Cult of Dualsport

Throwdown! Can any mere mortal ride 3,500 miles in two weeks?

Great Lakes Dual Sporters has maps and GPS downloads for 3,500 miles of trails in Michigan. Someone should take them up on the challenge.

Big loops, little loops and linear options. Ride as much as you want, how you want.

Camp it. Motel it. Campground it. Day Trip it. All up to you. We figure two weeks straight riding to cover it all and doubt any mortal can do so.

Dirtopia

Need I say more? Nah. I'll let them speak for themselves.

Dirtopia is a free encyclopedia of off-road trails and destinations that anyone can edit. Our goal is to document every single off-road trail in the United States. We're off to a good start, but we need your help. 

Roost: Wild Rye.

Maps for Motorcycles, French edition

Tire-maker Michelin also does maps.

Michelin now have a special guide for motorcycle riders who ride in France. Called "80 Virees a Moto", meaning "80 motorcycle routes", this 544 page publication is stuffed with information on the nicest itineraries to ride with your motorcycle.

Roost: Bikes in the Fast Lane.

Thanks, Old Guy

Motorcycle Roads Northwest and Oregon Motorcyclist. Western Oregon motorcycle roads. Also see Open Road Journey.

Roost: Old Guy.

Adventure Maps: Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains

Searching for more maps today and found this.

Concise information on some of the sweetest rides on the planet. The six sequential laminated maps fit perfectly in your tank bag window and are designed for easy 'on the road' use. They complete a loop which begins and ends in Asheville, NC and provide an excellent overview of Western North Carolina & some lesser known treasures in Eastern Tennessee.

Map 1 - Asheville, NC to Boone, NC
Map 2 - Boone , NC to Greeneville, TN
Map 3 - Greeneville, TN to Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Map 4 - Great Smoky Mountain National Park to Deal's Gap
Map 5 & 6 - Deal's Gap, Cherohala Skyway to Asheville, NC

This site also has maps of the same area, but seems to be geared toward street riders.

Can't vouch for the quality of either, of course. Caveat emptor!

Irvine to Corona the hard way

I wish I'd known about this route back in 1984. Heck, I wish I'd owned something besides a CB650 in 1984! I rode that bike on a big loop - Vegas - San Diego - Corona - Big Bear - Vegas. It was a great ride, but would have been much better going through the Cleveland National Forest...

Irvine to Corona the hard way (Dual Sport Ride) Share your motorbike routes @ MotoWhere.com

ADAR

Get the GPS routes for the All Day Adventure Ride in Ontario, Canada.

Organized for the ADVENTURE RIDER, the ADAR was created by members of the Ontario Dual Sport Club (ODSC). The ADAR is aimed to provide Adventure Riders of all types who own STREET LEGAL motorcycles, an all day adventure of paved roads, fire roads, trails and off road terrain riding experience. Riders follow GPS based navigation routes and experience the skills in dyverse riding and navigation.

CMG Online sent a reporter to cover the event.

Moto Where?

1,116 routes and growing. Australia, UK, USA, Germany, Vietnam, etc. Check out this one for starters: Lake Elsinore Dual Sport Loop.

MotoWhere helps motorcyclists discover the best places to ride.

Whether you're looking for offroad tracks, fast and twisty mountain passes, or long distance cruising, MotoWhere puts the best rides right on your map - worldwide.

To make this possible, MotoWhere combines the Google Maps infrastructure with a simple interface allowing you to literally draw your favorite motorcycle roads straight onto the map.

If you ride with a GPS unit, you can also directly upload routes into MotoWhere, as well as downloading routes you plan to ride into your GPS.

See Dave for GPS info

BikerDave, wearing his GPSDave disguise, posts a compilation of GPS mapping resources for Canada.

Here's a list of GPS mapping resources. While the tools are mostly generic, and will work for anywhere, the mapping data is concentrated around Canada. Things are changing fast, so this is by no means an authoritative list, but it does have everything I know about.

Mile by Mile

Free road map itineraries. Here's a sample: Highway 1 to the Oregon Border. They have an interesting business model, and it must work because there are tons of routes here...

We give you links in exchange for your labor. You drive a highway, at least 100 miles long, and we create a highway itinerary from the information. You get exclusive links on the web page and we direct web traffic to your web site from the intinerary.