What does your typical day involve? I get up at around 6.45am and I have usually made my first phone call by around 8.15am. I load the car and go wherever the day is taking me, visiting dealers and customers for demonstrations or even the sale of machines. Lunch could be a beer and sandwich with clients in a golf club, but more often than not alone in the car. Arriving home I synchronise the computer with head office.

What takes up most of your time? Other than work, I would say it is split fairly evenly between sherry, the bikes and friends and family.

Do you get out of the office as much as you would like? I think that I am beginning to get back to what I enjoy the most — working with people. A close friend said to me once: "One day we won't need our legs as it will all be done from a chair in front of a screen." I thought: "Not in this job it can't." Our industry is all about people and relationships, not messages on a screen.

What is the best part of your job? I enjoy meeting and listening to people and their experiences. What could be better than arriving at a well manicured golf course for an early morning demonstration with a machine that you know will do the job beyond expectations and without issues, on a lovely sunny day?

And the worst? I suppose if there was a worst aspect it would have to be servicing the computer database. I know we need it, but I prefer to be out and about selling.

How do you relax after work? My love and passion, other than sherry of course, would have to be working on and riding my Goldwing. After a tough day, to start her up — the Goldwing, of course — and go out for an hour or two in an evening is just heaven.

What does the future hold? I hope it holds good health for me and everyone I know.