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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.

Alabama Motorcycle Roads: Little River Canyon National Preserve

Although I live in Sweet Home Alabama, my home state is not known for such sweet motorcycling roads, if a sweet road is defined...

Vermont Motorcycle Rides: Over the Green Mountains

Story and photography by R.W. Ballou I live in the southeast corner of Vermont, where the hills are steep, the valleys are narrow and the...

West Virginia Motorcycle Rides: Escaping Washington D.C.

One of the best things about living in Washington, D.C., is how easy it is to get away from it. Life in the nation’s capital...

Best Washington Motorcycle Roads: Highway 20

Story and photography by Susan Benton Motorcycling has been my husband's passion since he was a teenager in the 1960s. I began riding as a...

Vermont Motorcycle Rides: Exploring Covered Bridges

Growing up in New England, my dad taught me many useful lessons about exploring back roads. For example, the fact that you don't know...

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...

Remembering 1947 Hollister

(This article was published in the August 2006 issue of American Rider.) Fifty-three years after Brando’s wild ride, we went looking for Johnny. You know,...

Riding Around: America On Tour – U.S. Tour Operators Directory 2006

Looks like 2006 will be a great year out on the roads. Rider’s 2006 list of domestic tour companies is the longest ever, and...

Motorcycle Travel in Washington State

story and photography by Jerry Smith The state of Washington’s tourism board had this idea. Invite a group of motojournalists to ride around and report...

2006 Triumph Bonneville T100 Cross Country Motorcycle Tour

story and photography by Clement Salvadori “How come you’re in Post?” he asks. Sensible question, as Post is not really on the main road to...

Motorcycle Travel in Palouse, Washington

You’ve got to love Thomas Wolfe, the truly great American writer who died at 38 in 1938, but not before he passionately put thousands...

Day-Tripping on the Lincoln Highway in Iowa

Early in the last century, one highway paved the way—literally and figuratively—for the roads we enjoy today. More patchwork quilt than a continuous ribbon,...

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...

Exploring the Oregon Coast

Each of the previous two years, my three buddies and I have taken week-long trips into the high desert of eastern Washington and Oregon...

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...

Riding the Heart and Soul of Montana

A whole lot of nothing. That’s what we expected to see on our journey across eastern Montana—flat and drear, sagebrush and maybe the occasional...

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...

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