Growing up in the Bournemouth area and now living in Poole Neil took to the track for the first time with Hants and Dorset Club back in 2000, he joined the Ringwood Club upon its reformation in 2004 and has been a member ever since, currently riding in the A.M.X. class.

Clinching a very respectable 7th place in the inter 80s class of the Hants and Dorset Club Championship in 2001 he stuck with his lucky number 7 and in 2003 took third overall in the big wheel 85s.Plagued with injuries in 2005 breaking a wrist in April and suffering a broken vertebrae and shoulder in late December whilst practising in California it was 2006 which saw him snatch another 7th in the overall standings of the Ringwood Club Championship in the A.M.X. Class.

Switching from a 250 four stroke to a 250 two stroke, he has become a devotee of the D.E.P. British Two Stroke Championship over the last two years and has enjoyed travelling around the U.K. experiencing a variety of new tracks, recording a very credible 6th place overall in the open junior class as the curtain came down on the series in October 2007.

For the last two years the annual Western Supermare beach race has become part of the racing schedule, which as many will know is a gruelling test of stamina and control for both rider and machine. Sadly his first venture onto the West Country sand in 2006 was a frustrating one as his bike let him down on the first lap. Returning in 2007 his perseverance and enthusiasm was rewarded as he lined up with over one thousand riders and laid the demons of the previous year to rest finishing the race in the mid three hundreds.