Guided Motorcycle Tours

102 tours found

3 Day Enduro Tour: Chiang Dao and Pai

Chiang Mai, Thailand

3 days

Three days and about 395 kilometres of mostly dirt, running Chiang Mai to Chiang Dao to Pai and back with the off-road content rising from around 70 per cent on day one to 85 per cent on day two. The trails are a mix of jungle single track, gravel climbs, ridgelines and farmland tracks past hill tribe villages, and the guides split the group where skill levels diverge so faster riders and cautious ones both get a day they enjoy. Bikes are professionally modified Honda CRF300Ls with reworked airflow and exhaust, unrestricted ECUs, revised gearing and suspension and enduro tyres. Let's Ride pitches the tour at novice to advanced riders and charges 24,000 baht per rider, which covers the bike, full armour, accommodation, breakfast and lunch and the guiding. An optional damage waiver runs at 600 baht a day.

THB 24,000 / person

Adventure

Essence of Southern Spain – Andalusia Motorcycle Tour

Andalusia, Spain

9 days

Nine days out of Málaga, seven of them riding, covering 1,546 kilometres of Andalusia at a daily average of 250 to 350. IMTBIKE built this one for riders who cannot spare a fortnight: the route still reaches Granada and the Alhambra, Córdoba and its Mezquita, Seville, the white towns of the Sierra de Cádiz and Ronda on its gorge, but does it in a week of riding rather than two. The roads are the point. Day two runs the Costa del Sol before turning inland onto the highest paved highway in Spain through the Sierra Nevada; day four crosses the Sierra Morena, which the company calls the region's best kept motorcycling secret; days six and seven work through the Grazalema passes. Bikes are BMWs from the G310R up to the K1600GT, and nights are spent in state-run Paradors and a few boutique hotels.

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Mountain

The Mae Hong Son Loop

Chiang Mai, Thailand

8 days

The operator's Tour A, an eight-day week built around the Mae Hong Son loop with a Saturday arrival at each end. Riders land, collect their bikes and eat together on day one, run a safety induction and a group-chosen day ride on the Sunday, then spend Monday to Friday on the loop itself through Pai, Mae Hong Son, Mae Sariang and Doi Inthanon. Riding days are moderate at 155 to 233 kilometres, which leaves room for waterfalls, hot springs, a geyser, cave rafting, Karen long neck villages, temple gardens and a boathouse lunch on the lake. The company quotes 1,984 bends on the way out and 2,070 on the return, courtesy of the Thai Highways Agency. The published price is 64,189 baht per person all-inclusive, with discounts of up to 25 per cent for groups above five riders.

THB 64,189 / person

Scenic

Golden Triangle Loop

Chiang Mai, Thailand

8 days

The operator's easier week, described on its own site as Scenic Riding Heaven and built for riders who want less arduous mid-week days than the Mae Hong Son loop demands. The route runs Chiang Mai, Tha Ton, Mae Sai, the Golden Triangle and Chiang Rai, following the Myanmar border through lakes and mountain roads, with short crossings into Myanmar and Laos and a longtail speedboat on the Mekong. Attractions listed along the way include the largest cave system in Thailand, an elephant camp, a hillside of seven temples, the Three Tribes Village, the opium museum, temple ruins and tulip fields when they are in season. The week follows the standard shape: Saturday arrival, Sunday induction and group ride, Monday to Friday on the loop, Saturday departure. Published price is 64,189 baht per person all-inclusive.

THB 64,189 / person

Adventure

Andalusia – Motorcycle Touring at Its Best

Andalusia, Spain

10 days

Edelweiss runs this Andalusian tour as a ten-day round trip from Málaga with eight riding days, and it is deliberately short on distance: 1,235 to 1,761 kilometres in total, with daily stages between 135 and 304. The trade is time. Two rest days, in Seville and Ronda, sit inside the itinerary rather than at the end. The route climbs from the coast to Granada with the Alhambra below the snowline of the Sierra Nevada, crosses the olive country around Jaén, works west through Antequera and El Torcal to Seville, and finishes through the Sierra del Chaparral and the Montes de Málaga back to the sea. Hotels are comfortable middle-class places with local character, luggage travels in a van, and the bike list runs from a Honda NC750X to a BMW R1300GS Adventure.

€5,390 / person

Scenic

The Nan Loop

Chiang Mai, Thailand

8 days

Tour C in the operator's range and the one it sells to sport riders: wide sweeping bends, very little traffic and, in its own words, knee sliders optional. The loop runs Chiang Mai to Phayao, on to Nan for two nights with a 491-kilometre day trip out from there, then Uttaradit and a fast return to Chiang Mai. There are a few sights along the way, ancient temple murals and a weaving village among them, but the operator is honest that the appeal is the roads themselves and how far they sit from anywhere tourists normally go. The bike list skews accordingly toward the Kawasaki Versys 650, Honda CB650R, Suzuki V-Strom 650 and 1050 and the Ducati Monster. Published price is 64,189 baht per person, all-inclusive of meals, fuel, rooms, entrance fees and transfers.

THB 64,189 / person

Coastal

Bangkok to Hua Hin Beach

Bangkok, Thailand

3 days

A three-day, two-night run down the western shore of the Gulf of Thailand and back, 459 kilometres in total and the shortest guided tour in the Ride in Asia range. Day one is the longest at 182 kilometres, leaving the Bangkok office at nine and working south through the Ao Mahachai mangrove study centre to a beach hotel at Chaosamran in Phetchaburi. Day two is a gentle 78 kilometres taking in Pran Buri Forest Park, the monkey-covered hill at Khao Chong Krachok and the Hua Hin night market. Day three returns 199 kilometres to Bangkok by way of the hilltop palace at Phra Nakhon Khiri and the Ayutthaya-style stupa at Wat Khok Kham. Guided, the price is 39,200 baht per rider; the same trip self-guided is 23,200 and a pillion seat is 8,600.

