Ten Minutes With: Toby Price

This entry is part 23 of 25 in the series Adventure Rider Issue #6

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.

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