She's 18, she's very fast, and she's taking on the world's elite motorcycle racers.
Auckland's Avalon Biddle is one of New Zealand's fastest motorcycle road-racers and now she's keen to test herself against some of the best young men and women from other parts of the world, racing at the FIM Asia Cup of Road-racing at Sugo, in Japan, this weekend.
"It has all been a last-minute thing really," says Biddle. "It's only come together in the past couple of weeks. I'm very excited about it.
"All the bikes are supplied by the race organisers ... they are all 150cc four-stroke Yamaha YZF R15 model bikes, each one identical to the next and the riders get their bikes allocated to them through a ballot system."
That should make the racing very close, something that Biddle is well prepared for after being involved in handlebar-to-handlebar racing at home during her New Zealand summers. She is a rising star in the sport in New Zealand and regularly beats the men.