Raised on my family property at Wallumbilla (halfway between Pickinjinnie and Armoo), and learnt to ride, generally fooling around after school and mustering. 

My first competition ride was at a local sports day, riding my mighty Honda Z50 and winning the keyhole race outright.  My first 'real' race was at Emerald where I raced my old XR250 at a club motocross while at Ag College.  After College, I joined the Roma Motorcycle Club and started racing Club motocross and enduro events.  I spent a year racing the Sunstate Motocross Series, but didn't really enjoy motocross, so started concentrating on the Queensland Two Day Enduro Series, and the Honda Pony Express Series with my old pal Dan (Brown) Ey.  I got to see a lot of the country, being one of those "tough buggers" from the Queensland team  that no-one had ever heard of, but who showed up at the National Series and stuck it to everyone.  Eventually a mortgage got in the way, and I got sick of being belted up by Eucalyptus Interruptis, so gave it away. 

Meanwhile I had bought an R1 and spent a fair few of my weekends traveling to the Gold Coast to Darlington Park, to Brisbane to Lakeside, and to Warwick to track days.  I happened to be in Toowoomba one weekend and heard that a Motard event was happening at Helidon, so took a quick trip down the range for a look and got hooked. 

Showed up for my first Motard race on the old black beast (KTM380) on a second-hand set of Harley tyres that one of the tyre suppliers in Roma had lying around, and the rest as they say is history. 

After a couple of race seasons, and using some of my old enduro contacts, I got a good deal on my KTM SMR525, which gave me a good couple of racing years. 

Towards the end of 2007, Rising Sun Honda in Townsville helped me out with a 2008 CRF450 (with a 480 kit so I could finish the race season in the S1 Class), and after ten years on KTMs, it took me about five minutes get in tune with the Honda.  And the story continues..........................   

(Wallumbilla is actually just east of Roma.)

CAREER LOWLIGHTS:

Breaking my leg the week before the final round of the 2005 Australian Supermoto Championships, in which I was coming third, and two weeks before the final round of the Queensland State Supermoto Championships which I was leading.  I took a detour to Brisbane on the way to Newcastle and had an electric start fitted to my bike, cut my cast off my leg the night before the race, cut my boot open so I could lever my foot in with tyre levers and tape it all together again, and rode the final round of the Australian Titles, maintaining my third position for the Series.  Unfortunately, sports-legal painkillers just weren't doing the job for me, so I had to pull out of the Queensland Championships.

Traveling to Darwin for the 2007 TERRA Challenge and having my bike lunch itself in practice - but thanks to the Whitsunday boys I still got to race the Supermotard event.

Missing my fuel stop on the return leg of the Finke Desert Race and running out of fuel a couple of kilometres from the finish line, and while I was pushing my bike, watching other bikes in my class pass me.