Why ride in Romania


Are you starting to look on the map how close you are to Romania? Not yet ? Well…then check out the following post in which, besides the reasons to ride here, you will also find info about how you can arrive to Romania, what to pack and other useful stuff .

[TRIPS][INTERVIEW]Tom Mackay, a scotsman doing a RTW on a Royal Enfield Himalayan

Tom Mackay is a scottish rider who is currently on RTW with a Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle, whose plans were turned upside down last year by the Coronavirus pandemic. Travel restrictions made him spend 4 months in lockdown in Spain, but even so, Tom managed to travel 22,000 km last ...
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[TRIPS][INTERVIEW]Nate Allen doing a RTW on his special prep BMW X-Challenge

Nate Allen is an american rider who has been on the road for some time. In the last 11 months he visited 13 countries, one of them being Romania.At the moment, due to this crazy period with the Coronavirus pandemics, he has been forced to take a break from traveling, ...
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[TRIPS][INTERVIEW] Юрий Манин riding through eastern Europe on a Bajaj

Bajaj is not a very popular brand in Romania, that's why it draws your immediate attention when you see one and especially when you see 3 of them with Ukrainian registration plates. Last year, 3 riders from the Bajaj Ukraine Club travel through our country, so I reached out to ...
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[TRIPS][INTERVIEW]Cristian Huidobro & his Africa Twin, a +138.000Km lovestory

Cristian is a chilean rider that left 3 years ago on his bike, a 2017 Honda Africa Twin CRF1000, towards Alaska. Once he arrived there, he didn't stop, several thousands of kilometeres he ended up in Europe, last year visiting also Romania. We asked him some questions and if you ...
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[TRIPS][INTERVIEW]Shinichi Kobayashi – 250cc are enough to see the world

When it comes to long around the world rides, there is always a discussion about should you go on a big bike or a small one. Of course, the most important is the rider, he or she has to have instilled the will to travel , to discover and explore, ...
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[TRIPS][INTERVIEW]Michael Morrisey – Romania seen through the eyes of an american rider

It doesn't happen often to spot an Oregon registration plate around this parts. This detail triggered my attention when I saw a picture of a foreign rider on the Transfagarasan. The rider's name is Michael Morrisey and he is an american who, after touring Europe, decided to make Romania as ...
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[TRIPS][INTERVIEW]Mateusz Mocydlarz – two times in a row in Romania on a motorcycle

We do not know what's the secret, but Romania is a magnet for Polish motorcyclists. We talked to Mateusz, a 30-year-old Polish who has been here twice in the last two years to find out why many Poles prefer our country. If the first time he was here with a ...
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[TRIPS][INTERVIEW] Iulian Laslau – Elefantentreffen 2018

Moto gatherings are part of the biker's life.A different type of moto meeting is the Elefantentreffen, which takes place each year in the last week of January or the first week of February. If you wonder what's with the name...well...it goes way back, when it all started. Initially the gathering ...
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Champions’ Gala FRM 2017

Saturday, 2nd December 2017, we went to the Romanian Motorcycling Federation Champions' Gala. Besides the awards for the best riders from the internal championships, the Romanian Motorcycling Federation celebrated 90 years of activity, being the oldes federation affiliated to FIM. Also , during the same gala, an awards ceremony for ...
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[Tourist guides][Expenses] Going to EICMA Motor Show in Milano

The reasons to go to EICMA First of all let me tell you why you should ABSOLUTELY go at least once in your life time at this show. - the extreme number of exhibitors from the motorcycling world. Everybody is here for one week. - the extreme number of motorcycles exhibited here + ...
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