I’m a freelance journalist, specialising in motoring and cycling, but I have also written about travel, tourism and history.

Cars and bikes might seem an unusual combination, but I enjoy the variety. In fact, if it has wheels, with or without an engine, I’m interested in it and may well have written about it.

I also undertake corporate work for a number of clients, and work as an online presenter and video producer.

Since going freelance I’ve taken a caravan north of the Arctic Circle, cycled up Mont Ventoux in Provence three times in one day, and tested hundreds of new cars. I’ve entered the World Human Powered Vehicle Championship (in which I was lapped repeatedly by a 15-year-old boy), pretended to be a motorhome owner from Mansfield, and annoyed Vince Cable.

I don’t mind rolling up my sleeves and grafting. I have been on the organising team for major international conferences, undertaken huge mystery shop exercises and written worthy but dull features about insurance.

In my previous life as a staff journalist for the Haymarket Media Group, I was the editor of What Car? magazine, then editor of Practical Caravan. Haymarket made me Consumer Journalist of the Year so long ago I can’t even remember when. But it definitely happened. I saw the certificate when we last moved house.

If you’d like to get in touch, please email me at david@davidmotton.com.