What a shocker of a weekend I had last time out at The Bend. We battled with a revolving door of technical issues in our four days at…
I came to the UK two years ago as an Australian champion and with the best wishes of some of our greatest riders; Troy Bayliss, Jason Crump,…
Stepping off a Fat Bob following my ride with Dobie for last issue’s Harley feature and climbing back onto my Cube Racing Kawasaki ZX-6R racebike was a…
I didn’t realise how much was involved in road racing until I was offered a ride in the SSP300 class this year. It’s not just getting on the…
The first question everyone is asking is if this bike feels anything like the Ninjas I raced previously overseas. It is practically the same machine, so I expected…
My path into road racing is probably a little different to most. As a kid I raced dirt track on the small bikes – it was kind of…
Speedway racing can give you the highest of highs or the lowest of lows. I was a Reserve for my home GP in Melbourne last year, and waiting…
Normally my sights are set on what challenges and goals lie ahead, not the past. However, now that I’ve announced my retirement after 16 years of top-level Australian and…
Our competitiveness started early. When we were about 10 and 12, our dad bought a second dirtbike. Until that point we’d been sharing an old DT175, taking it…
Motovudu riding coach (and 500 GP winner) Simon Crafar helped out a lot. He let me stay with his family and took me around Spain a little with his…
Jon is the national brand manager for Husqvarna Motorcycles and has been backing me for a few years now with a TC125 and FC250 to race dirt track. Jon…
For anyone unfamiliar with the concept of extreme enduro, Romaniacs has been around since 2004 and is touted as the ‘Toughest Extreme Enduro Rallye in the World’.