My road is forever new…
Hello, I’m Warren, writer and photographer of Motorcycle Paradise, a free independent website about motorcycle travel.
There is no sponsored content here whatsoever. I’m not selling anything nor asking for donations. I finance all my rides and gear myself. I am not skilled as a writer but you get honest accounts of my real experiences with no marketing spin which is increasingly rare in a world of press releases masquerading as reviews and other drivel from ‘content creators’ on YouTube.
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 am continuing to tick off my ride bucket list – getting very close now to completing it as I approach 100 motorcycle tours.
I’m aware that everybody now is too lazy to read and prefers 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 enough money so don’t need to make 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 ‘motorcycle paradise’ 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 or a larger screen than a phone. I try to deliver a reasonable mobile device version but if viewing on a phone please realise you are only seeing thumbnails of the original high res photos which have been greatly reduced in resolution and quality.
Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions.
Thanks for visiting.
