A hand-picked selection of recent stories, galleries and long-form motorcycle projects.
Currently showcasing a series of restored Historical Images, a Personal Bike History, a few personal Memoirs and Recollections and a Beginner's Guide to H-D.
12 Favourites
Over the years I've ridden hundreds of motorcycles, but only a handful have stayed with me long after I handed the keys back.
These are a dozen of the bikes that indelibly impressed
Photo
Restoration
Restoration
The Triallists
A series of digitally restored images featuring the participants in a Motorcycle Reliability Trial held around Sydney, NSW in the 1930s.
The Facility
A 25th Anniversary recollection of a halcyon decade spent in New Zealand - and an amazing collection of motorcycles.
Timeline
Bikeography
The Dave's Place story, as told in motorcycles.A timeline of all of the bikes I've owned.
Memoir
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.
A Guide
Dave's H–D Basics
An illustrated beginner's guide to Harley–Davidson. Models, platforms, history, engines and more.
Archive
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.
2009 NZ
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.
2007 Press Ride
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.
