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Rider has been bringing you the best in motorcycle touring, travel, and adventure since 1974. Click the map below to access motorcycle rides by state or click the globe for international tours. Use the drop-down menu above to access shorter Favorite Ride tours and rides by region (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West). All rides include a route map, and rides since 2021 include a link to online REVER routes with downloadable GPX files.

California Motorcycle Rides: 250 Miles Through Kern County

story and photography by Clement Salvadori A new motorcycle sits in the garage, and I want to take a short motorcycle ride through Kern County...

Madagascar Motorcycle Tour

story and photography by Jeremy Bullard I never set out to ride around the world. I changed my mind in Peru because I was having...

Canada to Argentina Motorcycle Tour

story and photography by John Wellburn Dear Rider magazine, On November 22, 2003, I left my hometown of Williams Lake, British Columbia, with no more than...

Edelweiss Bike Travel— Discover our Earth Expedition 2011

December 1, 2010 -- For the last 30 years, Edelweiss Bike Travel has operated more than 1,600 tours with nearly 30,000 people all over...

Keystone State Byways: Exploring Pennsylvania's Northern Tier

The topography appears to have been created for the benefit of motorcyclists. Mountains and rivers carve winding routes for sport riding. Rolling hills set...

Michigan Motorcycle Rides: Mackinac & Lake Michigan

story and photography by Cliff Yankovich My wife and I needed a short break from our day-to-day life operating a retail store. Julie had the...

Great Motorcycle Roads: Iowa Byways

story and photography by Susan Benton A perfect day trip or weekend destination for riders from Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison and Des Moines is Dubuque, Iowa....

Rider Alaska and Yukon Tour, The Last Frontier

Final Cell Phone Blog Most photos by Genie Tuttle Penultimate evening, Talkeetna, Alaska. Denali’s ulu-knife top is sheathed in ever-present clouds, then clears suddenly and slices the...

Rider Alaska & Yukon Tour Part II

Cell Phone Blog Day 10 Miles: 1900-plus (Dawson City Group, 2600; Roger, lost count) New friends: 10 Border crossings: 4 Rain riding: 8-10 min. Amazing sunrises: 4 (asleep for sunsets...

Rider Alaska and Yukon Tour with Ayres Adventures

“The last foreign country still friendly to Americans,” read the first, but far from last, hand-scrawled sign we would see expressing the many interesting...

Motorcycle Travel: Alaska's Denali Park at Twilight

(This "Favorite Ride" was first published in the June 2012 issue of Rider Magazine.) It was already noon, yet I still had 10 hours of...

Oregon Motorcycle Rides: Hells Canyon and Beyond

story and photography by Sean Coker We begin our Oregon motorcycle ride in the heart of Nez Perce territory, in Union, Oregon. Young Chief Joseph...

Italian Bikes in a German Town: Aprilias in East Texas

by Steve Natt; photography by the author and Ted Phillips It was with more than a modicum of skepticism that I fielded the invitation to...

Alaska Motorcycle Rides: Denali National Park & Preserve

story and photography by Ed McClure It was already noon, yet I still had 10 hours of daylight left to ride 180 miles on one...

Maine Motorcycle Rides: The Rangeley Lakes Region

story and photography by Mike Benham Within five miles of each other are two scenic overlook areas on Maine’s spectacular Route 17, a State and...

Scenic Utah Motorcycle Touring: Three Backroad Byways, One Harley

I rather like Green River, a town in central Utah...for about 10 hours max. It is roughly 100 miles from anywhere else, and has...

Hawaii Motorcycle Rides: Exploring The Big Island

Story and photography by Joe Nelson Arriving on the Big Island of Hawaii, I carried some typical expectations—great climate, sun-drenched beaches, arresting sunsets, even a...

21st-Century Pony Express

Wanted: YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS, not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, and willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 a week. Advertisement...
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