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PRO AT 14

RYLEY DAVIS IS A QUIET KID WHO HAS LOVED DIRTBIKES HIS WHOLE LIFE. HE GOES TO SCHOOL, DOES HIS HOMEWORK AND WATCHES HIS SISTERS PLAY NETBALL MOST WEEKENDS. THERE IS REALLY NOTHING DIFFERENT IN HIS DAY-TO-DAY LIFE WHEN COMPARED TO MOST AUSTRALIAN KIDS.

Just two years ago, Ryley Davis was your average kid. He loved everything to do with dirtbikes and always looked forward to a weekend ride. As good as the idea sounded, becoming a decent rider seemed out of reach. Flash-forward to today and Ryley is a backflipping, tour travelling, entrepreneurial, sponsored athlete. It’s easy to assume it was all handed to him, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Ryley Davis is a quiet kid who has loved dirtbikes his whole life. He goes to school, does his homework and watches his sisters play netball most weekends. There is really nothing different in his day-to-day life when compared to most Australian kids.

Yet this average Aussie kid is the youngest person in the world to backflip a full-size motorcycle at a live event, at the young age of 14.

His backstory starts the same way as that of many Sydney racing kids,

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