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One Lap of Tassie: Two-Up Riding in the Antipodes

I'm accustomed to giving the classic "V" sign to other motorcyclists on the road, and getting similar props in return. In California, at least,...

Storming Castles on Edelweiss Bike Tours’ Best of Europe Tour

Booking your first overseas motorcycle trip can be stressful enough, but that first day in the saddle in an unfamiliar place, on an unfamiliar...

Island Whirl: Exploring British Columbia’s Vancouver Island by Motorcycle

It was the middle of the night when Elizabeth’s husband died. Dark still when the funeral home came to take him away. I watched...

Himalayan Adventure: Touring the Upper Mustang on Royal Enfields

Our journey into the remote Upper Mustang area of Nepal began in the paradox that is Kathmandu, with the rattle of traffic, constant blare...

North of the Border: Edelweiss Canada West Tour Review

When considering a motorcycle tour in another country, you may want to visit some place exotic, like Peru or Thailand, or ride legendary, bucket-list...

Edelweiss Mystery Tour 2017

“Are you crazy? Why would you sign up for a motorcycle tour that gives you zero information about where you’re going? Even worse, why...

Roads Less Traveled: Exploring Slovenia, Bosnia and Croatia With Adriatic Moto Tours

It’s a place straight out of a fairytale: deep forests, bottomless lakes, rivers that pour out of gaping holes in the mountainside, waterfalls, crystal...

Motocicletas en Cuba: The Havana Moto Culture

I step onto Cuban soil knowing full-well that I’ll see American classic cars in all their mid-century glory. What I am not prepared for...

First Hope Then Merritt: A Ride Through the British Columbia Interior

When life in the big city on the coast becomes too hectic and I need some time away, a romp through British Columbia’s interior...

Adventures in Paradise: Touring in the Dominican Republic

Life in the USA has become so sanitized, homogenized, standardized and over-regulated that I often feel I was born too late. Especially so if...

2017 International Tour Companies Directory

Every two years, the Rider staff compiles an up-to-date listing of tour companies that operate internationally. We only include reputable companies that offer multi-day, fully...

Sicilian Splendor: Around Mount Etna Tour with Edelweiss Bike Travel

Sure, I could find Sicily on a map, I’d seen “The Godfather” and I’ve eaten my fair share of thick, rectangular Sicilian-style pizza. But...

Six Weeks in Europe on a Bonneville T120, Two-Up

I have been my husband Bill’s pillion rider for 30-plus years, riding a variety of bikes on trips as short as just around the...

Riding a Royal Enfield Through Wild West Africa

How a little touring in England turned into the ride of a lifetime. Buy the bike you want. Never mind what anyone else says. If you love it,...

Tierra del Fuego Motorcycle Tour with MotoDiscovery

High-siding 6 feet in the air, Joaquin and his BMW R1200GS did a graceful 60-mph pirouette in front of me. Flying in front of...

MotoQuest’s Japan Three Island Tour

We knew we weren’t in Kansas anymore when the white-gloved driver briefly stepped off the airport bus after we boarded to pick up a cigarette...

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...

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...

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...

The Best of the Canadian Rockies on the Icefields Parkway

You’ve heard of the legendary pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Well, the Icefields Parkway, aka Highway 93 north in Alberta,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

35 Bucket List Motorcycle Rides

We all have a bucket list of motorcycle roads we’d like to ride before we highside off this mortal coil. Here are 35 recommended...

Riding Zero Avenue in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland

I was riding my Kawasaki KLR650 on a cool, sunny March day. Mount Baker, in northern Washington State, was continuing to be elusive. The...

A Baja Encounter

Here’s what I took away from three weeks on the road, from Arkansas to the middle of Baja, California: You really have to want...
2027 Motorcycle Buyers Guide