Career
Pollock has ridden as a professional since 2005 for continental teams from Asia, Europe and Australia. A bad weather specialist, Pollock has had wins in Australia"s longest one day race, Melbourne to Warrnambool and stage 2, 2011 Tour of Tasmania when it snowed. Pollock represented Australia in MTB World Cups before switching to full time road racing in 2001.
1999 saw Pollock ride for Australia at under-23 level in three MTB world cups, Sydney, Belgium and the world championships in Sweden.
2001-2002 were the first years spent racing overseas, riding for Staf Boone at Belgian amateur team Kingsnorth Wheelers. In 2008 Pollock rode for UCI Continental ranked team DFL-CyclingNews-Litespeed out of Belgium, racing in solely in Europe with one excursion to Australia for the season ending Herald Sun Tour.
1987 Paris Roubaix winnder Eric Vanderaerden was Directeur sportif for DFL. 2008 was a solid year with starts in Het Volk (Het Niuewsblad) and Three Days of De Panne. After DFL folded the at the end of the season, Pollock returned to Chinese team Marco Polo.
Pollock then signed with Australian domestic team Drapac Professional Cycling for the 2009 season where he remained until 2013.
This team choice assisted with the decision to complete further studies. Being a rider more suited to one day courses, Pollock regularly escapes in the day"s breakaway.
