Over the past few years I’ve had a lot of ups and downs on my bike due to an injury I suffered back in 2015.

It was Mother’s day and the weather was unusually good for the time of year. I’d jumped on the train and headed to Liverpool to film my GT bikes welcome edit and met up with two friends - Jack and Finley. We headed over to the university and they took me to a flat rail (about bar height with an 8ft drop down one side of it) and I decided I wanted to try a double peg to 180 down the drop. I took a few run ups then decided to send it. I hopped onto the rail and committed to the 180 but as I rotated my front tyre brushed the rail. I instantly knew it wasn’t going to end well. And I was right.

I took a pretty bad slam hitting the back of my head… and at the time I had no idea how much this was going to affect me in the future. Immediately, I was taken to hospital and spent the next five days there under close observation. The scans showed minor haemorrhaging and some air on the side of my brain, but I was assured this would “settle over time” and cause no further problems. I had also managed to fracture the front of my skull due to the impact to the back of my head, but this was also going to heal itself with no further problems. I also had to have stitches to close the wound on the back of my head. The hospital told me that I needed to live with a responsible adult for a few weeks to be constantly monitored, so I was to move back in with my parents and I was discharged into my mum’s care.