Industry Players: Janice and Greg Jansen

Adventure Rider Issue #6

• Checkout
• Reader’s Bike: Rowan Carroll’s XTZ660 Ténéré
• Ten Minutes With: Toby Price
• KTM 640 Adventure with Craig Hartley
• Wish You Were Here
• Reader’s Ride: Southern Tassie
• Good Points with Karen Ramsay
• DualSport Australia
• Scott Britnell’s KTM 690RFR
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• ADVX with John Hudson
• Packing For Adventure with Robin Box
• BMW G 650 GS Sertão
• Kawasaki KLR650 New Edition
• Triumph 800XC Tiger
• Radiator Guards
• Trek Tasmania
• Reader’s Pic
• Ol’ Mate
• Special Group
• Pretoria To Cape Town
• Industry Players: Janice and Greg Jansen
• APC Rally 2014
• Contributors
• It’s What We Do

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.