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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.

Two Loops Around Two Peaks: Riding Around Mt. Olympus and Mt. Hood

Mountains make for good riding. The roads go up and down and around, with all sorts of curves and dips. Some mountains you can...

Riding the Lincoln Loop: Mountain Passes, Small Towns and Wildlife in Montana

Living in Montana, known by some as “The Last Best Place,” it is easy to find great roads for a short run or a...

Retracing the Steps of History: The Sisters’ Centennial Ride

“Woman can, if she will.” – Augusta Van Buren It all started with a very modest idea: gather a small group—say 10 women—and ride across...

Chasing Shakespeare: An Elizabethan Tour of the American West

The Plan “…then begins a journey in my head…” (Sonnet 27) Bourbon and conversation, biscuits and gravy, movies and popcorn–some things just seem to go...

Riding the Trans-Mass Trail: Off-road Motorcycling in Massachusetts

The Trans-Mass Trail isn’t an “official” route. You won’t find any Scenic Byway signs like you see along the best twisty two-lanes. Instead, this...

IMTBike Portugal & Southern Spain Tour Review

Not all motorcycle tour companies are alike. Moreover, the tours offered by a single company typically differ dramatically in many ways. So, sitting in...

Cape Cod Cruising

Most Americans have heard of Cape Cod, and a large number have been there. Much of the Cape is astonishingly beautiful, with great beaches...

2016 Yamaha FJR1300ES | Road Test Review

What do a state park, an international border crossing, a dirt road and a coastal highway have in common? Together they make up the...

Riding The Shuswap Area of British Columbia, Canada

I am waiting at the border between the U.S. and Canada, mentally patting myself on the back. For one thing, despite the fact that...

Baja Enlightenment: Riding Mexico’s Lower California Peninsula

Our experience begins at the Tecate border crossing, a 45-minute ride east of San Diego. One by one we pull our motorcycles up to...

Overland Adventure to the Overland Expo

There was a time not too long ago when I looked at riders on massive “adventure” bikes, loaded down with what appeared to be...

Twisty Roads and Redwoods in Northern California

On a warm summer morning, my wife and I departed on a four-day trip that would take us on some of the finest motorcycle roads...

Crossing Colorado

I was loafing along the two-lane U.S. Route 6 on the BMW R 1200 RT as the road crossed the low rolling hills of...

Arkansas Getaway Motorcycle Tour

I’d been looking forward to burning up some hills and curves in western Arkansas, but for the moment I was riding a stretch of...

Riding Minnesota’s Historic Bluff Country Scenic Byway

Ah, autumn, mid-October. Cool mornings, mild midday temperatures, low winds—perfect. We set our sights on a new-to-us scenic byway in Minnesota. The route is not...

Riding to the Grand Canyon During National Park Week

In Northern Arizona, mid-April spells the beginning of the thaw of the snowpack in mountains, and the corresponding bloom of the hardiest of wild...

Wonderful West Texas

The Lone Star State is huge, and this land of cattle, oil fields and tall pickups seems even bigger from the saddle of a...

A Lap Around Middle Earth: Ecuador Freedom’s Andes, Amazon and Pacific Coast Tour

From the hot, humid Amazon rainforest, where we floated down the muddy Rio Arajuno in a motorized canoe and fed sugarcane to monkeys in...

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