RYDER Kingsford isn’t your average nine-year-old.
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The Wollondilly Public School student has a passion for speed, dirt and adrenaline which is what drives his love for motor cross racing.
Best of all, young Ryder is pretty good at it too.
He was recently crowned within the top three Australian racers in his 65 CC seven to nine age group at the Australian Motor Cross Titles held in Appin in September.
Since then he’s also gone on to dominate the Australian Super Cross Series, winning round one in Bathurst two weeks ago.
He now has eyes set on taking out the series come November 8 when the final round kicks off in Brisbane.
This is all after the youngster broke his right leg while practising in his backyard five months ago.
It was only two weeks after the cast was taken off that the grade four student took third place at the Nationals.
“We’re very proud,” his mother Michelle said.
“He puts in a lot of work into his riding. He lives and breathes it. When he’s not riding he’s watching videos of competitions.”
Ryder rides a KTM65cc. Before he broke his leg he had just taken out the first round of the East Coast MX Series, and looked set to dominate the competition which saw riders from all over NSW compete.
He missed the second round due to the injury, but fresh out of the cast, Ryder claimed second place in the third and final round.
His father Scott says his two sons, Ryder and six-year-old Kayd, have grown up surrounded by motorcycles.
He had been a rider himself and Michelle was also brought up around dirt bikes.
“He’s been riding since he was three-and-a-half-years-old,” Mr Kingsford said.
“We were rapt with how well he did, he worked so hard to get to get to where he is, and for a young kid he’s a great rider.”
Little brother Kayd is now set to follow in his older brother’s footsteps.
Come December he will be allowed to begin racing competitively.
But the Kingsford boys aren’t the only ones with motorcross ambitions here in Goulburn.
The boys train with 19-yearold Charlie White, who also competed at the MX Nationals in Appin.
He recently received his A grade licence and finished third in the Pro-Unlimited class at the East Coast MX Series.
Fourteen year old Tom Toparis, with his Kawasaki KX 85cc has also been racing MX club rounds around the district and he has been finishing with good results.
He also decided to have a crack at the Aussie titles at Appin in the 85cc class .
Eighteen-year-old Taylor Oag, finished third in the under-19 clubman class at the East Coast MX Series riding a KTM 250.