Extreme off-road tests a riders’ skill and their machines’ capabilities over the most challenging terrain each venue has to offer, including agonizing hill climbs, endless rock fields and log crossings. The format is wide open for host organizations to include as many challenges at riders as possible. Extreme off-road can feature Le Mans starts, timed sections, GPS navigation, course changes and more.
Grand Championships
One of the toughest and most prestigious extreme off-road events in the nation serves as the AMA Extreme Off-Road Grand Championship.
2021 Kenda AMA Tennessee Knockout Extreme Enduro
Part of the 2021 FIM Hard Enduro World Championship, the event features a multi-round “knockout” format. Riders race against the clock in some rounds and compete head-to-head in others. The course varies in length in each round and covers extremely difficult terrain. The TKO includes two amateur class competitions on Saturday, with the top 25 finishers earning the opportunity to compete in the pro class races on Sunday. Learn more at tennesseeknockoutenduro.com.
Aug. 13-15: Sequatchie, Tenn.: Tennessee Knockout Extreme Enduro – Trials Training Center
2021 National EnduroCross Championship
This is a six-race series organized by Cycle City Promotions. The events are moto-based, with heats and mains. The man-made tracks feature obstacles, including logs, rocks and water crossings, along with more extreme obstacles, such as K-rails and tractor tires. The courses vary in length in each round and cover extremely difficult terrain. Riders race head-to-head for a chance to win an AMA National Championship at the end of the season. EnduroCross is a one-day program featuring classes for Pros, Amateurs, Women and 35+ vets.
Schedule TBD
2020 AMA EnduroCross National Championship Supplemental Regulations (Oct. 2020)
- EnduroCross Competition Bulletin (updated Dec. 2020)
Regional Championships
Starting in 2021, there will be 10 Extreme Off-Road events divided into two regional championships, East and West, with the RevLImiter Extreme acting as the East versus West Shootout. Each round is hosted by the region’s premier clubs and promoters and also will act as qualifiers to the AMA Extreme Off-Road Grand Championship, the Tennessee Knockout.
Kenda AMA Extreme Championship
2021 AMA East Extreme Off-Road Regional Championship Schedule
April 10-11: Bridgeport, Texas: RevLimiter Extreme Enduro, MotoKolors facebook.com/MotoKolors (East versus West)
May 2: Spragueville, Iowa: Iowan Hard Enduro, iowanhardenduro.com
May 29-30: Marquette, Mich.: Mad Moose Hard Enduro, UP Sand Stormers upsandstormers.com
July 3-4: Tamaqua, Pa.: Tough Like RORR, Reading Off-Road Riders rorr.org
July 17-18: Little Hocking, Ohio: Bad Medicine @ Fallen Timbers, wildwoodlakeraceway.com
Aug. 7-8: Taylorsville, N.C.: Battle of the Goats Extreme Enduro, bmmspark.com
2021 AMA West Extreme Off-Road Regional Championship Schedule
March 21: Page, Ariz.: Grinding Stone Hard Enduro, Rock Stars MC rockstarsmc.com
April 10-11: Bridgeport, Texas: RevLimiter Extreme Enduro, MotoKolors facebook.com/MotoKolors (East versus West)
May 15-16: San Bernardino, Calif.: Last Dog Standing, Prairie Dogs MC facebook.com/prairiedogsmc73
June 12-13: Donner, Calif.: Donner Hard Enduro, Garrahan Off-Road Training garrahanoffroadtraining.com
June 19-20: Kellogg, Idaho: Silver Mountain Xtreme, Stix and Stones LLC stixandstonesoffroad.com
State Championships
2020 AMA Extreme Off-Road State Championship Schedule
Feb. 8: Lucerne Valley, Calif.: King of the Motos, ultra4racing.com/race/54 Results
2021 AMA Amateur Competition Rulebook
Click here for the 2021 AMA Competition Rulebook
- Competition Bulletin (Dec. 2020)