[2] As a professional cyclist he raced UCI Downhill World Cups for the Giant factory team,[3] competed in the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships – classifying 9th overall in 1999 and 13th in 2002[4][5] – finished in 2nd (1999) and 3rd (2000) in the British National Mountain Biking Championships Downhill discipline, and was Scottish champion five times.
[6] After retiring in 2005 he continued to compete strongly at national age-group levels in other off-road disciplines such as Enduro and Cyclo-cross.
[5][7] His children are also active in the sport;[8] son Corran competed in the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships in 2020 and 2021 in the Junior Cross-Country and Team relay events.
He subsequently spent six years on the British Ski Team, and claimed medals in the sport in several editions of the Winter Deaflympics.
[2] His younger sister Emma[10] represented Great Britain as an alpine skier at four Winter Olympic Games.