A holiday trip on motorcycle. Perfect: your holiday starts at the front door.
But choosing for a holiday on motorcycle means that you will ride long distances, that you have to take luggage along, that you will ride in mountaneous areas, and maybe that you will go camping, and those are not things you do everyday.
Therefore, here some avdice for when you decide for a vacation trip on your bike.
Whether you go touring for a day or a weekend, or want to have a vacation riding on your motorcycle, sometimes it is convenient to be able to cover long distances on your motorcycle.
Is that possible with every motorcycle or isn't it? What do you have to do to stay for hours in the saddle without getting tired or getting a sore butt? How many miles can you cover in an day? This page tries to formulate the answers.
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Riding long distances on motorcycle...
The Ardennes, the Vosges, the Black Forest, the Alps, the Pyerenees, the Carpathians, Snowdonia, the Picos Europa,
the Sierra Nevada, the Appennines, the list is almost endless: mountain regions.
Ideal for motorcycle riders, but if you are used to ride in a flat country, there are some new aspects.
How do you brake when riding downward, and how do you brake when riding up? What is the ideal line
in a switchback or hairpin? How do you cope with fear of heights?
Here are some tips about what's different for motorcycle riders in a three-dimensional landscpae as opposed to a flat country.
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Motorcycle riding in the mountains...
When you go on a camping trip on motorcycle, there are a lot of questions to answer: what kind of tent do you need? Which sleeping bag? What do you take with you, and what kind of luggage do you need to get all your stuff along?
How do you cook? This page tries to help you answering these questions.
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Camping with a motorcycle...