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Adventure Motorcycle Tours
The best of both worlds — adventure motorcycle tours take you across mixed terrain, remote passes, and epic landscapes that only a motorcycle can reach.
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What counts as adventure riding?
Adventure touring lives between pure tarmac and pure dirt: paved mountain roads linked by gravel tracks, remote passes where the surface changes without warning, and routes chosen for where they go rather than how smooth they are. The bikes match the brief — upright, long-travel machines built to carry luggage over anything — and the days are measured in landscapes crossed rather than kilometres logged. Riders sometimes search for adventure bike holidays and land on pedal-cycle trips by mistake; to be clear, everything on this page is motorcycling.
Where to ride adventure: Spain and Morocco
Southern Spain is one of Europe's great adventure playgrounds — Andalusia's network of legal forest tracks (pistas forestales) lets tours string real off-tarmac riding between the sierras, with mild weather almost year-round. Across the strait, Morocco raises the stakes: Atlas passes, desert pistes, and the kind of remoteness that made adventure riding a genre in the first place. Both destinations run trips with adventure-ready hire bikes and support included.
Bikes, skills and preparation
You don't need enduro skills to start — most adventure tours grade their terrain honestly, and a confident road rider handles the entry level after a morning of standing-on-the-pegs practice. Operators provide suitable machines (typically mid-to-large adventure bikes with crash protection and knobbly-enough tyres) and route options that let mixed groups pick their difficulty day by day. Riders chasing maximum dirt should look at dedicated off-road trips instead.
