Touring

Douro Valley
N222 Douro Valley Motorcycle Guide, Regua to Pinhao
27 km and 93 bends through the Douro terraces, where the world's best driving road claim came from, and the harvest traffic...
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Country Guides
Best Motorcycle Roads in Spain, a Rider's Overview
Spain's best riding regions compared: the Pyrenees, the Picos de Europa, Andalusia and Sierra Nevada, with road numbers, seasons, tolls and access...
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Mountain Passes
Spanish Pyrenees Motorcycle Guide, the N-260 Axis
The 520 km N-260 Eje Pirenaico, Bonaigua at 2,072 m, Somport and Benasque, plus the Ordesa shuttle rule that keeps motorcycles out...
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Andalusia
Ronda and the Andalusian White Towns by Motorcycle
The A-397, Puerto de las Palomas and the pueblos blancos loop from Ronda, with the road closures, heat and gravel that decide...
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Mountain Passes
Picos de Europa Motorcycle Guide, Passes and Gorges
Ride the Picos loop: San Glorio at 1,604 m, the Hermida and Beyos gorges, Fuente De, plus the Covadonga access rules that...
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Iceland
Iceland Ring Road Motorcycle Guide
Route 1 is about 1,309 km, not 1,322 — the four quarters of the loop, single-lane bridge rules, the season, wind, and...
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Norway
Best Motorcycle Roads in Norway
Sognefjellet, Aurlandsfjellet, the Atlantic Road, Trollstigen and Lofoten — distances, verified opening dates, ferries and why motorcycles skip tolls.
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Atlantic Road
Atlantic Road and Geiranger by Motorcycle
Eight bridges across the skerries and 104 km from fjord to 1,038 m — how the two scenic routes link, the ferries,...
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Norway
Riding Trollstigen in Norway, a Motorcycle Guide
Eleven hairpins on County Road 63 — the 2024 and 2025 rockfall closures, the verified 2026 opening, how to ride it early...
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Ireland
Best Motorcycle Roads in Ireland
The Conor Pass, Slea Head, the Healy Pass and the Sally Gap — distances, character, the 2025 rural speed limit change and...
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Ireland
Ring of Kerry and Dingle on a Motorcycle
The 179 km Ring of Kerry plus the Conor Pass and Slea Head Drive — which direction beats the coach convoys, what...
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Ireland
Riding the Wild Atlantic Way, a Motorcycle Guide
2,500 km of signed Irish coast from Donegal to Kinsale — the five sections, which peninsulas repay the detour, road width, fuel...
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Routes
Best Motorcycle Roads in Scotland
The A82 through Glen Coe, the A87 to Skye, the Cairnwell Pass and the Old Military Road — distances, character and the...
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Bealach na Ba
Applecross and Bealach na Ba on a Motorcycle
The UK's greatest road climb, sea level to 630 m in 6 km of single-track hairpins — how to ride it, when...
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North Coast 500
Riding the North Coast 500, a Motorcycle Guide
516 miles around the north Highlands from Inverness — which direction to ride, single-track etiquette, the Bealach, fuel gaps and the best...
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Routes
Vrsic Pass and the Julian Alps on a Motorcycle
Slovenia's highest pass at 1611 m with 50 numbered hairpins, the cobbled Russian Road, the winter closure, Triglav park rules and the...
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Romania
Riding the Transalpina DN67C, Romania's Highest Road
148 km from Novaci to Sebes over the 2145 m Urdele Pass, with the 2026 CNAIR opening dates and hours, the 20...
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Romania
Riding the Transfagarasan DN7C, a Motorcycle Guide
Romania's DN7C over the Fagaras mountains at 2042 m, with the CNAIR closure km markers, the June reopening, daylight-only hours, bears and...
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Black Forest
Black Forest High Road B500 on a Motorcycle
60 km of ridge road from Baden-Baden to Freudenstadt, the Mummelsee and Hornisgrinde stops, roadworks closures, noise limits and the real riding...
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France
Riding the Gorges du Verdon, a Motorcycle Loop Guide
Both rims of France's deepest canyon, the one-way Route des Cretes rule, the Corniche Sublime, season dates, fuel anchors and when to...
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Col d'Izoard
Col d'Izoard and the Casse Deserte on a Motorcycle
The lunar rock field on the south side, both climbs from Briancon and Guillestre, the season window and the Queyras loop that...
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Col de la Bonette
Col de la Bonette on a Motorcycle, France's Highest Road
What the 2802 m figure really means, both climbs from Jausiers and the Tinee, the season window, fuel gaps and why the...
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Col du Galibier
Col du Galibier and Col du Lautaret on a Motorcycle
One summer-only high col at 2642 m and one that never closes, ten minutes apart. Both sides of the Galibier, the tunnel,...
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France
Riding the Route des Grandes Alpes, a Motorcycle Guide
720 km from Lake Geneva to Menton over the highest passes in France, with the season windows, the sections worth planning around,...
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