Former world motocross champion Ben Townley is back on the KTM bike brand he rode to win that world title and he's obviously loving it.
Though now retired from racing fulltime, the father-of-three, formerly from Taupo, used some of that 2004 MX2 world championship title-winning experience to good use at the weekend when he rolled up at Taupiri for this year's edition of the New Zealand Miniature TT Championships.
The two-day affair, on rolling grassland just east of Huntly, was the perfect place for the now 33-year-old Townley to strut his stuff, the flat paddock racing not too demanding in terms of fitness, although still requiring that he know how to pick lines and how to twist the throttle to the max.
As it turned out, the event also forced him to deal with the psychological stress of dealing with a setback, a test he also passed with flying colours.
Townley rode a KTM 450 SX-F in the MX1 class and also borrowed a KTM 125 SX from the CML KTM Racing Team to ride in the Senior 125cc class.