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Profile
Name: Kerrin Phillips
DOB: 7/1/66
Where I live: Canberra (at the moment).
Bike I ride: 2004 Sherco
2.9
Past bikes owned: 2001
Sherco2.9, 2000 Sherco 2.9, 1998 Sherco 2.5, 1996 315
Montesa, 1995 Beta Techno, 1994 Beta Techno, 1992 Beta,
1990 Beta Zero, Yamaha SN 250 x 2, Yamaha TY 175, Honda
TL125, Yamaha 60.
What grade I ride: A
and Masters.
Club I ride for: Canberra, Oakleigh,
Manly Warringah.
Favourite riding location: Secret
Location in Canberra closely followed by Pacific Park.
Training partner: Don Murray, Joe
Manzano, Luke Anderson, Martin O’Connor.
Favorite riders: MOC, Miglio (Who
still pulls some way rad moves) Fujigas and Raga.
Trials career highlights: Kowen Forrest
1990 (1st A Grade NSW Championship Round). Being a support
team rider for New Zealand back in ’86 riding
in the Australian Championships and the Brookfield 60
trial.
Trials goals: Be my son Isaacs minder
in the World Championships.
Training techniques (how I perform my best):
Hmmm, geez I wish I knew that…
Favorite pre trial food: Pancakes.
Favorite pre trial drink: V.
Best ever finish at the Aussie titles:
13th in 1990, a long long time ago…in a galaxy
far far away…
Why I enjoy trials: Sometimes when
I’m lying upside down on the side of a hill with
my leg jammed between the muffler and the tyre I wonder…
but mostly I enjoy the challenge. Also because my wife
and son/s can come along and enjoy it also.
What I do when I’m not riding trials:
Washing my bike (except when there are water restrictions
of course) and explaining to Isaac on a regular basis
why he can’t have a Sherco 0.5 yet. (Something
to do with not being able to touch the ground).
I started trials because:
I used to observe from the age of about 6 months when
my dad used to ride so I sort of grew up in trials although
I didn’t start competing until I was about 18.
I had a battered TL125 at the time and there was a trial
on near where I lived, I went along to watch and thought
“I can do that” but soon found out I couldn’t
and have been trying ever since!!!
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