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. No paid reviews, no pay walls. I finance all my rides and gear myself. I am not a skilled writer but what you get is honest accounts of real experiences with no marketing spin which is increasingly rare in a world of Ai generated click bait and press releases masquerading as reviews 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) back when WWW was in it’s infancy and I had just one megabyte of online storage. It moved a few times but never became anything much until landing on Google’s Blogger platform in 2006. Now it is a WordPress site with 40GB of motorcycle travel stories.
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 and that stuck in my head.
The blog grew considerably after I left my career in 2013 to ride the world, choosing to measure my success in life by my own values not by material possessions or opinions of others. What seemed to many the dumbest thing I could do 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.
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 from late 80’s into the 90’s. However the few photos I have of then are precious whilst the video was never viewed ever again. This site is my diary, it exists just to please me. I have enough money and don’t need to beg people to like and subscribe to boring GoPro videos. I record my memories the way I enjoy.
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 realise you are only getting thumbnails of my photos on your phone which will be low resolution.
Thanks for visiting.
