Nigel Petrie

Following on from my last post where I drove our 1965 Econoline up to the RedBull Day in the Dirt I stored my van at my sister in laws on the Gold Coast and flew back home waiting for the perfect opportunity to make the flight back up and drive home. That opportunity came when […]

Too many three letter acronyms for you? Well I’ll expand it out, Rising Sun Workshop in Newtown Sydney is a communal home for motorcycle lovers, it gives RSW members a garage to work on their own bikes with the tools to do so both physically and metaphoricaly. You see its not only the tools to […]

It all started with a trip to Japan in 2010, I went to see drifting and ended up falling in love with vintage American motorcycles, sounds crazy right? I’ll try and explain myself. While exploring Japan I kept being drawn to a vintage American culture that is so popular in Japan. It came as a […]

A couple of months ago I spent some time up in QLD and met up with Max from Akin Moto, he threw me the keys to his Triumph Scrambler, equipped me with a new Akin jacket, some gloves, a helmet and we hit the road to meet up with some of his friends. After a […]

It has been a crazy few months here in the ETS garage, there has been monumental changes in both the layout of my workshop and the capabilities that lie within it. I had big plans but little room, something had to give, I completely went through my entire garage and sold everything that I didn’t […]

Wow, it has been a big few months, as I write this I am sitting on a plane to Sydney (presenting the Sidchrome Project car for this year) and realise it is the only spare hour I have had in a long time where I am forced to sit and do nothing, so Ill write. […]

When Peter from DriftCadet asked me to be a part of the MotorEx drift demo team I quickly jumped at the offer, I was looking for a chance to drive both the Hilux and the 180SX but didn’t really want to head too far from home as the Hilux had a couple of changes that […]

Last year was a big year for me, I really put my focus into moving forward with the PS13 project and put off any offers to take the Hilux out on track. You have to understand that track days are not the easiest things to do, from the trade stand preparations that happen a month […]

I’m not sure if I am a slow learner or it just takes a while to get that deep understanding I need to truly work out my machines. I made a decision a long time ago to stick with the SR20, if you believe everything you read then you would probably go elsewhere in the […]