About the Author Roy Kunda grew up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, with his parents and two younger sisters. He spent a lot of time with his dog, Sacha, hunting rabbits in the paddocks until he discovered the other boys riding motorcycles out in the bushlands behind the budding housing estates near South Morang. Roy started riding one of his new mates’ bikes in the afternoons after school and hiding his cuts and abrasions from his parents at night. He bought his first motorcycle, a Yamaha YZ80 D, at 13 years of age with money he’d earned

Here’s a flashback to one of the first articles written about Cape York Motorcycle Adventures. Up Top Down Under by John Van Barriger, August 1993.