Avalon Lewis (née Biddle; born 21 September 1992, in North Shore, Auckland) is a New Zealand motorcycle racer.
She attended Pinehurst School, Albany, Auckland where she did well academically and Massey University where she studied for a Sports Science degree.
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[3] Biddle is co-presenter of the Sky Sport TV show Skyspeed and writes for Bike Rider Magazine.
[2][4][1][5] She moved on from this after purchasing a second hand dirty Suzuki RG150 for NZ$800 to compete in the New Zealand national 150 street stock class coming first in the Taupo Road Race Spectacular.
She also was awarded Most outstanding rider of the meeting award 2007 Rd 1 NZ championships, Best Newcomer South Island Sportz Fotoz Junior Cup, Auckland Motorcycle Club most promising newcomer, and Victoria motorcycle club rookie of the year.
[11] Following this in 2019, she competed in the New Zealand Supersport 600 series, winning the championship on a MTF Finance sponsored Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R it and becoming the first female to do so.
[16] In 2009 she headed to Europe to participate in the selection process based at the Adria International Raceway in Italy for the 2010 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup competition.
[1][18] Having come second overall in the 2011 Castrol Power 1 NZ superbike championships 125gp she was able to compete with a wild car entry in the 2011 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix 125 class.
She win the New Zealand Tourist Trophy Title 125gp and came ninth in the Asia Road Race cup at Sugo, Japan that year.
[31][32][33][34] In a 2016 interview with the Sunday News, she described her racing career as being funded by her mums world famous chocolate chip cookies.