MH: Yeah Charlie in October, it's real good apart from the fact he keeps waking me up in the night! It's the scariest thing in the world but the best thing ever in the world and I wouldn't change it!

MH: I started running training schools in the summer with Brian Wheeler, and they're going really good. I tried to set up something a bit different to what everyone else is doing and that seems to be working really well, we have a lot of people who keep coming back to the training schools and we get phone calls from people saying how well they've been doing since attending, one lad phoned me last week and told me that since he's been coming on the training schools, he has been given free bikes and kit for this season! When you get feedback like that it gives you a boost. Then at the end of the season last year the ACU approached me about running the Academy and asked me to go to a BYMX event and choose some riders, it was a bit of a tricky task because I hadn't been around the Schoolboy scene for a while so I spoke to Roy Barton about it and between us we chose some riders and I think we got some real good ones, and we've been working with them through the winter and seeing some good results already.

MH: We got a kid on the Academy called Ben Watson and he's awesome, he's got a clever Dad in Rob Meek to keep him going aswell so hopefully I can help him along the way also but looking at the talent we've got coming through on a whole there is some real good riders out there who could make it all the way.

MH: Being on a privateer team it just equals a lot more hard work, and it is HARD WORK! You have to do your own bikes, find your own sponsors, sort all your entries and your trying to keep yourself fit whilst going to work aswell, when your on a big team all you have to concentrate on is riding the bike and training. I really enjoyed doing GP's but it got to the stage where I wasn't enjoying it so I don't miss the GP's now! I had a real good time when I was doing them but it got to the stage where I got married and starting a family and with all the travelling it really takes it out of you, I miss the excitement of being at the GP's and racing against the best in the world but the travelling begins to get to you after a while when your doing it as a privateer.

MH: I really want to try and win the British Open Class Championship, I wanna give that my best shot, and just try and get some good results in the British MX1 Championship and in the British Masters, but really I just wanna enjoy my riding and get all of the ACU Academy doing real well and hope that some of them can win some of their respective championships, and have some good rides when they go abroad. I've got some exciting stuff going on with the Training Schools and the Academy and with my racing so we'll have to see what it brings.