At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, no longer
toiling on offshore drilling rigs, was Paul Carter happily nestled in
the cotton wool of suburban life enjoying the fruits of his labour? Was
he f**k!
With his manic life left far behind and the perfect opportunity to take
it easy stretched before him what else would a middle-aged, bike
obsessed, man want? Yes, that's right, he'd want to be the first guy to
ride around Australia on an underpowered experimental motorcycle that
runs on used cooking oil, wouldn't he? Preferably without getting hit by
a semi-trailer full of bridge parts. Is he out of his mind? Quite
possibly.
Embark on a rollickingly, downright dangerous and often unhinged quest
that starts on an environmentally friendly motorcycle built on a
shoestring budget by students, and ends with a plan to break the
motorcycle land speed record for bio fuel.
