Carl is a qualified level 1 Cycling Australia coach and a level 1 strength and conditioning coach, who has been coaching riders in Melbourne since 2003. Carl mainly works with road, track and criterium racers and event riders (AUDAX Alpine Classic, 'Around the bay in a day' etc) at all levels, from beginners to A grade, but mainly focussing on riders wishing to enter the sport rather than elite riders.

Carl currently races B grade in Eastern Combine road and criterium events, and has finished two Melbourne to Warrnambool road races, 3 'Around the bay in a day' rides (including the awful weather epic in 2003) and the 200km AUDAX alpine classic in 2006 (43 degrees up Mt Buffalo! ouch). Carl races B grade at Blackburn club track races and C grade at DISC with a special liking for motorpaced events, sprints and pointscores, and a marked distaste for wheelraces and anything where he can't hide and wait for a sprint. Carl also has a MTBA licence but confesses to being a complete gumby on a mountainbike and is yet to actually start a MTB race.

Carl splits his time between training, coaching, working at Cycle Science Mitcham as a mechanic and bike fit consultant, and IT support and consulting, maintaining the aboc website and occasional sleep!

At present (September 2008) Carl has eight bicycles - a 2003 Trek 4700 MTB with RockShox 'Riva SL' forks (after destroying the original RST elastomer forks descending Mt Sterling in winter 2006), a 2002 US Postal replica Trek 1400 roady (70,000km), a 2005 Trek Madone 5.2 'Project One' (31,000km), a Trek T1000 tandem, a ratty old Malvern star pub/shopping bike, a 2008 Trek Fuel EX8 dualie, a unicycle and a 2006 Trek T1 track bike with Bontrager Carbon race-lite wheels (yum!) (0km - no computer).

Read Carl's random pontifications on his blog page if you're bored.