The pair has started their own extreme sports venture – combining bikes and bulls to successful effect.

Brodie has been riding motocross professionally for a few years now, but for Jed, this has been a complete lifestyle change.

For the past six years he’s been in far flung communities in remote Queensland working in mining.

Jed has traded dump truck driving and earth planning for something closer to his heart.

“People told us this was a pretty far out idea – a lot told us we were mad,” Jed said.

For Brodie, originally from Drake but now based in Brisbane, it was a more natural move.

“My passion for motocross took over in my teens and has stayed with me.  I still enjoyed going to the rodeo but decided to leave the bull riding to the professionals.

“Then in 2010 I had this idea, what if we could bring the two sports together and create an awesome show involving motocross and rodeo,” he said.

It was during a stint recovering from a brain haemorrhage, punctured lung and dislocated shoulder that Brodie conceived the idea.

The pair didn’t keep in touch to much over the years but when Brodie reached out to Jed, he was all ears.

Jed said Brodie came to him with this crazy idea and wanted him to come on board as a commentator for the shows.

“For Brodie it was make or break. He poured his heart and soul into it and mortgaged his house,” Jed said.

“I came on board to commentate and be a bit of a jack of all trades – I always rode but I was never quite good enough to do something like this.

“If you told his teachers what Brodie was doing now they’d laugh at you – he was always a wild young man.”

Their company, Bikes and Bulls, combines exactly that.

“We did our first ever little show in Lismore in front of a few thousand – it was such a rush.

“To get five or six thousand to your first show – that’s a hell of a lot bigger than the towns we come from.”

It was then and there Jed began planning his way out of mining.

Now on board full-time he says they’re expanding their venture with unique ideas.

Between shows they’ve started getting around to schools.

“Its new territory for us – we talk about goals and safety and put on a bit of a show for them.

“People tell you coming from the country is a setback – we want to show them it’s not.”

They haven’t forgotten their home town either and plan on getting around to schools or putting on a show in the near future.

They have seven shows scheduled for this year and Jed says he’s hopeful they’ll double that next year and hit up more of the country.

“2017 I want to go to America,” he says with a grin.

“They love Aussies – it’s a far stretch of the imagination though.

“It’s all a bit of fun but a hell of a lot of hard work,” he said.