LIFE S A BEACH RACE
How did bikes start for you?
When I was 11, with a Deltek Grass Grub, one of those small-wheeled, fat-tyred minibikes with a lawnmower engine and automatic clutch. By the time I was 14 I was racing motocross and flat tack on a 1979 Yamaha YZ125F. I found I was better at flat track but much preferred motocross and my club, Mackay MCC, did both. My next bike was a 1980 RM125T and, when I was 16 with an apprenticeship as a
