Background
Barley was born on 27 September 1974.
Barley was born on 27 September 1974.
He is from Western Australia. When he was twenty-six years old, he broke his back after falling from a roof and onto a hammer. As of 2012, he lives in Parkerville, Western Australia.
Barley is an H3 classified hand-cyclist competing in road time trial and road race events.
He has a scholarship with the Western Australian Institute of Sport. His carbon fibre hand-cycle costs A$20,000.
Barley took up the sport within a year of his accident. He has hand-cycled from Perth, Western Australia to Sydney, New South Wales.
At the 2011 para-cycling road World Cup in Sydney, he finished third in the H3 hand cycling event.
In 2012, he competed in races in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Australia and France. Some of these races were part of the 2012 International Paracycling Tour season. Others were part of the World Cup season.
He was the sixth Western Australia to be named to the Australian team
The Paralympics were his first.