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1 month ago | 
advrider.com | Steve Thornton
Welcome again to Photos of the Week. We begin with a number of shots from @Donbrom, who was riding in the Svaneti region of northern Georgia earlier this week. Our Featured Photo shows a group of stone villages and defensive towers that are sure to catch the eye. Our submitter was riding a rental bike, and we’ll let him tell you about it below. These photos were taken this week in the Svaneti Region of northern Georgia. I hired a baby Kato from Patric at Onward Motorcycle Tours in Tbilisi.
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1 month ago | 
advrider.com | Steve Thornton
Once again we present Photos of the Week, and we begin today with something that we didn’t expect to see. Although we do keep an eye out for farmers on motorcycles as a matter of course (we’re really just anxious to see what ATGATT means to an agriculturist), we didn’t expect to be so callously advised to do it. What do they think we’re doing with our time, if not watching for farmers on motorcycles?
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1 month ago | 
advrider.com | Steve Thornton
No helmets, short pants, and blindfolds for the passengers: not exactly a traditional state of readiness for a motorcycle ride, but it makes a terrific Featured Photo for our newest Photos of the Week page. Submitted by @Larry, it’s a shot of a “fun-filled weekend norh of Hanoi whereby Minsk enthusiast expats celebrate all things Minsk.” The blindfolded passenger operates on instructions shouted back by the pilot and tries to hit a target with a thrown innertube. “Very few crashes,” Larry says.
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1 month ago | 
advrider.com | Steve Thornton
Hello, ADVrider-readers, and welcome. Here’s another set of photos submitted by our loyal correspondents, and if not loyal, at least generous, which is all we need. We begin with a Featured Photo that caught my eye right off the bat. Submitted by @Peter640, it’s a shot taken “somewhere up in the Highlands of Iceland in 2019, as my bike made its journey across from the Canadian Arctic Circle to the European Arctic Circle.
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2 months ago | 
advrider.com | Steve Thornton
Hello and welcome to another week of photos from our adventurer-contributors. We begin with a Featured Photo from @Coloradogoose, who parked his 2024 Royal Enfield Bear 650 next to a “still frozen Strawberry Reservoir in Utah, south of Heber City,” a few weeks ago. Something about the last vestiges of a Utah winter hanging on made us want to honor this image. Just bear with usHere’s another shot of a bear, but this one’s a little more intimidating, though maybe not dangerous.
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2 months ago | 
advrider.com | Steve Thornton
It’s time for Photos of the Week, once again, and we start off this time with a lovely shot of Ger at the Yukon sign, taken a few months ago by @Flyred, who told us that it was Ger’s first long ride – Seattle to Deadhorse. We like the shot enough to call it our Featured Photo for a number of reasons: We don’t often get pictures of women who ride; the sign is interesting for all the bits and pieces, and it’s well composed and attractive. But we were curious: was she in fact the rider?
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2 months ago | 
advrider.com | Steve Thornton |Harvey Mushman |Mike Botan
Whether you believe official bureaucracy-generated inflation rates or whether you put more stock in first-hand observation of pricing at your local grocery store and gas pumps, one thing is for sure: A lot of riders feel that life in general has gotten more expensive. In turn, that means travel is also more expensive, and most of us have less money for such fun things. In particular, accommodations have gotten a lot more expensive.
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2 months ago | 
advrider.com | Steve Thornton |Harvey Mushman |Mike Botan
If you’re looking to get inspired, we’ve caught news of a good deal for you. Remember Olivier de Vaulx, the photographer who published that collection of ADV travel work last year? (See our review here). Now, de Vaulx has teamed up with Butler Maps to offer a bundle that should motivate you to hit the road. For years, Butler Maps has been the go-to for motorcyclists planning a serious trip. See rtwPaul’s interview with the founder here.
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2 months ago | 
advrider.com | Steve Thornton |Harvey Mushman |Mike Botan
You can tell that the motorcycle industry in general agrees with ADVrider’s assessment of the Royal Enfield Himalayan 450—it’s a winner. In the months since its debut, we’ve seen the aftermarket manufacturers gear up to bring out truckloads of kit for this machine, even as Royal Enfield itself hit the market with tons of stuff for the bike. SW-Motech launched a lot of product for the bike already, and now we see competitors Hepco & Becker have done the same.
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2 months ago | 
advrider.com | Steve Thornton
Welcome to Photos of the Week. We begin with a shot you didn’t expect: a Harley chopper so classically and neatly done that I couldn’t resist it. In today’s world of overdone and ridiculous customs, this is a neat example of what made the brand famous. Extended springer fork, rigid frame, molded custom seat, sissy bar, and upswept exhaust pipes. It’s not too much or too little; in fact, if a chopper could be said to be unpretentious, this is what it looks like.
