TEN MOTORCYCLE TRAVEL TIPS HOW WILL YOU SELECT YOUR TOURER?
“DON'T TELL ME HOW EDUCATED YOU ARE, TELL ME ” HOW MUCH YOU TRAVELLED.
THE PROPHET MOHAMMED, PEACE BE ON HIS NAME
AN YOU TOUR ON an MV Agusta F3 RC? Sure. Should you contemplate touring on an MV Agusta F4 RR? Ah, well, that’s quite another thing…
We get quite a few queries here about the best bike to buy, for a variety of uses. Now I know full well that no matter what I suggest in reply, you are going to go out and buy the red one with clip-ons. Nevertheless, I thought I’d try to put together some suggestions for one of the few areas where I have any qualifications – touring bikes. Please note that this story, except for the paragraph above and a few case studies, is both brand- and model-agnostic. It’s more like a template against which you might like to hold your chosen machine, to see if it fits.
My definition of these bikes is somewhat wider than most people’s would be, and an important reason for that is that motorcycle touring has changed. Once upon a time when you were travelling by bike,
