I'm the owner and author of Paris Dakar Melbourne which is all about my own bike, a 1986 BMW R80G/S Paris Dakar, and the places we go on it. Journalist and ex-editor of Motorcycle Trader and Cafe Racer magazines in Australia and NZ. Family man of four primary school-age children and a teenage Rottweiler. Wishes he was faster and could speak Italian (WIP).