Simony Pavey

This entry is part 9 of 19 in the series Adventure Rider Issue #55

A motorcycle rally rider who finds enormous satisfaction in teaching others how to master off-road riding skills, ex-pat Aussie Simon Pavey is a maverick racer and off-road guru. He was happy to share a few stories with Graeme Sedgwick.

Simon Pavey levelling Dakar sand dunes.

GS: What inspired Downunder-born Simon to relocate to the northern hemisphere?
SP: A combination of things.
I was captivated by, and wanted to participate in, multi-day events. The longer the better. It was a five-day rally around the island of New Caledonia which made me look more broadly at rallies beyond Australia – and incidentally where I met my wife Linley.
Believing you’ve got to chase your dreams, and having decided to pursue a riding career, decisions were made to relocate pretty much after that first overseas event in 1988.
A stint racing in Japan resulted in my becoming first an enduro rider, and then led to wanting to do events in Europe. So Linley and I landed in England, basically because we knew another Aussie enduro rider in London. The ensuing years were loaded with challenges, including entering and finishing an African Six Day Rally, the Atlas Rally in Morocco, and my first Dakar in 1988.

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