Further reading
Moto touring guides
Motorcycle Diaries – a fantastic resource for best roads in Europe
Vietnam Coracle – best guide for riding Vietnam, an amazing resource.
Ride Magazine – superb collection of routes for Portugal, Spain, France and Germany
Ride the Highlands – A good site about riding Ontario
Motorrad Strassen – German official motorcycle route, a lot here if you delve in using Google Translate
Moto Route – Excellent guide to the best motorcycle routes in Romania
WikiLoc – huge collection of best routes with photos that really help you understand why that road is recommended
Forums
Most motorcycle forums were sadly abandoned when Facebook Groups arrived however the ones that remain are superb libraries of information compared to groups where information is not indexed and soon lost.
ADV Rider – this forum is so big many of the best ride reports are buried under the more contrived. Here are a couple I found interesting and inspiring.
- Ride for Smiles – From a horrific car accident the author sets off in his second life to see how far he can ride a bike that turns into a 5 year journey.
- Around the world in 800 days – Another 5 year RTW ride that ran same time as above but is different in every way.
- Angola, its not like they said – the best ride report I have ever read. If you only read one, choose this.
- Pakistan on a GS 150 – incredible scenery and a great ride report
- Solo trip to Mongolia on a 125 – amazing adventure on the Mongol Rally
Ride Asia – a motorcycle forum that has inspired some of my riding in SE Asia, friendly with no attitude or pay wall unlike GT Rider forum.
Moto Bloggers
I’m removing most of my Blog Roll because so many people stopped updating their blogs.
I’ve noticed some of these blogs have developed geo fencing, clearing your cache sometimes helps. Some are abandoned too as people choose to post to social media which is a shame as Facebook is not indexed by Google so everything shared there is lost within a few days.
Reviews
99.9% of review blogs/channels are now actually ‘content creation’ blogs/channels. They don’t review items merely create content from the press release info not saying anything to upset distributors but here is one completely honest independent motorcycle gear test site.
Video
I’ve come to dislike the many motorcycle Youtubers who spam their boring videos on Facebook groups and never look at any of them however here are two channels I like.
High production values with often excellent content. However some of the stuff published is still just bullshit.
Just videos of engine sounds. No nonsense stuff in a world of Youtuber crap.
