Thanks, very curious about the small side track that the "off the mainstream routes" ADV riders will take.

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Just to clarify, a Chinese 125 at 10 bucks a day was the level I was thinking of ... and I'm not physically able to ride around the world, but I do want adventure and could manage a week or so of hard terrain and wild camping.

It hasn't been hard to find information about these kinds of trips once I knew what I was looking for, but when I started the thread I'd only read stuff from people who had done very large / long trips.

10 bucks a day you would be a back packer
a gallon of gas in Colombia costs 3 bucks Canadian I dont know about other countries down here, wild camping here is out of the question for security reasons
to risky getting robbed, they have camping but it is on private property ten bucks a day

10 a day for the motorbike rental, not 10 a day for everything.

My view:
Get good information about the area you want to travel in. Find interesting places. And map those as destinations. Not towns. It works in small scale and large scale.

I larger scale. One example is Pablo.
He does not go to Ushuaia and tick the box.
I almost every video, he is explaining an interesting place. And tell about the history.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...XnJDkjfKbgGlCC


In small scale: I just did a 6 day trip along N2 in Portugal. Most people drive it in 2 days and see just tarmac. I read a lot before. And mapped many places of interest. Close to the road, and some requiring a detour.
I have tried to just ride (e.g through France) and hope to find nice places by luck. But it does not work. Some times you can get lost and up in some wonderful place. But you miss most of them, if you do not know about them.

I have traveled France twice. With opposite approaches.
a) A lot of POI planned. Places that I wanted to visit
b) Just drive through an look for something interesting/beautiful

The difference was huge. I will not use method b) again. It only works if
1) Your main goal is to get from A to B
2) Your main joy is to ride your bike, and you do not care about the area you are passing

One time I took a small group on a guided bike tour in my home area. And showed them interesting places and we road nice road. Their reaction was: Wow !! We would never have found this without you. They should still have reached theris goal (A HD group meeting, but without all those memories)

You would not end up in places like these. If you did no know what you were looking for:

https://www.roadtripsaroundtheworld....lage-portugal/

https://www.dangerousroads.org/europ...ad-france.html

https://www.dangerousroads.org/europ...-napoleon.html

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attracti..._Piedmont.html

Those are my way points. Not big cities.

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I planned to ride Ruta 40 in Argentina. But Covid 19.....
I started with a presentation of the 100 interesting places around the route. and took my time to create a GPX file with all of the. And than I cal select and build a route based on that.

The other way to do it. Go to one end of the road. Follow the road. And drive as far as you can every day. And celebrate when you reach the other end. Yes!! I did Ruta 40. That is not for me.

But I have no opinions about how others do it. That is up the every one to do as they want. I just answer the question about how I do it. And I do not claim that anything is right or wrong.

Whan planning a trip, finding "out of the way" places is not easy. What resources have folks used?

For me, reviewing ride reports is one major resource; here on HU and AdvRider. Another resoure to find some good routes includes iOverlander. After that, it's been moreso resources that I chance upon while traveling. Asking about where to go locally, being open to suggestions from local folks, and looking at the map and following that interesting road that is not the main highway. Local folks have given me a good number of interesting places to explore, so having time available for these options makes a trip more interesting. Moto rental agencies promoting travel to foreign travelers are good for the couple of times I had the opportunity to utilize this resource.

I've tried Tripadvisor and a few other similar web sites, but they are more oriented towards the main tourist attractions and motel promotion. They are helpful, but those locations and experiences are not the memorable and unique ones of a trip.

It is a challenge to plan a trip that includes off the beaten path places. What additional planning resources are good, anyone??

Maybe Im a bit oldschool but I often use a guidebook, Rough Guides preferred or Lonely Planet. Then I read trip reports and follow other riders blogs and pick up advice and ideas from them. Talking to other travellers can also be useful. I have also been given a lot of great advise (and some not that great too…) from locals, and Airbnb hosts.

I have also simply googled something like «top ten attractions in….wherever Im heading» or «top ten things to do in….» Something interesting always pops up!

Staying in cities and towns of a certain size theres often a thing called «Free walking trips of….» Then you just join in and walk around with a local guide for 2-4 hours with a group of others. And I hand over a little tip in the end, around 5 € or so - but its all up to each and everyone if you want to tip and how much.

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you won't find a moto at 10 bucks a day in Colombia Try 30 a day
Bicycle 10 bucks a day

That's not too bad I suppose if it's something like an XR150, certainly a lot easier than shipping a bike to Colombia for a week and then shipping it back!

A quick interweb search tells me that $15/day is doable for a genuine Honda 125 in Vietnam, so if one were willing to go down to a Chinese bike it might be lower than that ... or if I were to go to Cuba I've been promised the use of an MZ 250 for free, lol

Just a quick comment regarding the original topic

I prefer to ride costal roads, usually very twisty with beautiful views.

Now that looks very interesting......

Most of my best memories are from the random unplanned (to a degree) actions/moments while on a 'planned' trip.

This would be a great and obvious focal point on a SA trip, thanks for posting..!!

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