MOST MOTORCYCLISTS PROBABLY HAVE “Tour Tasmania On A Motorcycle” written on their bucket list somewhere. If you don’t have a bucket list (I don’t), maybe you should start one and just write “Tour Tasmania On A Motorcycle” on it, then don’t bother writing anything else. That is all you need.
I have recently returned home from my first trip to Tassie, more than 20 years after I first decided that I would go “one day”. Yeah, I know, what took me so long? I guess life gets in the way.
I’m going to assume that most readers probably have the same intent as me. You’ll get to the apple isle someday but may have not found yourself ready to go yet. The point of this story isn’t to convince you to go, or to provide you with a travelog to sell you on the idea, but to help you plan to go. Because once you start to plan it, you’ll probably actually do it.
But in the planning, there’s some big decisions to make that will affect your entire holiday, so it’s important to get the basics right to ensure maximum bang for your buck.
There’s also no single right way to have a motorcycling holiday in Tasmania. There’s lots of ways you can do it, and different approaches will suit different people. So, before you start planning your holiday of a lifetime, here are a bunch of things you should consider in order that your holiday outcome is the best it can be.
What type of holiday do you want?
There’s three ways to consider this. You can have a full-bore riding holiday, a sightseeing holiday, or something in between. We had 5 full days in Tasmania including a day off the bikes in Hobart, so 4 days of riding. They were reasonably big days, and we averaged well over 400km a day. It was the “something in between” type of holiday, but we didn’t really nail it. We had a great time, and rode plenty of great roads, but we feel like we missed out on seeing some things we’d liked to have seen.
I can tell you 5 days is not enough to do Tasmania properly if that’s the type of trip you are planning. If stopping to look at interesting things and taking pictures isn’t your thing
