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 route. These routes can be used or altered as you like. Have fun with it!

Trips

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

Coming soon

Norway (june 2022) and Lake District (july 2022)

A 3 week journey through

New Zealand

A three week trip from janauary 2019 on my own and a rented KTM 1090 Adventure R, covering the north and south island. Routes are on- and offroad.

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

Drôme & Provence Drôme & Provence (France)
Scotland Scotland
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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