Encyclopedia Of Motorcycle Touring

All you need to know about Motorcycle Touring!

- Sandeep Goswami

 TOURING long distance on motorcycles is a doable adventure within reach of any reason-ably skilled rider. The word ‘reasonably’ here is the qualifier and rather ambiguous when used this way. What actually is a reasonable skill level? What is contained within such a skill set? And what all does one need to become a safe motorcycle tourer? How far is really far in terms of fatigue impairing the rider’s ability to ride safe? How do high temperatures of summer affect the tourer? Conversely how bad is riding in very cold weather? Questions that come to mind of any rider thinking of riding long distance. This here will be a series of articles that contain collated and ordered topics in the form of a motorcycling tourer’s encyclopaedia, a one-stop source that answers all those relevant questions, both for an existing and the aspiring long distance motorcycle tourer. And as is appropriate Part 1 begins with ‘You the Rider’.

YOU – THE RIDER