My road is forever new…
Hello, I’m Warren, writer and photographer of Motorcycle Paradise, a free independent website about my motorcycle travels.
There is no sponsored content here. I’m not selling anything nor asking for donations. I finance all my rides and gear myself. I am not skilled as a writer so all I can offer visitors is basic but honest accounts of real experiences minus marketing spin which actually is increasingly rare in a world of algorithm driven output 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). Public internet access was a new thing, purchased by the hour and blogging was limited by the storage available, often just 1 megabyte. My home page never became much until I rebooted it on Google’s Blogger platform in 2006. Now it is a WordPress site with 40GB of motorcycle travel.
The blog expanded considerably after I left my career in 2013 to ride my bucket list, choosing to measure success in life by my values, not by material possessions or the opinions of others. What seemed the dumbest thing I could do by my former colleagues turned out to be the best decision I’ve ever made. 2022 I was diagnosed with cancer. You never know how long you might have left to do what you have dreamed about.
The good news is I have had successful surgery and so far remain clear. I have resumed riding motorcycles and ticking off my bucket list rides. Actually I will have finished my list in 2025 and have completed 100 motorcycle tours.
I’m aware that most people are now too lazy to read and prefer YouTube. I used to shoot a lot of video, actually I was a bit of a video pioneer in the late 80’s. However the few photos I have of then are precious whilst the video was never viewed again. This site is my diary, it exists just to please me. I have no interest to create contrived YouTube videos and beg people to ‘like and subscribe’.
The name of the blog comes from the region I used to ride most weekends, 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.
This site is designed primarily for viewing on a PC and is not optimized for phones. I try to deliver a reasonable mobile device version but am not going to dumb down the site and reduce image quality just to make it load faster for mobile devices.
Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions but I am not interested in marketing proposals or guest posts.
Thanks for visiting.
