December 2020 Archives - Motorcycle Mojo

Adventure Motorcycling Handbook

There is a plethora of information in various books and on the internet about how to ride, what bike is the best, how to outfit a bike for your type of riding – any subject you wish to know about...

Shifting Perspective

Many emotions can arise while navigating through a host of countries and cultures during a multi-month ride She abandoned me in Bolivia. In Uyuni, Bolivia, my girlfriend left. Here, on the edge of...

Vietnam on the Side

Unable to ride a motorcycle, the author thought that the next best way to see the country was by sidecar. She wasn’t disappointed. Almost every traveller to Vietnam knows that the country’s...

Scramble Out of Spain

This rider had to trust his steed to work flawlessly in order to get him out of Spain during the country’s lockdown. In my 12 years as a professional photographer, jobs hadn’t come much more...

ewool Heated Vest

We live in Canada. We all get cold now and then when on the road, but it doesn’t have to be that way. There’s no question that heated clothing can increase your riding time in the spring and...

Mapping Nicaragua

As days turned to weeks of monotonous riding in Central America, Nicaragua threw the author a few twists that made for a memorable ride. Stare at any map long enough, and a visual trick can occur...

Rejuvenating Waxed Cotton

Waxed cotton will provide many years of weatherproof service with a bit of annual maintenance. Next to your motorcycle and possibly your riding partner, the next best thing to bring along when on...

Loving Laos Life

From sleepy islands in the south to jagged karst mountains in the north, this couple fell in love with Laos. The rickety wooden ramp creaked as our Yamaha XT660 rolled along it and onto the bobbing...

Size Matters

I am, frankly, the luckiest guy on earth. This being Motorcycle Mojo’s touring issue, it is chock-a-block of far-flung destinations visited and remote corners of the Earth adventured. With the...

Out of the Ashes of Conflict Rises a Great Ride

The author, a self-professed military history buff, experienced this historic war zone first-hand while riding some amazing mountain roads in the backcountry of the Balkan Peninsula. The savage and...

The Perfect Vessel for Adventure

Trips don’t always go as planned. I’ve always found that the more you plan, the more things will go awry. It’s one of my simple laws of physics: if you build something up too much, it is bound...