Greetings from Ride Expeditions HQ! Time for a quick pit stop to fill you in on all the wild and wonderful happenings since our last chat.   Let’s pick up where we left off… We ended 2023 with a BANG and man, we’ve had an action packed start to 2024! We’ve had numerous departures of our Tribal Trails in Vietnam, Tomb Rider in Cambodia and the World’s End Tour in Patagonia. We’ve also been out blazing trails in Colombia, cruising down the scenic Garden Route in South Africa, and Toby & Rob have recently returned from our first-ever ..read more

So let’s start our review of the Husqvarna Norden 901 with a quick recap … When KTM bought the Husqvarna brand from BMW back in 2013, they were only interested in one thing. Although the German manufacturing giant had developed some interesting and innovative motorcycles in the six brief years that they owned the historic Swedish marque every single one of them was dropped as soon as the Orange giant took possession. They had the name and that was enough. Ten years later, the iconic brand has been revived in a way that only KTM could have done, with race success across the wo ..read more

For our 2023 KTM 890 Adventure R Review we need to start with a bit of a history lesson.   Way back in the Spring of 2019, KTM introduced their all-new adventure bike, the 790 Adventure, a machine that was both much anticipated and ground-breaking in equal measure. While the other manufacturers were busy chasing the premier class market trying to chip away at BMW’s world domination, the 790 marked a completely different direction.  Against a backdrop that started in the late 1990s with the equally ground-breaking 620 Adventure, the new middleweight built on all the ..read more

Motorcycle Tour Tips – Getting the Best from your adventure So you’ve finally decided to do it.  You’ve always wanted to go on a motorcycle tour and this year is the year it’s going to happen. But before you head out on the trip of a lifetime –  hopefully with Ride Expeditions – here’s a few pointers on how to get the best from your tour, both before you set off and while on tour. This is going to be an epic trip, so let’s help you get it right. We ride in some truly amaxing places - and you can join us! #1 Preparation, preparation, preparation So hopefully you’ve picked a tour t ..read more

At Ride Expeditions, we are addicted to motorcycle adventures. From our very first tours in Cambodia, to our ever popular Himalayan rides and our epic journeys across South Africa and Mongolia, we just love riding bikes and exploring all over the world. But there can be few journeys more exciting than one that takes you to the end of the world. Buts that’s exactly what our Patagonia adventure does – travelling from Pucón in the North of Chile, all the way to Tierra del Fuego and Ushuaia at the very bottom of South America – The End of the World Tour is truly spectacular from start to finish ..read more

A MOTOCROSS HELMET FOR ADVENTURE RIDERS? Helmet choice for motorcyclists is a very complicated decision. With quite so many brands, styles and designs available, not to mention price ranges that go from £50 to well over £500, picking the right helmet is not an easy task. But for the combination of safety, style and value for money, the Alpinestars Supertech M10 helmet is right up there among the best that we’ve ever worn or tested. Lightweight, well designed and packed with the latest technology to keep your head safe, Alpinestars M10 is everything you’d want in a premium helmet – great for ..read more

So, you have finally taken the plunge and booked up for a motorcycle tour. The date is in the diary, you’ve booked your time off work and you are excited as hell. But now comes the tricky bit – what riding kit do I need to take on the trip?  At Ride Expeditions we are happy to give our riders all the advice they need to make sure that nothing is left back at home, but sometimes a good list is easier to follow. Clearly the kit you need will vary with the type of tour and the type of riding, but we’ll try to cover the different options. Either way – here is our Motorcycle Touring Gea ..read more

So let’s starting our Husqvarna Norden 901 review with a quick recap … When KTM bought the Husqvarna from BMW back in 2013, they were only interested in one thing. Although the German manufacturing giant had developed some interesting and innovative motorcycles in the six brief years that they owned the historic Swedish marque every single one of them was dropped as soon as the Orange giant took possession. They had the name and that was enough. Ten years later, the iconic brand has been revived in a way that only KTM could have done, with race success across the world b ..read more

At Ride Expeditions, we are all about adventure motorcycling. Since way back in 2012 when we ran our first tours in Cambodia, that’s been our mission and we love it. And now over a decade later, we run tours across three continents, from Patagonia to Mongolia, Vietnam to India, Africa to Colombia. Our riders come from all over the world too, united in a desire to have the most epic adventures on motorcycles. It’s that simple.  But wherever we tour, wherever we ride, there’s always something we leave behind. There’s always something that one of our riders brings along that makes us thin ..read more

DIRT BIKE TOURS This blog is all about Ride Expeditions’ Rides – the bikes for dirt bike tours.   OK – you’ve spent years of riding the trails and tracks in your home country with your mates, but after reading yet another incredible story about an dirt bike adventure in your favourite magazine, not to mention watching countless video on similar trip on You Tube, you’ve finally decided to take the plunge and book up your own epic motorcycle adventure. But what bike are you going to ride, and where are you going to ride it? We’ve got an amazing range of locations from Cambodia t ..read more