Background
His English father served as a Senior aircraftman in the Royal Air Force who saw active duty during the Malayan Emergency, his mother is South African.
His English father served as a Senior aircraftman in the Royal Air Force who saw active duty during the Malayan Emergency, his mother is South African.
His family relocated to South Africa in the late 1980s, Carne graduated from Potchefstroom Boys High and was in the same class as the South African Olympic 800 metre runner Hezekiél Sepeng, South African Heavyweight Boxer Sean Santana and first class cricketer Gary Outram.
Cycling As a junior he dabbled in time trialing on the road before turning his attention to mountain biking. Carne & Timothy Jones (cyclist) who raced at the 2001 Giro d"Italia share the same grandfather. 2005
12th Zimbabwean National Mountain Bike Championships (ZIM)
10th Gauteng & North Gauteng Interprovincial (Republic of South Africa )
2007
5th (Mens 30-35) UCI African Cross Country Championships, Windhoek (National Association of Manufacturers).
He placed 12th at the 2005 Zimbabwean National XC MTB Championships held in Harare and was a member of the Zimbabwe squad that competed at the 2007 UCI African Cross-country cycling Championships that were held in Windhoek Namibia where he placed 5th in the Men"s 30-35 Cross Country race.