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So you want to ride China, which is a sentence most Asian motorcycle tour operators laugh at If you landed here, you’ve probably asked three tour companies about riding a rented bike in China and gotten three variations of “no, but we can do Tibet”. Fair. The Tibet departures that thread through foreign-led group permits

So you’ve done the Bolaven Plateau and now someone’s told you about the northern loop If you landed here, you’re probably a repeat Southeast Asian rider who did Pakse and the Bolaven in the south of Laos a few years back, heard the stories about the coffee-and-waterfall loop, and filed Laos under “done”. It isn’t.

The question you probably can’t ask your riding buddies If you landed here, you’ve probably already ridden solo in Europe or North America, you’re eyeing an Asian trip, and you’ve run into a wall of well-meaning but useless advice from male riders who’ve done Thailand once and think they understand the full gendered experience. You

Why this question deserves a straight answer in 2026 If you landed here, you’re probably one of three kinds of rider. Either you already own a LiveWire or a Zero and you’re wondering if the machine you’ve grown to love at home can actually handle a week around Doi Inthanon. Or you’re Thailand-curious, EV-curious, and

The chain is going to betray you before anything else on the bike If you landed here, your drive chain is probably already squeaking at you in your dreams, or the mechanic at your last service gave you a look that suggested he’d seen better specimens in a scrapyard. Chains are the single most abused,

So your mesh jacket stopped doing the job If you landed here, you’ve probably just come back from a Himalayan ride where somewhere around 4 500 metres your premium mesh summer jacket turned into a wind tunnel, your fingers stopped responding, and you spent the last three hours of daylight praying for a tea stall.

The 23 items that actually fit in a pannier pocket If you landed here, you’re about to do a two-week ride across northern Thailand or Vietnam and you’re wondering whether the tiny white plastic box your pharmacy sold you under the label “first aid kit for travel” is going to do anything useful when you

The insurance conversation you really don’t want to have from a hospital bed If you landed here, something told you the cheap travel insurance you bought alongside your flight might not do what you think it does when you’re the wrong side of a Lao dog at sixty kilometres an hour on a wet mountain

So you want to fly your bike to Thailand If you landed here, you’re probably staring at your own motorcycle in the garage, thinking it would be a glorious idea to ride it around Thailand, Laos and Vietnam for two months, rather than renting a tired Kawasaki Versys in Chiang Mai. You’re not wrong. You’re

So you want to ride Mongolia next summer If you landed here, you’ve probably been staring at a Mongolia map for a month. Terelj, Khövsgöl, the Gobi, the arrow-straight empty tarmac of Central Asia that stops being tarmac fifty kilometres outside Ulaanbaatar. You’ve got questions about May versus July, about river crossings, about whether the