About the Instructor
Col Rogerson

I began riding motorcycles at 12 years of age on a friends 500cc Norton. Three years later, at the age of 15, I purchased a 1949 Matchless 500cc single.

I purchased my first road bike when I was 17, it was a 1962 BSA 600cc.

After my road experiences, I decided to try racing stock bikes at the age of 19. I later progressed to speedway. I purchased a JAP followed by speedway JAWA's and raced these bikes throughout Queensland and Northern NSW. I also raced short circuit and scrambles.

At 22 years of age I travelled to the UK where I spent a season racing for the Teeside Tigers as a professional speedway racer in the second division and second half rides with first division Halifax Dukes. Fellow Aussie John Titman rode for Halifax Dukes and taught me an immense amount about the world of a professional racer.

After competing in my first season successfully in the UK, I secured a contract to return for the following two seasons.

I returned to Australia where I worked in the Motorcycle Industry and continued racing at Ipswich and Exhibition Speedway as well as other tracks throughout Queensland and Northern NSW. The idea was to save some money to enable me to buy a better car.

During this time I was selected to represent Queensland and Australian teams for the following two seasons in England. While riding for Australia, I suffered a broken collarbone which kept me out of action for four weeks. Six weeks later I suffered a fractured neck which saw me out of action for several months and short of finances. Subsequently I did not return to England, but married instead.

I continued racing in Australia for another couple of years, eventually retiring and training some of the up and coming young riders. I really enjoyed helping the young riders.

Later I was approached by Queensland Transport Motorcycle Training Program to become a voluntary Motorcycle Instructor. This enabled a group of trainers to run Advanced Training Courses over weekends. I later went on to become the Senior Instructor of this group of trainers.

Before committing to become a voluntary trainer with the Motorcycle Training Program, I attended a weekend Training Course and later various Train the Trainer courses.

Being a World Class Motorcycle Racer only means that you can handle a motorcycle, but doesn't qualify a rider in any way to ride on the road. There is so much more to learn about road craft and traffic riding.

I had been riding on the road since I was 17 years old, but after participating in these training courses, I found I really enjoyed road riding much more.

Col Rogerson

Qualifications held
Workplace Assessor - level 3
Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment

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