My best friend was Tom Sawyer, later a six-day racer in Europe, and we were the two rough nuts, while Phil and Darbs were the two upper-class boys".

[3] Anderson won the 1977 Dulux Tour of the North Island in New Zealand[4] and the Australian team time-trial championship at Brisbane in 1978.

He moved to France in 1979 to join the ACBB,[3] a club at Boulogne-Billancourt in the suburbs of Paris with a reputation of placing riders in professional teams, particularly Peugeot.

He won two races in his first season – the Prix de Wetteren and a stage in the Étoile des Espoirs, and came second in two others.

That same season he finished second in the Super Prestige Pernod International, forerunner of the UCI points championship.

[10] Anderson retired to a farm he bought in Jamieson and has what he calls the life of a gentleman farmer.