Further reading
This page used to be a blog roll, back when those things were in vogue. Now very few riders blog and I am slowly deleting sites that have not been updated for a long time however I am have also added sites that I have found helpful in planning rides so this page lives on.
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 – You can find a collection of well researched riding routes for UK, Portugal, Spain, France and Germany here
Motorcyclist Map – Amazing resource for motorcycle touring USA.
Ride the Highlands – A good site about riding Ontario.
Motorrad Strassen – German official motorcycle touring route and a lot more here (needs Google Translate).
Bucket List Norway – Perhaps the best guide about motorcycle riding roads in Norway.
Moto Route – Excellent guide to the best motorcycle routes in Romania which I found very helpful for my tour there.
WikiLoc – huge collection of routes with photos that can help you understand why some roads are recommended.
Motorcycle Colorado – There are many best road sites for USA but I found this one very helpful for my Colorado ride.
Penticton Motorcycle guide – A guide for part of British Columbia which I hope to revisit in future.
Terraxplor – besides having interesting ride reports Sean offers many guides to riding in SE Asia.
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 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. Inspired me to ride Oman.
- 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. Inspired me to ride Pakistan.
- Solo trip to Mongolia on a 125 – amazing adventure on the Mongol Rally.
Ride Asia – a motorcycle forum that has inspired some of my early rides in SE Asia. Friendly with no attitude or pay wall unlike the better known GT Rider forum which should be avoided.
Horizons Unlimited is a great resource for overland riders.
Moto Bloggers
I’m slowly deleting inactive blogs from my Blog Roll however some I have retained here despite being abandoned because they have information about riding destinations not found anywhere. (Note a couple of these blogs seem to now be geo fenced).
Reviews
99% of YouTube review channels are merely ‘content creation’ channels. They don’t review items, they quote press release material and carefully never say anything negative to upset distributors. Here is an Australian independent motorcycle gear test site that really tests gear and tells it like it is.
Video
I don’t watch much on YouTube other than old music video clips. I find most ‘on bike’ riding videos boring or annoying, particularly the 360 panning video that has become popular of late.
However there are a few channels I think are higher quality.
High production values help lift this channel and host Ryan can be very witty but don’t take anything here seriously and remember the site is run by a major motorcycle accessories store so you are being marketed to.
MC test ride videos with just engine sound. Usually I’m not going to watch POV bike videos but Schaffs are different as you will see and I also like how there is no talking and then Schaff will share some meaningful insight via text.
If you want to know good places to ride in Australia then check this channel out.
Touring of Japan with just engine sound. Shows many of the places I posted about when I lived there. (Tip – with non English channels turn on CC and set to auto translate) Consistently good quality footage albeit still with some of the unavoidable flattening of the landscape that action cams produce but probably best Japanese bike vlogger.
