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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.

Québec Adventure: Striking Gold in Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Unpainted asphalt with the texture of a Parmesan cheese grater twists and undulates through the mist-shrouded spruce forest. This is prime moose country, and...

Chasing Dinosaurs in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming

When the dinosaurs roamed the earth, they were tiny and titanic, terrifying and titillating, fleet footed and even flabby. Sounds like me at various...

The Santa Fe Trail: Hunting Geocaches on a Historic Kansas Route

Crossing Kansas can be an enlightening or boring trip depending upon your perspective. For me it was a chance to ride and geocache the...

Touring South Africa’s Cape Peninsula, Big Game Country and Winelands

Arriving at Bucklands Private Game Reserve conjured up Jurassic Park déjà vu. An electric fence loomed overhead and the massive metal gate wore a...

Historic and Scenic Routes in Western Nebraska

The first transcontinental railroad, first transcontinental automobile highway (the Lincoln Highway), the Oregon Trail, the California and Mormon Trails and the Pony Express riders...

Sea to Shining Sea: Coast-to-Coast for the Heck of it

I love these long hauls, love looking at the beauty, and occasional ugliness, of this great nation, love stopping at all the historical markers...

New Jersey Escape: Riding Into The Gap

When I want to put the congestion and stress of the 21st century behind me, I fire up my Kawasaki Nomad and tour western...

Edelweiss Bike Travel Dishes up Nonstop Curves on the Mediterranean Alps Extreme Tour

Do you dream of feasting on tons of awe-inspiring twisting roads linked directly to one another, hour after hour, day after day? Hidden gems...

USA Tour Companies 2016

You’ve heard about guided motorcycle tours in Italy, Africa and the Swiss Alps. But there are also many domestic touring companies right here in...

Camping in the New York Catskills

Nothing is more exciting than taking off on a motorcycle trip for several days, and nothing adds to the adventure and challenge more than...

Back to Alaska—A 40th Anniversary Ride

Mosquito hordes clustered around me as I sat on my Suzuki Water Buffalo contemplating how to extricate myself from the damnable predicament I found...

Hide Ride: Escaping to Some of the Loneliest Country in California

I sent my grandson a pup tent and told him to sleep in the backyard. Sometimes a guy’s got to hide, I said. When...

Riding a Quasi-Antique Classic in Arizona and New Mexico

Ancient Native American shadows and echoes are scattered across central and northeast Arizona. Cruising this region, Carol, my wife, and I are exploring the...

Circling the Sierra: A Three-State Ride Around Snow-Covered Mountains

Itching for a Northern California adventure, my longtime riding partner, Patrick, and I mull over the possibilities. It’s too early in the season for...

Meandering the Texas Hill Country

What better synonyms are there for riding than “motorcycles” and “Texas”? No matter your type of riding, the Texas Hill Country—the south-central area in...

Tour Review: Leod Motorcycle Escapes’ Mugello & Italian Backroads

Why should you tour Italy on a motorcycle? With the Alps in the north, the Apennine Mountains running down the middle and nearly 5,000...

Edelweiss Bike Travel Pearls of the Adriatic Tour Review

As our jetliner began its lumbering descent over Dubrovnik, Croatia, I noted from the window the contrast between a modern suspension bridge hanging by...

Pacific Northwest Odyssey: Mountains, Coulees and the Palouse on a Tri-State Ride

Whenever possible, I like to take a longer, more scenic route between La Grande, Oregon, and Richland, Washington, than my regular Interstate commute. Two...

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