Top New Zealand women’s motocross rider Emma Davis checks in on her latest adventures abroad with the DBG Kiwi Suzuki Team in the United Kingdom.

Click here  Emma Davis update March 2011 for her story

“Well it has been a full on couple of months for me on the other side of the world,” she reports

It all started for Emma in mid-January when she spoke with Rex Michau, who is the man behind the new NZ Dirtbike Gym race team which is competing in the three main motocross series in Britain.

“In less than six weeks I had given up my steady job and lifestyle, packed my life up and found myself on the other side of the world! My deal is that I train and ride with the team while still fitting in 3 days work doing engineering duties for Armech International, which sponsors the team as well as helping out wherever I can with the running of the team.

“In the three weeks I have been here so far I have found myself being camp mum, a chauffeur, trailer builder, sign writer, race mechanic, tea lady, athlete, bike washer and have even managed to fit in some racing.

“Every day has been different and I have been loving every minute of it!

“The three kiwi riders – Bjarne Fredericksen, Kieran Scheele, Johnny Phillips and also a Kiwi mechanic, Henry Kells, and myself are all living together at Rex’s house.

“We have had a heap of other people coming and going as well so dinner time is always interesting. It feels like you are cooking at a prison soup kitchen sometimes!

“The boys are racing three championship series so in about seven months. I think they only get four weekends off. They have all definitely picked up the pace since leaving NZ and now that they are getting into racing I think they will just keep stepping it up more and more. At the moment I am just racing the three-round British Ladies Championships, however once I get some more fitness under my belt I will enter in to some of the British Masters Rounds in the MX2 class.

“I am kept busy at the races otherwise, doing everything from pit boarding to making sandwiches to arm pump massages. I’m a jack of all trades these days and people back home didn’t even think I could look after myself on race day!”

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