The story behind Motorcycle Marty starts way back in 2020. Wanting to subtly steer his young daughter Juniper away from tablets and television, author Donovan Davie made up the character off the top of his head when a suitable bedtime story could not be agreed upon. The stories were ad-libbed on the spot, often with little thought beforehand.

The primary story details how Motorcycle Marty built a hyper-advanced motorbike with plans to ride it around the world. The build was assisted by his old friend and mad scientist Dr Skratchensniph, who also built Max – a robotic dog to accompany Marty on his trip. He soon met a firefighter named Gunther, who became a fast friend and traveling companion. A standard episode would generally involve Marty and his friends assisting someone they meet in their travels, their trip being halted from another problem they need to solve or sometimes a bizarre series of events that is revealed to be one of the character’s dream – or nightmare.

As time went on, the stories evolved to become a long episodic series, including more regular characters and more complicated adventures as the child became older. At age six she created Princess Rola, who has become a regular fixture – and obvious favourite. Family members who heard about the stories began pleading for some sort of recorded version, and that’s when the first draft of the first story was written.

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