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A collection of original motorcycle tests, photography, video, features, memoirs and digital designs.
Drawn from more than 20 years of motorcycle media experience, this collection grows with new content and creative projects added regularly, along with carefully restored and updated archive material.
A hand-picked selection of recent stories, galleries and long-form motorcycle projects.
• 12 Favourites •
Over the years I've ridden hundreds of motorcycles, but only a handful have stayed with me long after I handed them back. These are a dozen of the bikes that indelibly impressed
• The Triallists •
An interactive mini-site with a series of digitally restored images featuring the participants in a Motorcycle Reliability Trial held around Sydney in the 1930s.
• The Facility •
A 25th Anniversary recollection of a halcyon decade spent in New Zealand - and an amazing collection of motorcycles.
• The Fast Bikes •
A pictorial colection recalling the rapid machines I was fortunate to get to test over the years.
• Night Moves •
A collection of nocturnal motorcycle photography with Exif data and notes.
• Dave's H–D •
An illustrated beginner's guide to Harley-Davidson. Model, chassis platforms and engine-type explainers.
A Sponsored Press Rides retrospective with a few highlights from a 25-year career in Moto-noting.
• Buell to FNQ •
Rainforest to Red Dust. A H–D Factory ride of one thousand kilometres across Far North Queensland on the remarkable Buell Ulysses.
• The Victory Tour •
What started as a better way to get to and from the Burt Munro Challenge blossomed into one of the best rides Big Dave and the Co-Pilot have ever had.
• Winging It •
Eight Days in Motorcycle Heaven. A Gold Wing, perfect weather and New Zealand's lower South Island at its finest.
Currently showcasing my Bike History and selected Memoirs & Recollections.
• In Heavy Duty •
Celebrating 15 years contributing to Heavy Duty Magazine, this set catalogues all 150 of the test and feature bikes published so far.
• Bikeography •
The Dave's Place story, as told in motorcycles.
• The Three H's •
The Holden, The Honda and ‘The Sydney Morning Harold’: reminiscences from a career in graphic art, design and the pre-digital, analogue-everything age.
Categorised areas of the site: videos, selected photography and a long-running blog archive of tests, features, stories and motorcycle odds and ends.
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