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Avalon debuts new HJC R-PHA 10

  HJC helmets have served many riders very well over the years and Avalon is extremely pleased to have their continued support for the 2011 season. She has been riding with the latest model R-PHA 10 helmet and is notably impressed. “I have been loving my new HJC. It is so much quieter and better...

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  • Full Name: Avalon Lindsay Eva Biddle
  • DOB: 21-09-1992
  • Born: North Shore, Auckland
  • Lives: Orewa, Auckland / Florence, Italy
  • Began riding: Age 6, mini motocross
  • Began road racing: Bucket racing age 13
  • Race number: 21
  • Hobbies: Mountain biking, running, riding dirt bikes, the outdoors, spending time with friends
  • Occupation: racer/personal trainer
  • Favourite riders: Aaron Slight, Simon Crafarm, Marc Marquez

 

History:

I began riding motorcycles age 5, aboard a PW50 when my elder brother and I raced mini motocross. The cost of moving up into the junior rankings competitively as we got older was too much for my family, so I waited until I turned 13 to give road racing a shot.

I started ‘bucket racing’ at the local go-kart track and after many very promising results and winning the ‘Most Promising Newcomer Award’ we decided to purchase a Suzuki RG150 and contest the highly competitive 150 street stock class on New Zealand grand-prix tracks.

I had a ball racing in the national championship races down south, where the streetstock class exploits grids of over 50 riders and after numerous wins and breaking a lap record we decided that traveling to Australia to race would provide me with some stronger competition to gain more experience and realise my potential. I finished 5th in the 2007 Australian motorcycle road race development association series.

After 3 seasons on a 125gp bike, finishing twice runner-up in the New Zealand Championships and taking lap records and both the NZ Grand Prix and Tourist trophy titles, I have now moved up to 600cc machinery.

In 2012 I spent 6 months livingin Italy racing the cbr600rr cup (finishing 12th in the under21 age category) and the Italian Womens Championship (where I finished 2nd). In 2013 I raced a WIL Sport Management Repsol Suzuki gsxr600 in the New Zealand championships at home in New Zealand, and have returned to Italy for the summer season here racing a cbr600rr.

I am very thankful to my family, supporters and sponsors who have given me these opportunities and who continue to support me in every way possible, I couldn’t do it without them and I believe this support will help me to get closer and closer to my goals!

Acheivements:

2012:

2nd overall Italian Womens Championship – cbr600rr

2011

2nd overall Castrol Power 1 N.Z. superbike championships, 125gp

Winner New Zealand Tourist Trophy Title, 125gp

9th Asia Road Race cup, Sugo – Japan

2010

1st Australasian Formula Extreme Championships, 125gp stock class

2nd overall Castrol Power 1 N.Z. superbike championships, 125gp

2nd New Zealand tourist Trophy title, 125gp

2nd Rd 5 Castrol Power 1 N.Z. superbike Championships, 125gp

1st New Zealand Formula 5 Grand Prix

2009

1st New Zealand Grand Prix, 125gp

1st Rd 3 Castrol Power 1 N.Z. Superbike Championships, 125gp

2nd Rd 1 Castrol Power 1 N.Z. Superbike Championships, 125gp

2nd Rd 4 Castrol Power 1 N.Z. Superbike Championships, 125gp

2nd Victoria Motorcycle Club Actrix Winter series, 125gp

2nd New Zealand Formula 5 Grand Prix, Taupo, F5 buckets

4th overall Castrol Power 1 NZ superbike championships, 125gp

*Set new 125gp lap record at Manfield Raceway, Fielding, 1.13.6

2008

1st Pacific Motorcycle club summer series, 125gp

1st Brother Taupo Road Race spectacular, 125gp

2nd Auckland motorcycle club series, 125gp 2008

2nd Rd 5 Australian motorcycle development association, Phillip Island, 125gp

Nominated Most Promising Newcomer at Motorcycling New Zealand awards dinner

2007

1st Rd 1 NZ championships, streetstock class

1st Victoria Motorcycle Club winter series, streetstock class

1st Victoria motorcycle club winter series, junior class

2nd Taupo Road Race spectacular, 125gp

3rd Rd 2 NZ championships, streetstock class

5th Australian Road Race Development Association series

*‘Most outstanding rider of the meeting’ award, 2007 Rd 1 NZ championships

*Best Newcomer, South Island Sportz Fotoz Junior Cup

*Auckland Motorcycle Club ‘most promising newcomer’

* Victoria motorcycle club ’rookie of the year’

2006

1st Taupo Road Race Spectacular, streetstock class

2nd Auckland Miniature road race series

2nd Miniature road race New Zealand Grand prix

*Most Promising Newcomer, 2006 miniature road race series