As I'm sitting here writing my column

Published: 10th January 2006

"A month away," I can hear you all say! I need a break as 11 months on the road week-in, week-out kills the body and the mind - so hopefully after living in the jungle for four weeks I will be fresh and revitalised for the new season.

And I might even lose some weight too! Bang goes another supercross series as not only did we lose the official ACU championship but now the final Future West round has gone down the swanny too. Cardiff is a great venue but unless we hold a world round then we'll never fill it - like my old mucker Sutty says 'you could give away the tickets but you'd still never fill the stadium'. Our little sport needs re-marketing and repackaging into arenacross, not supercross. Concentrate on filling the small venues with 8,000 screaming fans, get rid of the air horns, a good laser display always goes down well. Top it off with freestyle and the paying public with go away well pleased and just maybe the political in-fighting which is now happening will stop - it isn't doing anyone any favours. I hope 2006 will be good for everyone - Rage hopefully will expand, DBR will get even better and just maybe we can move our sport forward from last year and make the general public aware that it's not all about mud, noise and broken bones! Until next time ride safe...