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A hand-picked selection of recent stories, galleries and long-form motorcycle projects.

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Full
Tests
image • 12 Favourites • image 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
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Images The Trialists II
image • The Triallists • image 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.
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2001 - 2011
A Memoir
image • The Facility • image A 25th Anniversary recollection of a halcyon decade spent in New Zealand - and an amazing collection of motorcycles.
Indexed fast bikes
image • The Fast Bikes • image A pictorial colection recalling the rapid machines I was fortunate to get to test over the years.
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Set The Trialists II
image • Night Moves • image A collection of nocturnal motorcycle photography with Exif data and notes.
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Guide The Trialists II
image • Dave's H–D • image An illustrated beginner's guide to Harley-Davidson. Model, chassis platforms and engine-type explainers.
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A Sponsored Press Rides retrospective with a few highlights from a 25-year career in Moto-noting.

Slide Shows Updated 2007 Press Ride
image •  Buell to FNQ • image Rainforest to Red Dust. A H–D Factory ride of one thousand kilometres across Far North Queensland on the remarkable Buell Ulysses.
2009 Fiordland
NZ Tour Slide Shows Updated
image • The Victory Tour • image 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.
Slide Shows Updated 2010 Southland
Tour
image •  Winging It • image Eight Days in Motorcycle Heaven. A Gold Wing, perfect weather and New Zealand's lower South Island at its finest.
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Currently showcasing my Bike History and selected Memoirs & Recollections.

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Slide-show
Gallery
image • In Heavy Duty • image Celebrating 15 years contributing to Heavy Duty Magazine, this set catalogues all 150 of the test and feature bikes published so far.
A Timeline Video Jukebox
image • Bikeography • image The Dave's Place story, as told in motorcycles.
A timeline of all of the bikes I've owned.
A Memoir
of the 70s The Harold story
image •  The Three H's • image The Holden, The Honda and ‘The Sydney Morning Harold’: reminiscences from a career in graphic art, design and the pre-digital, analogue-everything age.
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Categorised areas of the site: videos, selected photography and a long-running blog archive of tests, features, stories and motorcycle odds and ends.

Featured Videos Slide Shows Updated
image Selected videos with full bike tests, features, music generations and photo slide shows.
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Pics of the Day Slide Shows Updated
image Selected Photos, Graphics and other Images from the Dave's Place archives.
The current set features Night Shots — and how I take them.
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Slide Shows Slide Shows
image Interactive photo slide shows from the Dave's Place archives, featuring motorcycle shoots, stories, galleries and restored image collections.
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Blog and Archives NEW! Blog and Archives
image Press articles, test rides, reviews, photography and long-form stories for various media outlets. Hundreds of bikes featured.
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