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  • In the daytime I'm an IT nerd.

  • I work as a websphere administrator.

  • And then at night, this whole different person comes out.

  • You know, he wants to be like a badass.

  • He wants to ride his scary bike around.

  • He wants to wear the scary helmet.

  • That's, maybe, my escape from work.

  • I think the helmet represents...

  • the badass

  • biker in me.

  • So I guess this whole

  • thing about bike really started back in Mauritias, when I was about five.

  • My Dad used to race these little 250's and 49cc's

  • Dad came home to a bike

  • that was dismantled. He's asked my Mum

  • "who the hell did this to my bike?" And my mum pointed at me...

  • the little kid. And, um, she said "Well it's your fault, you're the one who showed him

  • how to do all this stuff!

  • What did you expect?" So I guess

  • from the age of 5 I kinda had this instinct

  • to tinker around with bikes.

  • And my mum still blames my dad for me tinkering around with bikes.

  • Runs in the blood, I guess.

  • I think the Mad Max...

  • I did have an idea of what I wanted to build but it wasn't a very solid idea.

  • I had my mates going, "hey, build another cafe racer".

  • And then the other half of people would say "hey, why don't you build something different. Why don't you build a tracker?"

  • And I thought, you know what? I'm gonna build something that's crazy. Like a "Big Foot" tracker!

  • And that kind of stayed in my head.

  • That's what I wanted to get out of the Mad Max - a monster truck bike!

  • Some of the mods on the Max

  • was to make it look big and chunky. Starting from the front

  • the big front forks, twin disc brakes

  • 180 tyres on, five and a half inch headlight with the

  • custom grille that I made up. Moving towards the back

  • I got this double exhaust coming into one

  • shooting up the back into two again. And then you've got an extended

  • swing-arm on the rear with a huge 200 tyre

  • and then, obviously, you've got the candy-red paint

  • A little seat to give it that nimble sort of look

  • On the rear you've got the rear tyre hugger and combining all that together

  • you've got the single monoshock

  • which is off a Hyabusa, with a custom spring

  • It's really sort of cool and I think the end result is "Monster Truck Bike"!

  • Sometimes, you know, I don't get time to ride and

  • after maybe a week or so I go into my garage and I can just see the

  • rear of the tyre and I'm thinking...

  • that looks pretty good. And I just go across

  • to the side and I say to myself

  • "Did I actually build this thing?!"

  • And then I just start up the bike...

  • You just hear that big roar going "blublublub"

  • You know that type of feeling you get where you're just like "whoa". You just want to ride it

  • and she just wants to go.

  • You just feel that sense of freedom, the loudness.

  • You hear everything.

  • All you want to do when you get on the Max and you're on the freeway, you just want to scream!

  • I'm free, I can do whatever I want!

  • I don't know...

  • It's just crazy.

  • I guess that the feeling that I get on the max when riding it.

  • I think the main reason behind the helmet is

  • when I take the helmet off all you can see if this boy.

  • I'm in IT, I'm at a desk and

  • you know, nobody cares what I do and

  • when I'm on the Max everybody sees me

  • and everybody cares what I'm doing

  • It's just like an attention seeker. It's a crazy bike.

  • So when I put the helmet on, it's badass.

  • It looks mean

  • Being a badass, I don't know if I am a badass...

  • but yeah, that's what it is...

In the daytime I'm an IT nerd.

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