Ten Minutes With: Toby Price

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

At 27, Toby Price could rightly feel he stands on the threshold of a stellar international off-road racing career.

With a string of national championships behind him, the support of KTM, and, most of all, a huge natural talent for racing dirt bikes, the Maitland rider is as cheerful and happy a rider as any we’ve met, but it wasn’t so long ago a savage neck injury had his career in doubt. Adventure Rider Magazine caught up with him just after he crossed the finish line at Alice Springs to claim his third Finke win.

AdvR: You’ve had some shocker injuries, but the latest one was serious, even by your standards. What happened there?
TP: I don’t remember the accident or hitting the ground, but I was competing in a national round of the Hare And Hound in the US, preparing for Baja. I ended up breaking my neck. I broke the C6, C7 and T1 vertebrae. Now I’ve got eight screws and two bits “I’ve got eight screws and two bits of rod that go down my spine holding it all together.” of rod that go down my spine holding it all together.