Over the stream into woods,
Over the hill into the village,
I travelled yesterday and I will today also;
My road is forever new.
Yun Dong-ju (윤동주)
Hello, I’m Warren, writer and photographer of Motorcycle Paradise, a totally free and independent website about motorcycle travel. There is no sponsored content here. I’m not selling anything. I finance all my rides and gear myself.
I am not skilled as a writer so all I can offer you is honest accounts of my real experiences. My posts will probably have questionable grammar or might be read the wrong way by some visitors since I am not a wordsmith however they will be totally free of marketing spin and contain no requests to like and subscribe which is rare in this world of algorithm influenced drivel from YouTubers.
I started Motorcycle Paradise blog in 2006, however it’s roots go back to 1995. It was originally a “home page” (as personal web sites were once called) when I first started using the internet. It never became much until I rebooted it on Google’s Blogger platform ten years later. Now it’s a WordPress site with 45GB of motorcycle travel.
The name of the blog comes from the region I used to ride most Sundays; Northern Rivers, Australia. This area was once described as a ‘paradise for motorcycles’ by one of Australia’s leading motorcycle writers (The Bear) and that description stuck in my head.
The blog never became much until I quit my career in 2013 to try ride my bucket list, choosing to measure success in life by my ideas, not the opinions of others or community norms. What was considered the dumbest thing I could do by my former colleagues turned out to be my best life choice. 2022 I was diagnosed with cancer. You never know how long you might have left to do what you dream about.
The good news is I had successful surgery and so far am in remission. After a break I have resumed riding motorcycles and ticking off my bucket list.
I’m aware that most people are too lazy these days to read and prefer YouTube. I used to shoot video in the 90’s but realised I was mainly trying to entertain other people and never looked at the videos again myself. I’m not trying to entertain anyone now just record my travels and my preference for doing that is photography and written word, i.e. blogging. And frankly in a world where everyone is a YouTuber spamming contrived drivel having sold their soul to the algorithm – I rather like that I’m doing my own honest thing here.
Being a photographic web site, Motorcycle Paradise is designed to be viewed on a PC. I try to deliver a reasonable mobile device version but it is always going to be optimised for and look much better on a PC.
Thanks for visiting.
