red Bull Romaniacs.
Elsewhere, reigning Tyne Ride champion, Jonny Walker, returns to Newcastle this time as a Triumph rider, keen to defend his crown following his previous win.
New to this year’s lineup, British riders Rosie Rowett and Chloe Richardson are set to become the first female riders to take on the challenge.
Rowett originally hails from Sheffield and has been riding from an early age, with a career that’s seen her finish third in the 2024 FIM Women’s Enduro Championship, and more recently winning her debut race at the Expotrade FIM Women’s Enduro World Championship earlier in August.
Looking ahead to the competition, Rosie said: “I’m really excited to be involved in Tyne Ride and the opportunity for female riders to get involved in a Red Bull event. The course looks hard! But I can’t wait to give it a go and challenge myself.”
Swedish Rider Eddie Karlsson will also return to Quayside, riding for Stark. Karlsson wowed the crowds in Newcastle at the 2024 Red Bull Tyne Ride with his all-electric bike, this year powering him to 5th in the overall standings at the FIM SuperEnduro World Championship 2025.
Red Bull Tyne Ride brings together some of the world’s best riders in a series of head-to-head competitions, with 14 pros and 10 wildcards competing to win over three rounds, before the final head-to-head decider.
The course stretches the length of Newcastle Quayside, complete with brutal technical challenges such as the boulder garden, log matrix, and Igloo Wall Ride turning point.
Riders compete over three runs each round before the head-to-head decider.