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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.

Day 6: Patagonia Adventure Tour

(Read the dispatch from Day 5) It’s hard to leave the Tres Lagos paradise, but the road beckons and the heart of Patagonia lies ahead....

Day 5: Patagonia Adventure Tour

(Read the dispatch from Day 4) In Patagonia there is rest for the weary, and we were glad for it. The first real work of...

Day 4: Patagonia Adventure Tour

(Read the dispatch from Day 3) The day begins early with breakfast eaten, bags packed and the group on the dock at Puyuhuapi Lodge by...

Day 3: Patagonia Adventure Tour

(Read dispatch from Day 2) Our third day in Patagonia begins with frost and fog in the little town of Futaleufú. It’s a short but...

Day 2: Patagonia Adventure Tour

(Read dispatch from Day 1) South we go! When I last reported on this Patagonia adventure, we were in Bariloche, Argentina, after riding west across...

Day 1: Patagonia Adventure Tour

Today we ride! After mucho paperwork at MotoAventura in Osorno, Chile, the company that arranges the motorcycles for RIDE Adventures, we hit the road....

Riding Sardinia and Corsica with IMTBike

It was our second morning in Sardinia. After a bountiful breakfast we were riding along 30 miles of coast road that could cause California’s...

Motorcycle Travel in the Appalachians

“I think I’m lost.” Twenty miles had passed since departing the only hotel in Cumberland, Kentucky, that had a sign hanging in a broken window...

Georgia Great Roads

The following is an excerpt from the article North Georgia Colors printed in the April 2007 issue. Tear it out and take it with you,...

South Dakota Escape

As a young boy, my stamp collection included a green 1952 three-cent commemorative of Mt. Rushmore. The four presidential faces gazing wisely across America...

Crisscrossing the Lower Colorado River–Hoover Dam to the Oxbow Bridge

For more than 35 years, a contingent of aging Yuppies that includes Yours Truly has been convening at Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley...

The Blue Ridge Parkway from the Backseat

Plenty of riders have sung the praises of the Blue Ridge Parkway. But I’m here to give you the straight story from the passenger’s...

Edelweiss Bike Travel Touring Center Alps | Tour Review

The Bucket List is a funny, heartstring-pulling movie about two terminally ill men who complete a wish list of experiences before they kick the...

New Great Roads Website Now Available

Rider magazine has recently launched a new Great Roads section on its website that focuses on local and international motorcycle rides, roads and travel...

Reservoir Roads: Exploring the New York Southern Highlands

When I go on an extended motorcycle tour, I like to ride back roads with plenty of twisties to challenge me, in an area...

Dreaming of Africa: Ayres African Southern Cross Adventure | Tour Review

It was pitch dark, and the air buzzed with strange insect sounds and animal calls over the quiet ticking of the Land Cruiser’s cooling...

Southern Utah Splendor

For three decades, my buddy Ted and I have taken long rides from our homes near Portland, Oregon. Years ago, we exhausted all the...

Southwest Touring Ride on a 2013 Victory Vision Tour

"Last minute…but epic!” The attention-getting email was from Manny Pandya, the younger of the Amazing Pandya Brothers, two quick-witted gearheads who handle press relations for...

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