Riding in Europe can be a delight, exhilaratingly fast, frustratingly slow, confusing, challenging and even expensive. The continent is as...
Even with GPS and paper maps you can still get lost in some complex cities or counties with vague road...
How would you like to ride an MV Agusta Turismo Veloce 800 for seven days across three Mediterranean islands ending with a tour of the Varese factory? MV Agusta has put together the Tour of the Islands costing €2950 (about A$4370) for the rider and €1600 f(about A$2370) or a...
My first organised motorcycle tour has been a raging success and I’d fully recommend it for a couple, particularly in...
Motorcycle touring company Maschine is taking their TransTerra adventure ride series to Victoria’s High Country with the TransTerra Alpine Explorer...
(Sponsored post) Each year, tens of millions of tourists visit New York City to take in the sights, experience the city’s melting pot culture, catch a Broadway show, visit one of the world’s leading museums, shop on Fifth Avenue, walk through Central Park, and so much more. In fact, there’s...
The perfect Mother’s Day for a biker would be a romantic weekend in a country cabin on your favourite biker...
Follow the Story Amanda Zito is the person behind the YouTube channel As The Magpie Flies. She recently completed an...
Range and recharging times may still be an issue for electric motorcycles, yet it looks like the motorcycle travel industry may become electrified. A few years ago, Eidelweiss Motorcycle Tours in Europe started hiring electric Zero motorcycles, although it appears that is no longer the case. Perhaps they had too...
From King of the Road to King of the Castle, today we have ventured across Central Otago to the east...
(Scandinavia travel article written by Emily Peyton, an avid reader with a passion for writing. She blogs on different topics...
Motorcycle icon Charley Boorman loves Australia and can’t stay away. Charley, who was voted 18th all-time UK motorcycle icon in May will return Down Under in March to lead another Compass Expeditions Outback tour. READ THE ICON LIST HERE The third 10-day Outback tour starts in Sydney on March 11...
Motorcycle road trips are synonymous with big countries like Australia and the USA, but did you know that the first...
Below is a press release from Psychs on Bikes, a group of mental health professionals who raise awareness in rural...
Adventure seekers have a new destination to explore on two wheels, with motorcycle tour company Extreme Bike Tours launching its first tour of Cuba in 2016. It will be the first tour outside Asia offered by the company since it was started by motorcycle fan Zander Combe in 2011. His company...
When the going gets tough, the tough get going to the BMW GS Safari-Enduro. The first enduro version of the...
MotorbikeWriter invites reader, riders and bloggers to send us their travel stories about interesting roads and exotic locations. This entry...
(Contributed post) Greece is one of the most beautiful countries in Europe and is a fantastic place for a holiday any time of the year. The thriving capital city of Athens is home to some of the most important archaeological attractions in the world and ancient monuments such as the...
Just you and your bike, or you and your other significant other – pillion-in-a-million or fellow rider – should try...
If anything symbolises the majestic beauty of New Zealand, it’s Mt Cook as viewed across the azure waters of Lake...
While some motorcycle museums are closing down and selling off, there is one small, but significant, family museum that continues to build on their collection and keep their doors open in the name of a family tradition. The Panorama Motorcycle Museum 60km southwest of Brisbane includes mainly pre-war American and British bikes...
Even the Dakar Rally riders get a rest day, so we’ve programmed in a short ride today to recover on...
Indian-based motorcycle tour company Legendary Moto Rides is offering Motorbike Writer readers a 10% discount on their three 2019 Himalayan...
Even though you may not be able to leave home during the pandemic, and many motorcycle musuems ae ,cosed anyway, you can still take some virtual tours thanks to Goggle Maps street view. Click here for the virtual tour of the Ducati museum in Bologna, click here for BMW museum in Munich...
The Spanish island of Ibiza may be renowned for electronic music and night life, but automotive writer Paul Joshua reckons...
The inaugural Iron Run motorcycle rally is being held in Queenstown, New Zealand, in March so we are stayed an...
Route 66 doesn’t exist in its entirety anymore having been decommissioned in 1985 and replaced by a series of massive interstate highways. However, Australian company Route 66 Tours has pieced together the highlights of the famous highway for their tours. Lead guide Dan Azzopardi says they have spent several years researching...
Mexico is a quarter of the size of Australia or continental USA, yet has several disparate regions that offer motorcyclists a...
Extreme Bike Tours will be on a new Himalayan Expedition from 11-25 July 2020 and is offering a 10% discount only...
UK travel writer and adventure motorcyclist Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent has launched a motorcycle tours company specialising in “unique and fairly gnarly, extremely enlivening bike tours to places very few other people ride”. Edge Expeditions will start with two small group rides along Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan’s legendary Pamir Highway in June and July 2016,...
Few riders think of Kangaroo Island when it comes to great rides, but I was reminded of its virtues after...
From a sad and glum Greymouth to streams lined with bright wildflowers, from squally seaside rain to sparkling sunny lakesides,...
If you are interested in touring southeast Queensland and northern NSW, the guide book Throw Your Leg Over also comes with GPX files for your motorbike’s satnav. Throw Your Leg Over is written by frequent riders of the region, Bridget Hallam and Alan Cox. “We also provide our customers GPX files...
If ever you needed any evidence that Mexico is motorcycling nirvana, the road from Toluca just outside of the capital...
When you think of going for a road trip, Maryborough in South East Queensland isn’t your first choice. It’s not...
The “Raindrops” song from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is playing in our minds as we head for Butch and Sundance territory today with more wet weather on the radar. This is day 11 of our ride to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota aboard a...
Have you ever wanted to ride an adventure motorcycle through the beautiful Canadian Rockies and not take the tourist highways? Rocky...
Australian-based international motorcycle travel company Compass Expeditions is launching a TV mini-series. The two one-hour shows feature the 2014 Compass...
There’s a fine line between pleasure and pain and I’ve discovered that line here in the high country of north-west Colorado. We are on the ninth day of our 3200km trip to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally on a Victory Cross Country Tour and the mountain roads, scenery and people just...
Wauchope, the gateway to the famed Oxley Highway, will this Saturday declare itself the first motorcycle friendly town in NSW....