Anderson, who had a reputation as an amateur for crashing,[REF] won the 1977 Dulux Tour of the North Island in New Zealand[REF] and the Australian team time-trial championship at Brisbane in 1978 [REF].
He moved to France in 1979 to join the ACBB,[REF] a club at Boulogne-Billancourt in the suburbs of Paris with a reputation of placing riders in professional teams, particularly Peugeot.