The desire to hurtle around a circuit on two wheels is a hard one to quench and he will head back to the Island Classic meeting at Philip Island, Australia, for the second year running next month.
For Price there is the addictive anticipation of a reunion with rivals from his 1980-83 stint competing over the ditch. Do not for a minute think they cut each other any slack now.
"The standard of competition there is pretty amazing," Price said.
"If you are going to be competitive, you have to be prepared to try very hard."
Last year's event attracted 220 riders from Australia, New Zealand and the United States and hosted a who's who of motorcycle racing.
Notable entries were 1987 500cc world champion Wayne Gardner and former grand prix road racer Ginger Molloy.
Price said Molloy, in particular, embodied the spirit of the Philip Island meeting.
"He would be closer to 70 than 60 now and still viciously competitive."
To get some track time in beforehand, Price will ride in Wanganui's Cemetery Circuit street races on Boxing Day, followed by another meeting in Taupo on Saturday and Sunday.
He will be one of 16 Kiwi riders going to Australia and joins half of them in racing Yamaha TZ350 bikes.
His association with this model goes back to when he first embarked on the transtasman circuit.
Price had been road racing in New Zealand in the late 1970s and decided to break into international competition at the beginning of 1980.
After riding a mate's Yamaha TZ350 he decided it was the "affordable entry to GP racing".
Going over with the intention of becoming a world champion, he soon found the financial reality of essentially privateer racing made it hard to compete with the top Australians.
"I never had enough money to do it properly."
Alternating overseas racing with seasons in New Zealand, he scored a memorable victory in the 1980 Castrol six-hour marathon at Manfeild - sharing a Yamaha RD350LC with Mike Hogan.
His "best ride ever" in Australia was winning the Victoria state 350cc championship.
A big crash a Bathurst in 1983 quashed plans to head to the United Kingdom and a similarly spectacular slide at Pukekohe two years later put paid to another tentative international deal.
His ankle broken, Price thought "maybe I should get a proper job".
He moved to Wanaka and established a helicopter maintenance business but was reluctant to relinquish motorcycle racing.
When he saw his original Yamaha TZ350 advertised for sale he bought it, spent considerable time setting it up and took it to "arguably the best GP circuit in the world [Philip Island]" last year.
He came home nursing a cracked collarbone and ribs after crashing on the last lap of the last race.
"I don't walk so good," he says with a laugh.
