Born to be wild.

Learned to ride on a cousin's farm at Grenfell, western New South Wales, at age 14. Got the first proper bike at 17 the moment a licence made it legal, and never really stopped. Dirt bikes, race bikes, road bikes, adventure tourers, dual-sports: the categories matter less than the hours in the saddle.

Years lived and worked in the Philippines opened up a whole second riding life across Southeast Asia. The roads are different, the rules are different, the heat is different. The thing that stays the same is the conversation between rider and machine, the constant micro-feedback that turns a route into a story.

• First ride
  Age 14, Grenfell NSW
• First bike
  Age 17, the day a licence allowed it
• Disciplines
  Dirt, race, road, adventure
• Regions
  Australia, Philippines, Southeast Asia
• Bikes
  BMW, Yamaha, dirt and dual-sport
• Training
  Stay Upright

Long-time member of the Mad Dog Motorcycle Club (MDMC), an Asia-based motorcycle club with its Mother Chapter founded in the Philippines in 1994 and chapters in Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China. Membership is a close-knit brotherhood of riders, mostly executives, business owners, and professionals from all over the world, with one thing in common: each member has earned the privilege of wearing the Mad Dog colours and the club tattoo.

A lot of motorcycle clubs carry difficult reputations. MDMC has the opposite: the motto is that whenever the club visits a place, it leaves it better than it came. Each chapter runs outreach and charity work. In the Philippines, MDMC is particularly known for its medical missions and for installing deep-water wells that bring safe drinking water to isolated communities.