And this has been on his career comeback - three years ago, he suffered serious head injuries in a crash and had to learn to walk and talk again. "I suffered a traumatic brain injury, bleeding and swelling on the brain and frontal lobe damage.
"I was in an induced coma for eight days then a brain injury rehab clinic for five months."
The last three years have been filled with hospital appointments and rehab, but the downtime meant he focused energy on creating a motocross graphic design company and clothing brand - Moto Mayhem - which he is launching on Saturday.
"It is a proven fact that brain injury patients find their creative side in the rehabilitation, due to being frustrated at not being able to get the words out due to your brain's damage and linking the connections to say how you are feeling," he said.
"After years of being around an industry I loved and being told that I was no longer able to ride a bike, this was my closest outlet to stay around the industry."
Motorcycle Lab owner Glenn Smith believes it's the first FMX event in Whangarei. "I'd like to see it become a yearly thing - if we get enough support it could be," he said.