THB 39,200 / person

Coastal

Bangkok to Phuket

Bangkok, Thailand

7 days

Seven days, six nights and 1,879 kilometres down the whole length of peninsular Thailand and back, from the Bangkok office to Kamala Beach on Phuket by way of Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan and Phang Nga, returning up the Andaman side through Ranong and across to Hua Hin. This is the biggest tour in the Ride in Asia range and the daily distances show it: two days exceed 380 kilometres and the third day out is 474. In exchange the route takes in mangroves, red cliffs, wooden bridges, limestone formations, the Rattanarangsan Palace at Ranong, the Cicada Market at Hua Hin and the Tha Kha floating market on the run home. Guided, it costs 96,600 baht per rider; self-guided is 59,100 and a pillion seat is 25,700.

THB 96,600 / person

Scenic

Bangkok Northeast Loop Through Isaan

Bangkok, Thailand

5 days

Five days, four nights and 1,452 kilometres in a loop out of Bangkok into Isaan, the northeastern region most motorcycle tours in Thailand skip entirely. The route runs through Khao Yai National Park to Nakhon Ratchasima, up through Khon Kaen to the Mekong town of Chiang Khan, back south through Phu Hin Rong Kla National Park to Lop Buri, and home via Ayutthaya. Distances are substantial, with day four covering more than 500 kilometres across two legs, but the payoff is a stretch of Thailand where the roads are quiet and the tourist traffic thins to almost nothing. Ride in Asia publishes the guided price at 82,200 baht per rider, with a self-guided version at 50,100 and pillion seats at 10,700. Several national parks along the way charge their own entrance fees, which are not included.

THB 82,200 / person

Off-Road

Trails of the Sahara and Beyond: The Ultimate Moroccan Off-Road Adventure

Morocco, Morocco

9 days

Nine days, six of them riding, on a big-bike off-road loop from Marrakesh down the Anti-Atlas and along the Atlantic. Roughly 60 per cent of the route is trail, gravel and sand and 40 per cent tarmac, and Wheels of Morocco are blunt that solid off-road experience on a loaded adventure bike is a condition of joining. The line runs over the Tizi n'Test pass to Taroudant, past the painted rocks near Tafraoute to Icht, across old rally tracks to Guelmim, then out onto the hard sand of Plage Blanche on the way to Agadir. A rest day on the coast breaks the week before the ride north to Essaouira on coastal twisties and single trails and the final leg back to Marrakesh over rocky ground and dry riverbeds. Days run about 220 to 270 km.

€3,100 / person

13 dates available

Mountain

3 Day Mae Hong Son Motorcycle Tour

Chiang Mai, Thailand

3 days

The Mae Hong Son loop compressed into three riding days and roughly 630 kilometres, run clockwise from Chiang Mai through Mae Sariang and Pai. Day one climbs into Doi Inthanon National Park for Wachirathan Waterfall and the Twin Royal Pagodas on Thailand's highest peak before descending to the riverside town of Mae Sariang. Day two is the long one at about 260 kilometres, taking in the sunflower viewpoint at Doi Mae U Kho and the lakeside temples of Mae Hong Son on the way to Pai. The last day is the famous Pai to Chiang Mai road, more than 700 bends in the first hundred kilometres, with a guided walk through Chiang Dao Cave before the return. Let's Ride aims it at road riders of any experience level and prices it at 24,000 baht per rider, with pillions at 12,000 and support car seats at 10,000.

THB 24,000 / person

Desert

Desert and Atlas Motorcycle Tour

Morocco, Morocco

9 days

Nine days based out of Marrakesh, seven of them in the saddle, on a loop that trades the High Atlas for the Middle Atlas cedar belt before dropping to the edge of the Sahara. Riding days run roughly 125 to 280 km and are almost entirely sealed, with only a token stretch of optional gravel. The route takes in the lake at Bin El Ouidane and the Ouzoud falls, the forests around Azrou and their Barbary apes, the old Foreign Legion tunnel on the run down to Errachidia, and the dunes at Merzouga, where the night is spent in a desert camp. Homeward legs link the Todra and Dades valleys, the kasbah at Ait Benhaddou and the 2,260 m Tichka pass. Wheels of Morocco run it with a guide on a bike, hotel accommodation, a luggage vehicle once five riders sign on, and a fleet spanning KTM 390 to BMW GS.

€3,400 / person

16 dates available

Guided Motorcycle Tours

3 Day Enduro Tour: Chiang Dao and Pai

Essence of Southern Spain – Andalusia Motorcycle Tour

The Mae Hong Son Loop

Golden Triangle Loop

Andalusia – Motorcycle Touring at Its Best

The Nan Loop

Bangkok to Hua Hin Beach

Bangkok to Phuket

Bangkok Northeast Loop Through Isaan

Trails of the Sahara and Beyond: The Ultimate Moroccan Off-Road Adventure

3 Day Mae Hong Son Motorcycle Tour

Desert and Atlas Motorcycle Tour

Guided Motorcycle Tours

3 Day Enduro Tour: Chiang Dao and Pai

Essence of Southern Spain – Andalusia Motorcycle Tour

The Mae Hong Son Loop

Golden Triangle Loop

Andalusia – Motorcycle Touring at Its Best

The Nan Loop

Bangkok to Hua Hin Beach

Bangkok to Phuket

Bangkok Northeast Loop Through Isaan

Trails of the Sahara and Beyond: The Ultimate Moroccan Off-Road Adventure

3 Day Mae Hong Son Motorcycle Tour

Desert and Atlas Motorcycle Tour

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