Is That Thing Diesel?: One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil

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Paul Carter Paul Carter

Is That Thing Diesel?

One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil

Paul Carter, Paul Carter, Chris Chapple

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English

Bolinda Publishing
01 January 2011

Memoirs; Humanities; Travel writing

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
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*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.

By: Paul Carter
Producer: Chris Chapple
Read by: Paul Carter
Imprint: Bolinda Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 9781742675787
ISBN 10: 1742675786
Publication Date: 01 January 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active