Member Since: 2006
Treasurer Since: 2008
Left: Bitten by the sidecar bug Middle: Braving the road in Bali at 18 Right: First big road bike 1984 GSX750
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Race Numbers
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current: 51 None prior |
| Current grade you usually race (eg: A, B, C, Over 55, Sidecars) | A grade |
| Year you were born | 1964 |
| What type of job/industry have you been in most of your life | Finance |
| Age you started riding | First ride at about 9yrs of age on a 50cc mini bike that you started like a lawn mower (rip cord). Then as a teenager got to ride spasmodically on friends bikes without my parents knowing – they would not let me have my own bike, had no idea I was out riding & were dead against them. When I was 18 & brought my first bike home my father would not talk to me for a couple of weeks, and threatened to kick me out of home if I kept the bike. As a normal teenager I just ignored him. 2 bikes later & he gave me $3,000 to go towards my 1st big road bike – A 1984 GSX 750 (see photo). I assume he came to the conclusion I was still alive & was not going to stop riding so he had to come around & accept bikes. |
| Years of Competitive Racing | Only competitive racing I have done is with VMXWA – joined 2006, so almost 5 years now. |
| Motor Cycle Club/s you’ve been a Member of | Road bike – Open Road Motor Cycle Touring Club (1999 to 2008 – Day rides & over night trips on road bikes) |
| First bike/s you rode | 50 cc mini bike (no idea of model age – was a hire bike. You paid $2 to ride around a paddock for 20min – no helmet no safety gear) / DT 100 / / DT 175 / IT 175 – somewhere between 1977 – 1980 – friends bikes. Lived in Kwinana with a lot of bush around. Just pushed them across the road from my friends house into the Bush and was away. Did this until I was 19 when I bought my first road bike. Sold that when I was 22yrs old (1986) , and did not ride a bike again until 1997 – GSX 750 again (1994 model), and have had a road bike since then as well as VMX bikes since 2006. |
| Favourite bike/s you’ve had | ZZR 1100 – 1999 model. |
| Your current bike/s | Yamaha FJR 1300 – 2005 model, Honda 250 Elsinore CR 74 model, CZ 1969 360 side pipe, XS 650 Johnson – Yamaha side car – approx 1972 / 73 model. |
| Your Motocross Highlights | Attending the Classic Nationals from 2006 (club held) / 2007 – Coffs harbour, 2008 – Tasi, 2009 – Conindale Qld. great to meet all different people as well as being a part of a large group from WA
Being able to get out in the Bush as a young teenager with my mates. |
| Most memorable (funny or painful) Motocross accident | Flipping my side car at Dyback ridge 2009 – quite spectacular for the spectators / painful & costly for me. |
| Your Motocross Hero (past or present) | None – was more road bike (Doohan / Rainy / Gardener), until joining VMX – Now probably all the guy’s in 55′ & over especially the one’s over 70. Hope i am still capable of riding then. |
| What are your favourite hobbies/interests outside of motocross | Other than getting out on the road bike when I can, I do not get much other spare time. Next few weekends after a race meet are taken up getting the bikes ready for the next meet. Why would you want an other hobby when you have VMX? |
| What made you join VMXWA | Wanted to get back on a dirt bike, but none of my current friends were interested. I knew someone who rode VMX, so I thought I would come along & give it a try. 5yrs later I am still out there. Having never competed before I have now “got the bug” & enjoy coming to as many race meets as I can. |