He endured the harrowing chemotherapy treatment with immense courage only for the leukaemia to return within weeks of ending the treatment. Everyone was shocked at the news and could not believe what they were being told.

Ian lived for and loved motorcycling especially Enduro racing which he had just recently taken up before being diagnosed with leukaemia. He started biking on an old air cooled Malaguti 50 ran around on that for a few years then permanently borrowed his dad’s YZ125 and started to compete against his older brother Steven in Schoolpersons Motocross events. Ian was a member of Scottish Youth Moto-X and Glenrothes Youth Moto-X Clubs. When he reached the age of sixteen he started to compete against his Dad, and older brother Steven in Enduros ,he usually beat them. Ian started the1999 season on hisYZ125 and then switched to the YZ250 and had good results with both machines. He was always "up the track" (Lawhead farm practice track) or doing something to do with bikes. Some photo’s of Ian and the bikes are shown on this page.