Adding a Bike & Rack on the Back of a Motorhome
How much weight can you add to the rear of a motorhome?Your camper or motorhome will be plated with Unladen Weight and the Gross Vehicle Weight allowed. The difference between them is the allowable payload. Your payload is gas bottles, onboard water, awnings, barbeques,... and whatever bike you sling on the back.More importantly, you may well exceed the maximum@permitted rear axle load.@@This is how a bike on the back of your motorhome will affect things.
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Road Tripping Across Europe
Exploring new countries, roads and cities on your bike can be as challenging as it is exciting. It@ll take a bit of forward planning, but when you@re touring Europe on the open road it@ll be well worth the effort. Here@s a quick guide to arranging your European adventure.Planning your routeFirst step is deciding where you want to visit. The more route planning you do at this stage the better. Try to plan at least two routes for each branch of your journey as you might not always be up for t...
First Time Motorcycle Touring
The First Time Motorcycle Touring Page
So you fancy touring Europe: the Alps, the South of France perhaps?@ But you have never been further than a Sunday blast with your mates, so crossing the Channel into Europe and 'they ride on the right and speak foreign'-land is a bit worrying. This page is for you.
And the first and biggest piece of advice - stop worrying about it, just do it. Just book the ferry and look out your passport. It is not as scary as you think it will be.Seriously, as long...
Highlights of Peru Motorcycle Tour with Compass Expeditions
Once you start travelling it is hard to stop, it is like reading the first chapter of a good book, and you just have to finish it. Travel, well there is no last chapter or page, it is infinite, its only controlling factor being time and money.Nowadays travel is relatively easy with a myriad of companies offering everything from beach to adventure holidays. You can fly, go by road, ship or train, or pedal cycle or just walk, the choice once again being controlled by time and finances.Over here...
Top 10 Rides in South America
DESTINATION SOUTH AMERICA: THE CONTINENTS 10 TOP RIDES
@(as chosen by Compass Expeditions)All rides are included as part of www.compassexpeditions.com extensive range of tours, the most comprehensive offered in South America.South America is a continent of absolute superlatives, the world@s greatest rainforest, largest rivers, longest unbroken chain of mountains, all exist here, and we haven@t even mentioned the worlds largest salt flats, driest deserts and fantastic ruins.San Martin de los ...
The real dirt bike in Northwest Vietnam
Bike tours to the rugged region of Vietnam offer a more direct experience of the life of its people.Motorcycle tours in Northwest Vietnam
It is probably not everyone@s cup of tea, but discovering Vietnam@s rugged and scenic northwest on a motorbike is more than an exhilarating experience. Those who have undertaken it say it enables them to see @life as it truly is for the Vietnamese people.@@ Dramatic landscapes and sweeping panoramas become more direct and intense when the visitor is not en...
Motorcycle Touring with SatNav, Skype, and email
By Neil FJ1200
SatNav, Skype, email, and surfing. From your motorcycle on the road......
So you like the idea of motorcycle touring, but would also like to have with you some of your @Gadgets@, eh ?
Well as a Motorcycle instructor I have a 2 camera system for filming my students and using as a teaching aid. I have a P.D.A. running sat'nav' ...
Freight Your Bike Abroad
An increasing number of bikers go touring far, far abroad. Often on a Hire Bike. Many would prefer to take their own bike but don't know how. Some Freight Forwarders now run dedicated Motorcycle Shipping departments. Roddy gives an introduction......
By Roddy Warriner, James Cargo
Bike shipping is more cost effective than most people imagine. Many tour operators abroad are happy to ...
How to Crate a Bike for Air Transport
By Roddy Warriner, James Cargo
Preparation
The bike must be clean and free from leaks.
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Some countries require that the bike be steam cleaned with disinfectants prior to arrival.
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If fitted, Scottoiler valves must be turned to the Off position.
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The First Dracula Rally of Transylvania in June 2006
Eastern European Vintage Bike RallyTransylvania and the Carpathian mountains are the very best parts of Romania. We crossed into Romania at a tiny border point where we had to wake up the single Romanian guard and headed north to the Ukrainian border and the remote Maramuresh region. I love this region and in a lot of Transylvania it is charming and has the feel of Britain as I remember it in the 60's.We stayed 2 nights in a farmhouse and when we left on the second morning our hosts apo...
Motorcycle Tour on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
With 11-day motorcycling tour in Ho Chi Minh trail in total 18 day trip from Hanoi to Saigon, this motorcycling grading of tour is considered as Moderate to challenging by Active Travel AsiaVietnam motorcycle toursThe Ho Chi Minh Trail was the supply line used by North Vietnam to link North and South Vietnam during the American War. Soldiers, ammunition, and supplies were carried by hand, bicycle and truck for hundreds of kilometers through the otherwise impenetrable jungle that covered ...