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Barry Horner

We’re standing in the impressive Boost Mobile Ducati transporter from which Craig McMartin supports three-time ASBK champ Wayne Maxwell at each round. The conversion was completed by Barry Horner, one of the legendary brothers responsible for the Irving Vincent brand, and which Ken and Barry provide to the team as part of their significant support.

“I spent 21 months building the transporter into a comfortable and useful thing,” Barry says proudly.

And given his vast and successful engineering experience, it’s spotlessly clean and surprisingly sparse – everything has a place and a use. If it’s not essential, it’s not in here.

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