Adam (Gavin King)

Above: Gav on the ride to Humevale.

So with a great Wonthaggi event out of the way, we switch our focus back onto the Australian International Pedal Prix. And the next team profile is of Adam (Gavin) King.

1) Age? 20

2) Where do you live? Brunswick (home to underbelly) - where a few of the underworld shootings took place - which is nice.
3) What is your job and where do you work/Study?
I am a 3rd year Civil Engineering student at Melbourne University and also work part-time as a draftsmen at an engineering company in between uni commitments.

4) Number of Races?
8- (3 Wonthaggi's, 3 Energy Breakthroughs and 2 AIPP's). I've never raced a 6-hour - maybe next year.

5) As a Civil Engineering Student how do the skills you are learning benefit BYR? Well... learning about civil engineering you deal a fair bit with material properties and design work with CAD which comes in handy at times.

6) As a HPV student at both Flora Hill and Bendigo Senior Secondary you have been a part of some successful teams. What is your best memory/moment from HPV Racing? My best memory would have to be winning the Energy Breakthrough for the first time in 2005 with Bukkamalazir. Coming into the event we thought we could be competitive with the top teams but to be so dominant over the rest of the field and break Sav's record was unbelievable. The Energy Breakthrough has always been the pinnacle for school teams in Australia. You just can't beat the excitement of riding down the front straight in the last couple of hours. Other great moments would have to be watching BYR win in 2003 at AIPP and watching Flora Hill win last years EB.

7) What is the best thing about being involved in BYR?
It would have to be the mate ship that comes from being involved with the team. Just being able to build something with your mates that you wouldn't normally be able to do is pretty special.

8) What is the Hardest part about BYR?
Travelling from Melbourne to Bendigo every couple of weeks does make it hard but it is definitely worth it. Otherwise it would just be trying to explain to people what it is that we actually build.

9) And Finally BYR don't promote crashes but they are an unavoidable part of our sport. What is the most spectacular crash you have been involved in or seen?
It would have to be 2 of Rowan's crashes. One was at the 2005 AIPP in Qualifying when he thought that he could go round Channel 7 corner at 60+ km/hr and had barely entered the corner before he was on his lid and sliding into the hay bales. The other was when we took BY-06 out after the race down some steep hills and gravel roads and Rowan decided to show us the art of HPV drifting on a gravel corner needless to say it ended badly.

Next cab off the rank will be BYR Treasurer Deven Pearce.
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