Rider Resources

A curated list of the communities, tools, and sites we genuinely recommend to motorcycle travellers. Everything here is something we use or follow ourselves — no filler, no pay-to-play listings. Found something that belongs on this page? Tell us, and we'll take a look.

Communities

Where riders gather to swap routes, ride reports, and hard-won advice from the road.

  • Horizons Unlimited — The original global community for overland and adventure motorcyclists — meetings, forums, and trip reports.
  • ADVrider — The largest adventure and dual-sport motorcycle forum on the web, with ride reports from every continent.
  • Adventure Bike Rider Forum — A friendly adventure-riding community and magazine forum covering bikes, gear, and routes.

Trip Planning & Guides

Tools and guides to turn a vague idea into a plotted, rideable route.

  • Mad or Nomad — In-depth motorcycle travel guides, country crossings, and gear advice from full-time overlanders.
  • Travel Riders Route Planner — Plan your own route, find scenic roads, build multi-stop itineraries, and export a GPX file to ride — free.

From Riders’ Tales

A few of our own stories worth the read before you ride.

  • The Best Alpine Lakes for Motorcycle Adventurers — The lakes worth pointing your front wheel at — and the passes that earn you the view.
  • From Paper to Prophecy: The Lisbon-Dakar “Go Around” — How a route drawn on paper became a ride south, and what the road made of the plan.