The life of Dale Buggins has two distinctly different parts.
One is how a stunt rider from country New South Wales captured the imagination of millions of people both in Australia and overseas. The other is the tragedy that saw him take his own life at the age of twenty.
In a very real sense the two are inextricably linked. Like Chuck Connors famously said Ð it takes a certain kind of Cat to be a thrill seeker.