Durbo 2.0

IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE THIS LAST HAPPENED FOR Luke Durbridge. He pulls on the green and gold bands after dominating the national TT championship. He’s ecstatic with his ride and it caps off what has been a history making weekend for him and his family. This victory in the TT comes just 36 hours after his brother-in-law, Michael Freiberg took a heart-stopping win at the national road race. That Sunday on Buninyong was one of the most exciting in recent memory and a race in which the result wasn’t certain until the last 200 metres. Fast forward to Tuesday morning and Durbridge is powering through the TT turnaround on a record-breaking ride. He said after that he didn’t actually believe the time checks that he was receiving out on course, an indication of the humility of his character and perhaps the slight lack of faith that was left by the wayside along with the rest of the competition during that ride. Those 51 minutes herald a new beginning for the 27-year-old, who by his own admission has experienced a few “lean years”, nothing that has changed