Advantages And Disadvantages Of Traveling By Motorcycle

[Mila Eryomina]

In recent decades, the number of who use motorcycles as a means of transport on their adventures has increased significantly. Riders are excited about the beauty and freedom that traveling by motorcycle provides.

Although we have not yet dared to make a great motorcycle trip as the main means of transport, we have done several tests to try to find out for ourselves the advantages and disadvantages of traveling by motorcycle.

One thing is sure, however, anyone who has ever travelled by motorcycle, falls in love with the freedom that the motorcycle offers when traveling. You can stop wherever you want, load your luggage effortlessly and the motorcycle will allow you to reach places where public transport or other means of transport cannot.

On the other hand, travelling by moto also has a few negative sides. Our analysis is as follows. Hopefully, it can be useful for you to consider how to travel on future adventures.

Advantages of traveling by motorcycle

Here are the advantages of traveling by motorcycle, compared to public transport:

• Almost total freedom of schedules: You can start and finish the days whenever you want without depending on established schedules or waiting at stations.
• Freedom also to stop to take a photo whenever you want, to buy something that you have just seen in a stall, to have a coffee in a beautiful viewpoint, etc.
• Ease of moving around cities, when comparing accommodation, looking for restaurants or reaching monuments, museums or wherever you want without depending on urban transport or taxi drivers.
• Communication with people you meet on the streets or on the road is very easy by not going behind a window. In addition, in countries where it is a common means of transport, they see you in a normal way, almost as if you were one of them.
• Gasoline consumption is low, and traveling in this way is very cheap, especially in those places without public transport where you have to hire a private transport or taxi to get around.
• In those countries where the motorcycle is a frequent means of transport, it is not essential to know mechanics, as it is easy to find places to repair punctures or problems with the motorcycle. The same when filling the gas tank.
• If you have a good map, or better yet, you use an app like Maps.Me or Google Maps on your smartphone, you can independently get to almost any place without getting lost. Surely, it’s important to ask about the state of the roads on which it is intended to circulate, especially if they are small because many times the information in these applications is not entirely correct.
• Possibility of reaching places where buses or cars would not easily reach due to the conditions of the roads or tracks.

Disadvantages of traveling by motorcycle

Besides a lot of advantages, freedom and joy that travelling by motorcycle may provide, it still has some disadvantages:

• Physical fatigue of the rider, since the concentration necessary to ride for hours between heavy motorcycle traffic or tracks and roads in poor condition, at the end of the day ends up taking its toll. It is also tiring to be in the same position all the time, so it is necessary to make many stops to rest.
• Direct contact with the elements makes riding uncomfortable when it rains. We imagine that the same thing happens when it is very cold, very hot or there is a lot of dust in the environment, for example.
• A small motorcycle is not a particularly fast means of transport. You can not travel great distances in a day, at most, 80 or 100 kilometers.
• When riding your own means of transport you have to worry about choosing the best route and find out the state of the roads, apart from the fact that you have to orient yourself.
• Riding a motorcycle on the road or in the city carries the risk of accidents. Although a small motorcycle does not normally travel faster than 40 or 50 kilometers per hour, the risk of a fall (even if you go with a good helmet, long pants and closed shoes) is undeniable. Good travel insurance is essential.
• Despite the fact that gasoline consumption is low, more pollution is generated (per person) than traveling in public land transport.
• It is so comfortable and fast to move around on a motorcycle that sometimes there is a tendency to stop visiting places on foot, which in the end is the best way for anyone to get to know a place.
• You can not travel with a lot of luggage, unless you buy some suitcases or saddlebags. It is not wise to carry the backpack on your back when riding the motorcycle, so you must carry it tied on the back of the seat or between the legs. Hence, a backpack of more than 35 or 40 liters can not be carried. In the case of two people per motorcycle, it is not advisable to carry two backpacks, and in that case it’s much better to unify them in one.

With all this, you should pay attention to safety like choosing comfortable clothes, gloves, helmet. The last one should be chosen carefully. Besides, to make the riding more comfortable, reduce the distraction, you may also need to consider having a motorcycle headset. Consider all your needs to choose the best motorcycle bluetooth headset that will allow you to have calls, listen to music, communicate with the passenger and other motorcyclists, etc.

Conclusion

Traveling by motorcycle offers totally different sensations than traveling by other means of transport, especially when compared to public transport. It has some risks and difficulties, but the freedom it gives is one of the points in favor that we have especially valued. So much so that we think that our next big trip might be on a motorcycle.

[Anna Roccova]

Thank you https://vietnammotorcycletours.com/ for the experience gained and great mood in the motorcycle tour. I'm happy with everything. Good travel organization, positive, friendliness. I met new, interesting people. I recommend to everyone!