KIWI RIDER 08 2018 VOL.1 | Page 23

WORDS: Boris Mihailovic PHOTOS: Andy McGechan SLOAN FROST A CONVERSATION WITH Our mate Boris caught up with NZSBK champ Sloan Frost during the first part of his Aussie SBK season. I met Sloan Frost on a bus travelling to Phillip Island at last year’s press launch of the Suzuki GSX-R1000. I had no idea who he was, and after he introduced himself to me, I still had no idea who he was. When he rounded me up on Turn Three like I was a used pair of fat underpants, and left me gawking as he fried his rear tyre most of the way to Turn Four, I was still no clearer as to who he was. He was clearly someone who could ride heaps faster than me, but there are lots of people in that group and it doesn’t make him special. I guess what made him a little special was that he apologised for passing me. “No dramas,” I said to him. “It was actually quite a treat to see someone riding as hard as that. I’m just pissed I couldn’t watch you for any longer. Still, I did get to see you again when you lapped me.” And Sloan was fun to watch. His body language was pure aggression, and he really did look like he knew what he was doing on that Suzuki. I still had no idea who he was, though, and figured he might be a journo from some Kiwi bike mag I’d not heard of, like Ewe- Herders Galore, or Fast Farmers. > KIWI RIDER 23