Desert Rats Motorbike Tours

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About

Desert Rats runs small-group motorbike tours out of Ouarzazate on a deliberately unusual fleet: ten Cimatti Scrambler 125cc and five Cimatti Bobber 50cc tuned to 125cc, all street-legal and maintained in-house. The light bikes are the whole idea. The Bobber can be ridden on a standard car licence, and what the company asks for is some riding experience rather than a motorcycle endorsement. Groups are capped at twelve riders plus a guide, the support vehicle carries a full medical kit, and guides hold medical certificates. Navigation runs off a smartphone loaded with Outdooractive tracks so riders can set their own pace. Desert Rats is part of Motor Adventures, which has operated in Morocco for over 25 years.

This listing was compiled from publicly available information. Moto Mass is not affiliated with Desert Rats Motorbike Tours.

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Locations Served

Africa

Morocco — Ouarzazate

Motorcycle Fleet

Cimatti Bobber 50cc tuned to 125cc (standard car licence accepted)

Cimatti Scrambler 125cc (full motorcycle licence required)

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Active Tours

Mountain6 days

High Atlas Mountains Tour – 6 Days from Ouarzazate

Ouarzazate, Morocco

Six nights and five days of riding through the High Atlas on 125cc Cimatti Scramblers and Bobbers, which is the detail that makes Desert Rats different from every other operator on this list. Around thirty per cent of the route is off-road and seventy per cent winding asphalt chosen for its lack of traffic. The company positions this as its hot-weather tour, because the passes reach 2,700 metres and the mountains stay bearable when the desert does not. Highlights it publishes include forests most riders do not expect to find in Morocco, river crossings, a hike to the 110-metre Ouzoud Falls with its Barbary apes, isolated Berber villages and lunch with a local family. Groups are capped at twelve riders plus a guide, and the Bobber can be ridden on a car licence.

€1,450 / person

Desert6 days

Sahara Desert Tour – 6 Days from Agdz to Erg Chegaga

Ouarzazate, Morocco

Desert Rats' newest route, and the one that gets riders onto the Sahara without putting them on a heavy bike to do it. Six nights and five days of riding, starting in the green valley of Agdz and working out across the dry lake bed of Lac Iriki to the dunes of Erg Chegaga, on the same 125cc Cimatti Scramblers and Bobbers the company uses everywhere. The split is roughly sixty per cent winding asphalt to forty per cent off-road. A night in a traditional Moroccan desert camp and a sundowner on the highest dune of Erg Chegaga are both on the published highlight list, along with the Tamagroute pottery cooperative and its green henna glaze. Twelve rider places per departure.

€1,450 / person

Off-Road6 days

Mountains and Valleys Tour – 6 Days from Ouarzazate

Ouarzazate, Morocco

The most off-road of the three Desert Rats routes: roughly seventy per cent trail to thirty per cent winding asphalt, through the Jbel Saghro and the southern Atlas on 125cc Cimatti Scramblers and Bobbers. Six nights and five days of riding, timed by the company for spring and autumn. The published highlights run from lunar rock formations and bare dry mountains to the green palmeraies of the Draa and Dades valleys, the Dades hairpins and gorge, the Monkey Fingers rock formation, a 2,300-metre pass with the Sahara visible in the distance, a stretch the company calls Monument Valley, and the isolated villages of the Ait Atta Berber tribe. Lunch with a Berber family and a palmerie walk with a local guide are both included. Twelve rider places per departure, and every accommodation on this particular route has a swimming pool.

€1,450 / person