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story and photography by Rich Cox Mexico’s Baja California cape is 800 miles long, the fourth longest peninsula in the world. Known as La Frontera...

Exploring Vietnam With Explore Indochina Motorcycle Tours

by Perri Capell; photography by the author and Lynn Brown It was twilight when we pulled into Cao Bang, and traffic was picking up. Digby,...

Experiencing Southern Italy from an Edelweiss Tour Center | Review

story and photography by Bill Stermer Calabria, the region located in the lower foot of the “boot” that is Italy, is a much more laid-back,...

Beach’s Classic Alpine Tour | Review

by Clement Salvadori photography by the author and Sue Salvadori It had been a long day over many glorious miles. Late in the afternoon half a...

Looping the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia

by Peter Starr photography by the author and Thom Tyre Forty years ago I lived in Vancouver and was a successful rock-and-roll radio DJ. Fresh from...

Last-Chance Adventure on the Trans-Labrador Highway

story and photography by Jeff McQueen Are you interested in an exciting dual-sport trip to a remote destination that isn’t 10,000 miles away? Do you...

Great (Mis)Adventure: Six Countries and Garmisch BMW Motorrad Meeting

story and photography by Kevin Ash This was going to need some serious spicing up. You’d expect a weekend gathering of 30,000 motorcyclists in a...

Cabot Trail: Nova Scotia Island Getaway

See if you can name this place. The children in the grocery store speak French to their parents and to one another. The previous...

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...

Calabogie Dreaming: Riding the Lake Country of Eastern Ontario, Canada

A cool, dry breeze blows in from the northwest. It’s a welcome change. Rainfall totals this summer are setting records, and my riding buddies...

Moose Ride: Motorcycle Touring from Vermont to New Hampshire to Canada

story and photography by Dan Bisbee The moose is North America’s largest mammal, and an estimated 7,000 of them call New Hampshire home. They are...

Road to Wisdom: A U.S. and Canadian Rockies Motorcycle Tour

Riding and Life Lessons on a Big Scenic Loop When Don Scott, my neighbor and riding buddy, mentioned he wanted to go on a long...

Wolfe Island and Other Island Pleasures: Motorcycle Travel in New York and Canada

Sunday is my favorite day of the week because Sunday is the day my wife and I get the Harley out, polish it up,...

BMW R1200GS Adventure African Tour and Motorcycle Test

photography by Mark Tuttle and Arnold Debus Since BMW has used the word “Adventure” in the name of this latest big boxer model, as it...

Iberian Moto Tour's Bandolero, Spain Tour | Review

Remember the passage often associated with the beloved postal courier, or postman? “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these...

Motorcycle Travel in New Zealand with Edelweiss Bike Travel

If an extended motorcycle tour in the prime spring and summer months is difficult for you—your career is busiest then, perhaps—and you can’t change...

Brazil Motorcycle Tour with Ayres Adventures

There are 45,000 motorcycle couriers in São Paulo, the world’s third-largest city. On an average day, says Tour Director Mauricio Fernandes, one will earn...

Taking Baja by V-Strom

It was a tolerable day, Kurt and I agreed, as we sat in the shade of a palapa on the sand at Bahia Concepción...

Motorcycle Riding in Northern Portugal with Motocadia Tours

The road rose out of the valley with smooth turns built into the ascending hillsides, climbing, climbing, climbing, the motorcycles leaning gracefully left, right,...

Centopassi: Ducati Ride Through the French Maritime and Western Italian Alps

Riding a Ducati through the Alps is roughly akin to stepping into the swelter of an old-time, biblethumpin’, Holy Rollin’, Glory Be To Everything...

Motorcycle Travel in Mexico's Copper Canyon Nature Park

We were down at the bottom of the canyon, right by the bridge at La Bufa that crossed over the churning, frothing Batopilas River,...

Motorcycling in Morocco: An Iberian Moto Tours Journey

Were I to believe everything on the news, I almost certainly never would have ventured into Morocco. And if I had listened to my...

Sea Fever

The phone rings Friday morning. Hardly ever a good thing. Not this time. It’s friend Paul down there in Redding. He wants to show...

Motorcycle Travel in Vancouver, British Columbia and the Sunshine Coast

I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest long enough to know that if you call a place up here “the sunshine” anything, you’re asking for...

Emilio Scotto's Epic Motorcycle Journey Around the World

Reprinted with permission from Honda’s Red Rider magazine People today often complain the age of adventure is dead, that there are no more frontiers left...

The Nature of Nova Scotia, Canada

“Just go,” Sheila told me. It was my 40th birthday. “Ride, explore, think. Take a week, maybe more. Call once in a while and...

Iran: The Forbidden Country Through a Woman Rider's Eyes

Bring a woman into Iran? You must be crazy!” That was the reaction my boyfriend and I received from two Germans in full leathers...

Riding a Supersport Around the World

Editor’s note: English is Sjaak’s second language after Dutch. In editing his story, I tried to maintain his “colorful” personality without sacrificing clarity. “Why the...

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