GUMTREE RACER
Growing up riding and racing motorcycles as a child, I cast my mind back to a memory of my adolescent self, face pressed hard against the mesh fence spanning the perimeter of the Coolum Pines motocross track. It was the King brothers that day who battled it out for a championship on a track that I myself raced on just weeks earlier. Some 15 odd years ago now, it’s moments like these that are etched into my mind as I remember what the pinnacle of our sport here in Australia looked and felt like. At this time, thoughts and dreams of lining up to race one of these events were merely that, dreams… Nearly 20 years later, this dream was set to become a reality as I scrolled the pages of Gumtree looking for a used 125 to compete in the final round of the 125 Gold Cup, which is held as a support class alongside the MX1 and MX2 championships at select rounds.
THE ‘NIGERIAN PRINCE’
With little to no luck finding anything suitable in the greater Sydney region, I set about broadening my search parameters
