Motorbiking around Europe

If you're a biker you are probably always looking out for motorbike routes to do. Planning them is fun and the unforeseen feeds adventure, however I think you need to be a bit more careful planning them than if you were driving a car -- you don't want to be stranded on a highway with nothing around you and only stones to sleep on; any information on the route, before you've taken it, is useful.

A recent piece on the Guardian gives a list of 10 highways to bike across Europe by author of Uneasy Rider, Mike Carter. In his book, Carter writes about motorbiking 20,000 miles over 6-months to the corners of Europe, up to the Iran-Turkey border in search of love, life and answers. The article has excerpts from the recently published book on 10 of the routes he took, which are:

• The Cat and Fiddle run - A537, Buxton-Macclesfield, England

• The Amalfi Coast Road - Naples to Salerno, Italy

• The Transfagarasan Highway - Sibiu to Curtea de Arges, Transylvania, Romania

• Bergen to Geiranger, Norway

• Trabzon to Savsat, Eastern Turkey

• Furka Pass, between Gletsch and Andermatt, Switzerland

• A2, the Antrim coast road, Northern Ireland

• Bar in Montenegro to Sarajevo in Bosnia

• Saranda to Vlora, Albania

• Cabo de Gata to Granada, Spain

Worth reading should you want a ride across Europe.