Rocky Creek Designs is a fairly new identity in Australian adventure riding, but it’s making a big impact. Owners, Janice and Greg Jansen, are a couple always in motion, even sitting on their verandah in Byron Bay, looking out over their coffee plantation, the pair seem to be having a ball taking over the world.
AdvR: You guys are both quite entrepreneurial. What sort of things did you do before you began manufacturing motorcycle products?
GJ: I was riding motocross in Hong Kong in 1975. I raced there for about three or four years, and then came out here to Australia in 1982. I didn’t go back to racing, but I rode bikes and all sorts of other things here.
I started out mowing lawns and cleaning gutters and so forth, and then I went into computers. I was an analyst-programmer, and I did that for a long time.
I got bored with that, so I bought a drill rig and worked on building sites doing heavy drilling. I had an accident that crushed a finger, so I got out of the drilling business and went back to computers for a while.
Then we came up here to Byron and I became a coffee farmer.