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His name is William but everyone knows him simply as BJ.A popular character on the motorcycle road-race scene, 42-year-old BJ
Cawthorn is the first to tell you that age is no barrier when it comes
to racing motorcycles."I've only been racing four years but, thanks to help from
(Whakatane's former national superbike champion) Tony Rees, I've been
going okay."His two biggest claims to fame in that time? "Not re-marrying," he
smiles, "and managing to keep up with my mentor, Tony (Rees), at a
recent Pacific Motorcycle Summer Series race meeting at Taupo"Tony got first that day, racing a 1000cc Yamaha R1, and I finished second overall, on a 600cc Yamaha R6. That was pretty cool."I stayed up with Tony for about three or four laps ..and learned a
lot from that. Then, just talking with him afterwards, it was more of a
chance to learn stuff."I've only done rounds one, three and five of the Victoria Motorcycle Club's Actrix Winter Series but I've been doing okay."I've been around
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