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2005 saw him ride speedway competitively and he finished 6th in the British U-15 Championship despite missing three rounds because of a broken arm. Without that he would have been challenging for a rostrum spot but a year later that came when he was 3rd behind Joe Haines and Ben Hopwood.
2007 saw him start the season in the Oxford Cheetahs Conference League side but disaster struck in his very first meeting when both he and his bike cleared the safety fence at Oxford.
He suffered a broken right leg, broken left hand, broken left and right shoulders, broken collarbone, compartment syndrome in an arm, severe bruising to his lungs and, most worryingly, bruising to his head with some internal bleeding on the back of the brain. He was in intensive care and spent 24 days in an Oxford hospital before they could move him closer to home.
As soon as he was home he was asking when he could ride a speedway bike again but doctors suggested it would be a year before he could contemplate that. Thankfully Adam's recovery went well and in January 2008 he returned to the track at Scunthorpe.
2009 was Adam's first full season of racing and he rode in 19 Saints' meetings scoring 104 points. 2010 saw Adam become the Saints' captain and he managed to up his average despite spending most of the season in the main body of the side and, once again, having it interrupted by injury.
