Cody Webb makes a bit of history winning the Moab Hard Enduro aboard the Rocky Mountain ATV Yamaha YZ250X to make it four different winners in the 2025 Bullet Proof Designs US Hard Enduro Series, Presented by IRC Tires.

The Moab Hard Enduro at Area BFE is only in its second year, but has quickly become one of the most popular races for the US Hard Enduro series on the West Coast.

Led by USHE athletes Mesa Lange and Joe Nemeth, and only 15 minutes south of the off-road mecca of Moab, Utah, this venue offers challenging terrain for all levels of hard enduro racers.

The course consists of sandstone slabs, tricky singletrack, relentless creek beds, and canyon boulder fields that are considered some of the toughest 4x4 trails in the United States.

Hart back in it to win it

After a one-round absence, 4-times USHE Champion Trystan Hart returned to face a stacked field including round three winner, Rockstar Husqvarna’s Ryder LeBlond coming off his first USHE win at the Grinding Stone Hard Enduro, Cody Webb using his knowledge of Area BFE to his advantage after winning this event last year, Sherco USA’s Will Riordan and IRC Beta’s James Flynn who have been pushing up front all season.

Prologue win for Riordan

Day one’s a six-mile Prologue race set the row positions for the main race on Saturday which served as an introduction to the unique high desert terrain for the racers, and also gave some extra riding time to the Amateur racers.

Will Riordan won the Prologue, finishing the course in 23 minutes. The race had a three-hour time limit, which some Amateurs used the entire duration of for the first day of racing. After the Prologue, they hosted a kid’s E-Bike race with mini enduro obstacles and Cody Webb announcing. The kids had a blast and gave the future generation some well-deserved limelight!

First official W for Cody in Shootout

After the E-Bike race, the Moab Hard Enduro invited the top-20 Prologue finishers to race a cash paying Shootout at their main event area, which is like a natural terrain skatepark for hard enduro.

Four groups of five riders battled it out in front of the cheering spectators, going up big splatters and traversing up and down the sandstone course. Ultimately, it was Cody Webb who won the final race of the Shootout, which gave him starting row priority for Saturday’s main race.

The main event consisted a three-lap race within a six-hour time limit, with multiple splits throughout the course and more difficult sections being added on laps two and three.

The green flag dropped, and the rows were off at minute intervals and the six riders up front were only 20 seconds apart through the first check, which laid the framework for a really tight race ahead.

After lap one, Hart was leading Riordan and Webb by 30 seconds. Lap two brought more excitement and changes in the lead, as Amateurs were working their way through their first lap, creating some lapped traffic for the lead pack.

At the end of the second lap, the racers needed to enter Black Flag, a treacherous canyon that added a mile of steep hills and big boulder canyons. The lead was swapped multiple times, with Webb coming into his third lap only six seconds ahead of Hart.

The lead was swapped a couple of more times on the third lap, with Webb and Hart battling back and forth through even more traffic.

Black Flag opened up a last lap gate that took racers up the steepest and most treacherous section of the course on this final lap. 

Webb entered it with a 90 second lead on Hart, but Hart made a push and was right behind Webb at the final rock slab. Webb held his lead through the finish to win the Moab Hard Enduro, only seven seconds ahead of Hart. Will Riordan finished in third, 10 minutes behind the leaders.

Watch Cody’s onboard of the main race here: Cody Webb onboard battle for the win at Moab US Hard Enduro 2025

This was Cody Webb’s first win of the 2025 US Hard Enduro season, and also Yamaha and IRC Tire’s first USHE Premier Championship victory as partners of Webb. Since December, Webb and his team have built up an impressive YZ250X program, after hundreds of hours of development and testing. The week prior, Webb put in long hours and rebuilt several critical components under his own tent, which made his victory that much sweeter after the long hours working on his own fleet.

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Moab Hard Enduro Results (top 30):

Forsley wins again in Pro Women’s class

Louise Forsley won the Pro Women’s class, with Pebs Madolora and Addy Albrecht rounding off the podium. There were over a dozen women racing the Moab Hard Enduro, with IRC Tire donating a Gekkota tire to each female in the Amateur Women’s class.

In the Amateur ranks, Niko Piazza won the A class, with Coran Calvert and Maverik Thaxton rounding off the Amateur podium.

The Amateurs seemed to have a great experience on this course, with most leaving exhausted and many smiles across the board.

Mesa Lange and Joe Nemeth put on another great event at Area BFE, and really did a great job bringing the hard enduro community together.

The next USHE Premier Championship race will go back to the East Coast, for the Battle of the Goats at the Brushy Mountain Motorsports Park in North Carolina on April 26-27.

For full results: http://www.moto-tally.com/USHE/Results.aspx

More information: www.ushardenduro.com

Photo Credit:  Ryan McCasland and Owen Gorsuch