This whole site is very much a 'book on the web'. It consists mostly of text, because text downloads fast, and because text is the fastest way of conveying solid information about motorcycle touring.
The idea is that you can download the information and print it out. You then use the print-out both for planning, and to carry with you when you are touring. Afterwards, you can either keep the print-out for next time, or throw it out when it gets too dog-eared and download it again when you need it.
The site is in two sections. One section is free. It's background information about touring. It's there, to be honest, as bait to get you to pay for the information in the other sections, which is a country by country guide to motorcycle touring in Europe, plus India and California and eventually maybe other places as well.
From the free section, you can make a very good guess as to whether the paid-for sections are worth paying for. You can judge our prejudices, our experience, our background, the quality of our information.
In the paid section, you get solid, reliable, well-structured information that's relevant to motorcycling. You buy it on a country by country basis, and you pay for it by the word: 50 cents (US) per thousand words. The minimum length of a country guide is about 2000 words, or USD 1 ($1.00). The maximum is over 6000 words: we have a self-imposed cap of USD 3 ($3.00) on any one country.
You can download one country, or half a dozen -- or more, up to the full number of countries (and US states) that we've listed. The site started in late 2003 with 12 countries and one state (California). These were the ones that we reckoned that most people would want to visit. More are being added all the time.
Last updated: 27/10/03
© 2003 Roger W. Hicks