Welcome at Emile's Motorcycle Adventures

Riding my motorcycle and planning motorcycle trips is my passion. This site contains the most recent trips I have made alone or with my motorcycle friends. Next to some nice photo's and video's, I have also shared all GPS routes. These routes can be used or altered as you like. Have fun with it!

Trips

Europe: Wales The Swiss Alps, Norway, Drôme & Provence (FR), Germany, Ireland, The Alps & Dolomites, Lake District (UK), Scotland, South England
Non-Europe: New Zealand and San Francisco

A 7 day journey through

Wales

A seven day motorcycle trip through Wales, starting from the ferry in Hull. Passing Snowdonia and Brecon Beacons national park.

Pure wilderness

Norway

An eight day trip from june 2022 with my friends, covering the south of Norway. Routes are mainly onroad, but also cover some offroad routes (TET).

Hairpin heaven

The Swiss Alps

A 9 day solo motorcycle trip through the Swiss Alps, starting from the Netherlands. Next to 13 passes, I also rode parts of the Swiss and France TET.

Europe's best mountains

The Alps & Dolomites

A six day trip with my friends in the Alps & Dolomites with Innsbruck as starting point. The journey to Innsbruck was done by night train from Dusseldorf, including the motorcycles.

A legendary quote by Jeroen C. when asked what we were doing in the UK

"Because we have nothing to do else..."

Other Motorcycle trips

New Zealand New Zealand
scotland Scotland
Drôme & Provence Drôme & Provence (France)
Lake District Lake District (UK)
San Francisco & Northern Pacific Coast Highway San Francisco & Northern Pacific Coast Highway
South England South England
Ireland Ireland
Germany Germany

Weekend trips

All starting in the netherlands, the weekendtrips below are short 2, 3 or 4 day trips for a weekend of fun!

Friesland (the Netherlands)
Belgium Ardennes
Luxembourg
Eifel (Germany)
 

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My Motorcycle

Suzuki 1050 XT Suzuki V-Strom 1050 XT (2020 model)

Quick Reference Card - Suzuki V-Strom 1050 XT

uick Reference Card - Suzuki 1050 XT

 
The User Manual for the Suzuki V-Strom 1050 XT is pretty thick, so I created a two-pager Quick Reference Card to tape under the hood of my top case. You are welcome to download it. Availible in English and Dutch.

My Motorcycles over the years

YearMotorcycleModelDriven
2004Suzuki GSX 600F19952.500 km
2012Honda NC 700X201224.500 km
2015Suzuki V-Strom 1000201574.400 km
2019KTM 1050 Adventure R (rental)20186.700 km
2020Suzuki V-Strom 1050 XT2020Counting

Tools

gpx2ov2

Convert your gpx to a breadcrumb of POI's you can import into your TomTom (to be able to go offroad).

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Generate Travelplan

Use this tool if you want to create a nice travelplan from your GPS route, including absolute/relative time and milages, overnight stays, gas stations and other usefull information.

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