Welcome to my blog!

Hello and welcome to the first of (hopefully) many updates.

For those who don't know, this will be my racing blog.  Where I keep the whole world up-to-date with all my fantastic racing exploits!  So, let's start at the very beginning then, I hear it's a very good place to start...

I started racing in late 2009 on an RG 150 in a class called streetstocks.  At the time, the class was basically only RG 150's and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.  Up until that point I had only ever ridden a Yamaha Scorpio.

Although you may not be able to read this... here it is!  (not my one of course)

http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Scorpio_Z

So my first foray into racing was a pretty enjoyable one.  I bought a bike and took to it like a duck to water.  All of a sudden I was spending the majority of my money on racing and lived for whenever the next race meeting was.  Here is my precious RG:

Me on my RG

The RG 150 is a single cylinder, 150 cc two-stroke machine, and I loved mine.  I took that thing round the South Island.  From the track outside Christchurch, Ruapuna to Levels Raceway a couple of hours away, even all the way down to Teretonga.  Which was about a 7 hour drive!

On that bike I competed in the NZSBK championships in the streetstock support class.  Which was just for the 3 aforementioned rounds in the South Island.  I took second place overall in my age group (streetstock seniors).  This is not at all impressive, as there were only 12 people classified in that class most of whom didn't even go to all 3 rounds.  Never-the-less, I'm happy with my achievement!  Unfortunately for all involved, my beloved RG passed away not long after the national championships and I had to sell it.  R.I.P good friend, you will be missed.

One of my first ever rides

So the season finished and it looked like my short career had finished with it.  I had no bike, no desire to buy another and was running out of enthusiasm having never had to deal with bike death before.  Luckily for me, I stumbled across Steve Ward Racing.  Which leads me to my current ride, an RS125 GP bike.  I'm hiring one off Steve this season and it has been a fanastic learning experience so far as we gear up to nationals.  Just a quick shout out to Forbes and Davies for the help, they've been brilliant.  Neo leathers and gloves, Airoh helmets.  Airoh have been great.  Dunlop tires plus I'm sure a few other of Steve's sponsers that will be mentioned in future posts!

I will be keeping everything up-to-date with all my racing adventures so keep a look out for new posts.  The next time on the bike will be this Friday for some testing before the second day of the King of Ruapuna series on Saturday.  So there'll be another update shortly!

Until then, keep safe everyone.