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10 tips for riding in Morocco

MCN, 21 January 2010 16:16

Jane Holmyard and Graham Saunders, at ToursAreUs are regular riders in Morocco. So we've asked them to provide some tips to make sure a motorcycle trip to North Africa goes as well as possible. Planning a tour abroad? Check out MCN deals on ferry tickets 1. When heading for a less than crowded and hot empty countryside make sure you carry ...

5 tips for touring Australia

MCN, 20 August 2009 12:04

David Grist from H-C travel (www.hctravel.com) has provided some handy tips for touring and traveling in Austrialia by motorcycle. 1. Bill Bryson once said that even for an American, Australia is huge, so don’t bite off more than you can chew. Plan your days, plan your fuel stops. Or take a self-guided tour which will let you make the most of your ...

5 tips for touring New Zealand

MCN, 20 August 2009 11:57

David Grist from H-C Travel (www.hctravel.com) has provided some useful tips for traveling in New Zealand. 1. Allow time to get over jetlag, you have just crossed 10 time zones in just over 24 hours. Not many of us get the chance to go to New Zealand more than once in our lives, so don’t rush it. I know of ...

5 European travel tips from Toursareus

MCN, 31 July 2009 12:40

Graham Saunders has ridden around the world and has organised countless tours with his tour company ToursAreUs.co.uk, so we asked him to provide some European touring tips. 1. In every country, they always have different driving and road policies. Make sure you always follow road and traffic regulations. Many countries may be similar in implementing these laws, but for safe driving, you ...

Top 5 touring mistakes

MCN, 31 July 2009 11:59

If one nation knows about distance riding, it’s the US. So it pays to listen when they’re doling out the tips. We picked this up from the Seattle Examiner’s Phil Herring : I can ride from LA to NY in... 3 daysTouring is expensive in both time and money, so it's easy to be too ambitious about the time required to ...

“Drunk shepherds said they’d kill me in the morning”

MCN, 21 July 2009 16:57

Bike designer Nick Graveley swapped his VFR800 for an XT660R and set out to ride 30,000 miles from his mum’s house in England to his dad’s in New Zealand. Here he remembers the night some of the most hospitable people in the world turned into the scariest. “After six years of designing motorcycles and clay modelling all around the world, ...

Travel advice: Planning your first European trip

MCN, 19 June 2009 16:05

Q. I've just got my first big bike, a Suzuki Bandit and I'd like to go on my first tour of Europe for a week or so. Where would you recommend I go? I was thinking of going on my own, is this wise?Fin Duss, via email A. Don¹t be tempted to do too much on your first trip. Every ...

Travel Advice: Avoiding de-hydration

MCN, 19 June 2009 11:42

Q. I am going to be riding some long distances in Southern Spain and Morocco on my GS. I'll be wearing light-weight textile gear but I'm concerned about overheating and dehydrating while I'm out riding. Can you offer any advice?Pete, via email A. The best advice we can give you is to stop regularly to take on water-based fluids to ...

Kevin Sanders' latest R1200GS adventure crosses into China

MCN, 12 June 2009 09:29

Motorcycle adventure travel specialists Kevin and Julia Sanders have crossed the Torugart Pass and entered China on their research expedition for the inaugural London to Beijing GlobeBusters adventure tour that takes place in 2010. Along with teammate Mark Hamilton, the British couple – both founders of GlobeBusters Motorcycle Expeditions and also holders of Guinness World Records for Fastest Circumnavigation of ...

GlobeBusters motorcycle adventurers reach Everest

MCN, 11 June 2009 10:35

In another landmark ‘First’ for Kevin and Julia Sanders, founders of GlobeBusters Motorcycle Adventure Travel, news has come through that the couple reached Mount Everest base camp last week, while riding their BMW R1200 GS motorcycles. They were accompanied by team mate Mark Hamilton. Kevin and Julia reached the base of the world’s highest mountain during their current epic motorcycle ...