Routes & Touring
Where to ride and how to plan it: route guides to roads worth the miles, navigation and planning tools compared, and the touring details — fuel stops, weather windows, gear that survives day five — that trip reports usually skip.
Great Ocean Road Motorcycle Guide, 240 km of Coast
The Great Ocean Road for riders: 240 km of B100 from Torquay to Allansford, the Twelve Apostles, Otways rainforest, wildlife timing, fuel...
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Best Motorcycle Roads in New Zealand
Ten roads worth the trip across both islands, with verified elevations and distances, the southern hemisphere season window and rules for visitors.
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North Island New Zealand on a Motorcycle
The Forgotten World Highway with no fuel for 148 km, the Coromandel coast on SH 25 and the Desert Road, with seasons,...
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Crown Range Road on a Motorcycle
New Zealand's highest sealed through road at 1,076 m, the zig zag hairpins out of Arrow Junction, the Cardrona valley and the...
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Arthur's Pass and the Otira Viaduct by Motorcycle
The 920 m pass, the 440 m viaduct on a 12 percent grade, the higher Porters Pass nobody mentions, plus fuel, kea...
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Milford Sound Road on a Motorcycle
How the Homer Tunnel signals work, where the avalanche no-stopping zone runs, why there is no fuel for 238 km and when...
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Best Motorcycle Roads in India, a Route Guide
Ten roads worth planning a trip around, from the 5,328 m Leh-Manali Highway to the 47-hairpin Nilgiri ghats, with permits, season windows...
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Riding a South Island Loop in New Zealand
The classic circuit over Arthur's Pass, the Haast, the Crown Range and out to Milford, with the season window, fuel gaps and...
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Riding the Western Ghats, Ooty to Munnar
Five Nilgiri ghat roads with 4 to 47 hairpin bends, the run south to Munnar's tea country, monsoon timing and the night...
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Riding Rajasthan, a Desert Motorcycle Route Guide
Jaipur, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur and Udaipur across the Thar Desert — why the season is October to March, the road speeds nobody...
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Zanskar and Nubra on a Motorcycle, Permits and Routes
Ladakh's two great side valleys — the Inner Line Permit rules that decide the trip, the roads into Padum and Diskit, season...
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Riding the Spiti Valley Loop, a Motorcycle Guide
Shimla to Kaza to Manali across a Himalayan cold desert — why to ride it Shimla-first, Kunzum Pass season dates, permits for...
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Khardung La on a Motorcycle, the Real Elevation
The summit sign says 5,602 m, the surveys say 5,359 m. Where both numbers come from, plus permits, the two-day acclimatisation rule,...
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Riding the Leh-Manali Highway, a Motorcycle Guide
428 km and four Himalayan passes from Manali to Leh, topping out at 5,328 m — the season window, the 330 km...
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Riding the Peloponnese, a Motorcycle Loop Guide
A week-long Peloponnese circuit — the Langada Pass over the Taygetus, the Mani tower villages to Cape Matapan, Monemvasia, plus tolls, fuel...
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Best Motorcycle Roads in the Balkans
Croatia's D8, Montenegro's Sedlo Pass, Albania's newly paved SH21, Bosnia's Neretva valley and the Kotor hairpins — plus the border, insurance and...
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Albania's SH20 and SH21, Riding to Theth and Vermosh
Which road actually goes to Theth, what the September 2021 paving changed, the quieter SH20 through Kelmend to Vermosh, and the season,...
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Motorcycling Bosnia's Mountain Roads Safely
The M17 Neretva valley and M18 into Sutjeska, plus the mine safety rules that actually matter — official BHMAC figures, where not...
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Durmitor and the Tara Canyon on a Motorcycle
The 120 km Durmitor ring over Sedlo Pass at 1,907 m, the Tara canyon and its 1940 arch bridge — season, fuel...
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Riding Croatia's Adriatic Highway, the D8 Coast Road
The D8 runs 643 km from the Slovenian border to Montenegro along Croatia's coast — the sections worth riding, the Peljesac Bridge...
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Best Motorcycle Roads in Germany, a Rider Guide
The best motorcycle roads in Germany, from the 484 km Alpine Road and the B500 Black Forest ridge to the Mosel and...
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Mosel Valley Motorcycle Guide, Koblenz to Trier
Ride the Mosel from Koblenz to Trier: the B53 river bends, the Calmont slope at Bremm, Eifel and Hunsruck loops, plus German...
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Best Motorcycle Roads in France, a Rider Guide
The best motorcycle roads in France, from the 720 km Route des Grandes Alpes and its high cols to Provence, Alsace, the...
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Alsace Wine Route Motorcycle Guide, 170 km of Vines
Ride the 170 km Route des Vins d'Alsace with the 88 km Route des Cretes above it: the villages worth stopping in,...
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