If you’re heading off to ride through Europe, beware that the European cops, the guardians of the roads, who will be eagerly...
Italian motorcycle company MV Agusta appears to be moving into the lucrative motorcycle travel industry offering tours in their home...
It didn’t take long for the new Royal Enfield Himalayan adventure bike to replace the Bullet as the preferred machine on tours through the subcontinent. Nomadic Knights is the first motorcycle tour company to offer expeditions in India, Nepal and Tibet on Royal Enfield’s new 411cc adventure bike. Tour company MD Alex Pirie...
The Oxley Highway is a road you have to ride at least once in your life, according to veteran motorcycle...
Have you ever wanted to ride an adventure motorcycle through the beautiful Canadian Rockies and not take the tourist highways? Rocky...
Veteran Aussie motorcycle adventurers Shirley Hardy-Rix and Brian Rix packed their big Beemer in 2015 for a trip from Greece the long way to Vladivostok and have now released an inspiring book of their travels. The Long Way to Vladivostok, published by Aussies Overland, is available online or as an...
Experienced riders and daredevils are invited to join the inaugural Nomadic Knights reconnaissance motorcycle tour of the hair-raising Cliffhanger in the Himalayas. The...
World motorcycle traveller Jacob Laukaitis has compiled the above video of a 850km motorbike trip across three states in India...
Motorcycle tour company India Travelz has offered Motorbike Writer readers a special US$250 (about A$325) discount on their tours. Just click below to search for availability and to make a booking. Make sure you include the coupon code MotorbikeWriter to get your discount. Tours are reasonably priced from less than...
Route 66 doesn’t exist in its entirety anymore having been decommissioned in 1985 and replaced by a series of massive...
How would you like to ride an MV Agusta Turismo Veloce 800 for seven days across three Mediterranean islands ending...
The best word of advice I’ve received about riding in New Zealand is that if it’s wet on one coast, it doesn’t take long to ride across to the other side of the island and bask in sunshine! I received that sage advice in 2015 while on the ferry from...
Kyrgyzstan is one of the exotic “stans” in central Asia west of China and north of Pakistan, a country undiscovered...
Electric motorcycles will again be a major part of the sixth annual World Advanced Vehicle Expedition Trophy, the world’s biggest...
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...
Cuba is a mystery wrapped in an enigma – inside a time warp – that you have to see and...
Motorbike Writer and I got ripped off big time in Cuba, but despite the many scams Cuba is one of the most...
My first organised motorcycle tour has been a raging success and I’d fully recommend it for a couple, particularly in countries where you aren’t confident with the route, customs and language. We’ve just finished a 19-day tour through Mexico, Guatemala and Belize with Ferris Wheels Motorcycle Safaris (soon to be...
Mexico is a quarter of the size of Australia or continental USA, yet has several disparate regions that offer motorcyclists a...
Even with GPS and paper maps you can still get lost in some complex cities or counties with vague road...
After a six-hour border crossing from Mexico to Guatemala and arriving at our hotel in the dark about 10pm, riders on the Tacos n Tequila tour with Ferris Wheels Motorcycle Safaris were not very complimentary about the country. SEE ALL THE PHOTOS HERE We had been asked for a bribe...
UK travel writer and adventure motorcyclist Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent has launched a motorcycle tours company specialising in “unique and fairly gnarly, extremely enlivening...
If you want to ride endless, smooth, knee-down asphalt curves, don’t go to the Italian Alps, head to Mexico, the...
Ferris Wheels Motorcycle Safaris has truly become a worldwide motorcycle travel company so it is relaunching as World on Wheels with annual tours to nine destinations and 15 countries. After 21 years, Ferris Wheels owners Mike and Denise Ferris have decided to re-name the business from January 1, 2016, to reflect their...
If you want a holiday, try a Women’s Weekly cruise, but if you want some adventure, try a Ferris Wheels...
If ever you needed any evidence that Mexico is motorcycling nirvana, the road from Toluca just outside of the capital...
If you want to get plenty of filtering practice, a trip to Mexico is a must. On the first day of our three-week Tacos ’n’ Tequila Tour through Mexico with Ferris Wheels Motorcycle Safaris, we experienced the extremes of ancient and modern civilisation. The tour starts outside Mexico City with...
How would you like an all-expenses-paid adventure ride through Madagascar on a Touratech equipped bike to feature in a promotional film for...
Jacob Laukaitis spent a month exploring Bali on a motorcycle and declares it is a paradise for riding. Watch his...
Sri Lanka is a country that seems to be off the schedule for most motorcycle tour companies, but not Extreme Bike Tours. They will start operating tours of the temples, jungles, tea plantations and palm-fringed beaches in July and August 2016 riding classic Royal Enfield motorbikes. Extreme Bike Tours sounds...
Almost every road in Tasmania is a motorcycle rider’s paradise with more corners than you can count. But there are...
https://youtu.be/9COnTirVLfk Cambodian-based motorcycle tour company Ride Expeditions is expanding into the Himalayas and will further expand into Laos, Burma and...
Most motorcycle travellers don’t think of staying in luxury hotels, but there’s nothing wrong with spoiling yourself with a bit of five-star luxury every now and then. That’s exactly what Extreme Bike Tours is offering on their South India Tour next February. The Indian-based company is throwing in a bonus free night in a...
The scenery in Nevada will forever be associated with some of the greatest road trips man has ever undertaken. Long,...
Three Australian companies have merged to form the first nationwide motorcycle rental and tour company. It’s called BikeRoundOz, which has...
Fans of motorcycle travel documentaries should keep an eye out for the African Motorcycle Diaries series coming soon to the Travel Channel and other networks. Unlike Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor on their Long Way Down, this is a one-man, unsupported trip and it’s a 55,000km circumnavigation through 34 countries....
Dakar Rally racer Simon Pavey will lead a three-week motorcycle tour across the top of Australia from east to west...
At the age of just 21, Lithuanian-born world traveller Jacob Laukaitis has done more motorcycle travel than most veteran riders....
Women are getting into motorcycle tours, says Extreme Bike Tours boss Zander Combe, so he has introduced a female-only tour of southern India in January 2016. “We get a few enquires from ladies and they always ask the same question – Is it just boys going? I think that more...
If you’ve ever dreamed of riding timeless Royal Enfield motorcycles on the world’s highest roads in the Himalayan mountains, now...