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Hello, my name is Warren. Motorcycle Paradise is my two-wheel travel journal. I quit my career in 2013 to do the things on my bucket list. I write so I do not forget and I publish here to encourage myself to do more. I launched Motorcycle Paradise in 2006 on Blogger. The name originally was chosen to describe my local riding region in northern NSW Australia. Formerly Australian now based in..
Motorcycle Paradise
1M ago
I have now toured on both the Honda Goldwing and the BMW K1600GT and have a few comparison notes. You would already know they are both similar size large motorcycles and both are similar weight. At a standstill the BMW feels the heavier of the two. The Honda carries its […]
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Motorcycle Paradise
1M ago
I have had to split my ride report for this tour into two parts as it was too many photos for WordPress, the blogging platform I use to display. Potes to Logrono I don’t feel too bad next morning, some pain from the Shingles. I have a big box of […]
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1M ago
After enjoying the fantastic roads of Sardinia I flew to Portugal for the second half of this trip the focus of which was to ride the best pure motorcycling roads in Europe. Leaving Olbia Sardinia where no ride share services exist allowed taxis to charge me 30 euro for a […]
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Motorcycle Paradise
2M ago
A Motorcycling Paradise I became aware of Sardinia being a motorcycle destination back when we had print magazines and manufacturers wined and dined journalists at new bike launches in special riding places. From regional Australia it was four flights and three days to get here. I flew with Cathay Pacific […]
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2M ago
By Peter Egan I’ve read some of Peter Egan’s writing before and decided this collection would provide a way to pass some time on another long haul journey to ride a far away place. Peter is a very talented writer. I wish I had a fraction of his skills. The […]
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Motorcycle Paradise
3M ago
I’ve tried many items claimed to keep you dry riding in rain and most have proved to be useless in one way or another. Jackets with Gore-Tex zip in liners work as long as the outer layer of the jacket does not get waterlogged. They come with a ‘Durable Water […]
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3M ago
Phone cameras produce images that are ‘good enough’ for blog publishing. That’s something I have said and other bloggers I follow such as Chillertek have said. It has even been stated by some serious professional photographers I follow. Despite this while enjoying a look back at my rides recently I […]
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3M ago
I have been a long time user of Ride with GPS. All my routes for all my motorcycle tours going back to around 2012 are made using this web based tool however since Mid 2023 I have started a transition to MRA Routeplanner. There are a few reasons for this […]
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3M ago
I got caught out with the weather on my New Zealand South Island tour so grabbed whatever I could find in the way of warmer gloves to allow that ride to continue and as it turns out got myself a reasonable pair of winter gloves. The Dainese Plaza 3 gloves […]
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4M ago
By Peter Jones The Bad Editor is a collection of previously published motorcycle magazine columns and a look behind the scenes at what motorcycle journalists used to get up to in the days before the internet when we still bought magazines and what was written in them was fairly influential. […]
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