These beautiful shots show a trusty BMW F800GS touring a natural reserve not far from Italy’s lovely Urbino town in the Marche. The photos come from Italian Pierpaolo who describes his motorcycle tour as “incredible emotions with an all-purpose bike”. This is what summer is for!

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As Europe comes into its busy holiday season, we had to share these pics of the “20,000 pieghe” competition. It’s a European motorcycle ride across five days that starts from Pavia in Italy and goes to Sestriere. This year saw 150 motorcycles take part, all of whom hooked up at the end with the Cesana-Sestriere rally revival and its historic cars. If you’re interested in this motorcycle ‘tour’ across northern Italy, check out the pics below to see some of the scenes you can take in.

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We had to share this lovely pic of a Triumph Street Triple R parked at the top of the Furka Pass in Switzerland after a motorcycle tour through the area. The pass has an elevation of 2,436 metres and is part of a three-pass trip that travellers often take. Apparently a steam train runs the pass and it was also used as a location in the James Bond film Goldfinger, but otherwise seeing this photo, we think it’s a great place for a spot of summer motorcycling.

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The 2011 Dolomites Ride motorcycle tour has taken place with about 120 riders taking part, and here we have some photographs from the guys at Motoblog.it. There’s nothing better to encourage some summer riding than pictures of a motorcycle tour in beautiful countryside. The Dolomites tour takes in about 150 km of Italy’s majestic mountains, and other events organised by Yamaha include a Sport Riding School, test rides and demo rides. If you haven’t already done so, it is definitely time to get out your leathers.

2011 Dolomite Ride motorcycle festival

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What do you say to a tour of Italy’s lakes by motorcycle? For the lucky Italians, they can actually do that every weekend if they want. These pics from Sergio show two Ducati Multistrada bikes touring, taking in a stop by the lake. Not that we’re envious or anything as we sit in the office on a Thursday.

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Ducati Multistrada lake pics

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What would you give to be exploring the roads and offroads of Panama? In these videos from HalfThrottle, we get cool music, great landscapes and a battered Kawasaki KLR650 which keeps going the distance. The words from the man himself on the video above are:

I love riding motorcycles, any kind of motorcycle. It just so happens that right now I have a KLR650, and in my mind that means it must be the best motorcycle in the world. In time I will get a different motorcycle, and it will become the best motorcycle in the world.

This film is about loving, and riding what you have now. Stop worrying about not being able to afford your dream bike, and just enjoy this moment with whatever motorcycle you may have.

Check out more from this motorcycle tour of Panama on the Halfthrottle YouTube channel. Thanks to Ryan for the email.

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The latest milestone for Triumph has been producing the 500,000th bike off the Hinckley production line. These facilities have been producing twin and three cylinder models since 1988, and it seems fitting that the Triumph Speed Triple model that disappeared for a while, trots off the production line, representing half a million Triumphs built in the Hinckley factory.

The Hinckley production line has produced some memorable models, like the first examples of the Daytona 1000, the Speed Triple T509, the Bonneville or even the recent Daytona 675, Street Triple and Tiger 800. To celebrate the 500,000th Hinckley bike, Triumph has developed a real one-off, special edition.

The bike reflects the Union Jack with a blue background and red details decorated by hand, and accompanying Triumph accessories. The Speed Triple will travel the UK with comic Ross Noble on board, and given the video introduction below, it could be a fun trip (he rather dangerously says he “will be guided by you”). When it gets back from its tour, the special Triumph Speed Triple will be auctioned off for Riders for Health.

Triumph Speed Triple 500,000 Hinckley special edition

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There is some beautiful countryside to be seen around the parts of Slovenia and Croatia, with hilly landscapes finally giving way in Croatia to beautiful seaside views. These guys went for a motorcycle tour from Italy through Slovenia to Croatia, with 22 km of soft, offroad riding. The bikes in the picture are a BMW F800 GS, a Ducati Multistrada 1200 and a 1995 Aprilia Pegaso.

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Motorcycle tour Croatia and Slovenia

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This motorcycle pic comes from the guys at Motoblog.it and shows a Ducati Multistrada 1100 parked beside hay fields in Germany on a summer European motorcycle tour. With spring already here and some great weather coming with it, bike fans are dusting off their beloved ones and polishing them up for some summer riding. Welcome back summer!

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The Marley brothers, sons of reggae legend Bob Marley, recently completed an Africa motorcycle road trip during the 2010 World Cup. Their adventures, called the Marley Africa Road Trip, were filmed by David Alexanian and the Elixir Films crew, who also worked with Ewan McGregor on his Long Way Round and Long Way Down series.

The Marley brothers, Ziggy, Rohan and Robbie, completed their road trip 30 years after Bob Marley’s legendary motorcycle tour through Zimbabwe to celebrate that country’s new found independence. Check out the trailer above of their South African tour and whatever you think, it looks like they were prepared for fun.

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So while we’re enjoying the last throws of summer in Europe and hopefully we’ll get another few months of riding in yet, this photo is a reminder of what can happen when you leave your summer alpine motorcycle excursion to late. This group of intrepid Italians took to the legendary Stelvio Pass, only to find it got a little chilly up there.

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Source | Motoblog.it

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Forget Ducati at Pikes Peak, where the new Ducati Multistrada 1200 will really be put to the test is a world tour. Italian Paolo Pirozzi, from the Ducati Dreams Club in Naples, is taking a new Multistrada across 90,000 km of Europe, Russia, Asia, Australia, America and North Africa, before going back to Borgo Panigale with his stories.

It seems nearly everyone these days can do motorcycle world tours and while this one won’t be strictly a road test, it’s certainly enough to prove whether the new Multistrada can hack it or not, giving plenty of publicity to Ducati in the meantime. If you’re interested in following the adventure, check out the Ducati website.

Source | Motoblog.it

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