Paul was born 45 years ago in Australia. He has been riding, building and racing motorcycles since the age of 13, the first being a bicycle that he fitted with a lawn mower engine.   Never satisfied with what was on offer, his next bike was a 250 BSA engine in a 125 BSA Bantam frame. By age 16 he had fitted a 250 Honda MX motor into a 125 Hodaka frame – a bike that he raced successfully in the local Motocross competition. After starting work in the engineering and steel fabrication industry, he naturally progressed into working on motorcycle projects such as sidecars, frame modifications, front end mods and big bore engines.  He then ran his own motorcycle engineering and Triumph repair workshop for 10 years before moving to Indonesia to set up to import and distribute Royal Enfield motorcycles.