https://www.pikipikioverland.com Adventure motorcycle riding the world. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:31:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/PikiPiki-overland-motorcycle-adventure-rtw-enduro-riding-100x100.jpg https://www.pikipikioverland.com 32 32 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/how-to-choose-the-best-motorcycle-camping-setup-for-the-way-you-ride/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-choose-the-best-motorcycle-camping-setup-for-the-way-you-ride Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:24:07 +0000 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/?p=25607 Motorcycle Camping Gear: Why Ordinary Camping Gear Isn’t Enough – Podcast: We chat with Jim Martin on Adventure Rider Radio. Most riders start shopping long before they start thinking. Scroll through YouTube, Facebook or any adventure motorbike riding forum, and you’ll quickly find endless debates about the best motorcycle travel […]

The post How to Choose the Best Motorcycle Camping Setup for the Way You Ride first appeared on PikiPiki Overland.]]> https://www.pikipikioverland.com/wind-noise-is-destroying-your-hearing-every-single-ride/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wind-noise-is-destroying-your-hearing-every-single-ride Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:21:19 +0000 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/?p=25593 Most motorcycle safety gear protects you from something that might happen. Wind noise is different. It’s damaging your hearing because you’re riding. Riders spend thousands preparing for a crash and then raw-dog 117 dB of wind noise for three hours. I measured exactly that on my bike a few days […]

The post The Best Motorcycle Safety Gear Isn’t What Most Riders Think first appeared on PikiPiki Overland.]]> https://www.pikipikioverland.com/the-five-stages-of-overlanding-travel-burnout-in-the-social-media-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-five-stages-of-overlanding-travel-burnout-in-the-social-media-age https://www.pikipikioverland.com/the-five-stages-of-overlanding-travel-burnout-in-the-social-media-age/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:19:26 +0000 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/?p=25560 No Insta360, No Drone, No Post… So, Did You Even Go On a Trip? How social media pressure turns motorcycle adventure enduro travel into a job you didn’t plan for. We’ve been motorbike travelling long before social media became part of the ride. Back then, if you were adventure riding […]

The post Five Stages of Overlanding Social Media Fatigue first appeared on PikiPiki Overland.]]> https://www.pikipikioverland.com/the-five-stages-of-overlanding-travel-burnout-in-the-social-media-age/feed/ 11 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/earplugs-makes-riding-a-motorcycle-safer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=earplugs-makes-riding-a-motorcycle-safer https://www.pikipikioverland.com/earplugs-makes-riding-a-motorcycle-safer/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:16:00 +0000 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/?p=18840 Why earplugs make riding motorcycle safer and a review of the Alpine Hearing Protection Motorcycle earplugs If you want to walk around when you are old with impaired hearing and keep responding with a “Whaaat did you say?” to your kids cheating at board games, then keep riding without proper […]

The post This is why earplugs make riding motorcycles safer. first appeared on PikiPiki Overland.]]> https://www.pikipikioverland.com/earplugs-makes-riding-a-motorcycle-safer/feed/ 6 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/review-can-it-survive-real-adventure-riding-10000-km-cfmoto-450mt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-can-it-survive-real-adventure-riding-10000-km-cfmoto-450mt https://www.pikipikioverland.com/review-can-it-survive-real-adventure-riding-10000-km-cfmoto-450mt/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:52:38 +0000 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/?p=25459 CFMoto 450MT 10,000 km Review – Is This the Lightweight Adventure Bike We Asked For? After 10,000 km on the CFMoto 450MT Ibex adventure motorcycle, with roughly 8,000 km of that on rough Namibian dirt roads, corrugations, sand and properly destructive terrain, we finally feel comfortable calling this piece a […]

The post Can It Survive Real Adventure Riding? 10,000 km CFMoto 450MT first appeared on PikiPiki Overland.]]> https://www.pikipikioverland.com/review-can-it-survive-real-adventure-riding-10000-km-cfmoto-450mt/feed/ 1 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/most-common-suspension-mistakes-in-motorcycle-adventure-riding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=most-common-suspension-mistakes-in-motorcycle-adventure-riding https://www.pikipikioverland.com/most-common-suspension-mistakes-in-motorcycle-adventure-riding/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:34:53 +0000 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/?p=25431 Motorcycle Suspension Setup Tips for Adventure Riders Why Motorcycle Suspension Fails on Dirt If you ride proper dirt most of the time, you already know this. Shocks work incredibly hard. Washboard, corrugations, rocky tracks, endless gravel roads. Every ripple is a hit. Thousands of hits per hour.Your rear shock and […]

The post Most Common Suspension Mistakes in Motorcycle Adventure Riding first appeared on PikiPiki Overland.]]> https://www.pikipikioverland.com/most-common-suspension-mistakes-in-motorcycle-adventure-riding/feed/ 1 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/how-to-avoid-trouble-when-traveling-by-motorcycle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-avoid-trouble-when-traveling-by-motorcycle Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:27:26 +0000 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/?p=25374 “15 Years, Countless Miles: How PikiPiki Overland Survived the World on Motorcycles” “Fifteen years of living off motorcycles, and luckily, not a single trip-ending disaster. Michnus and Elsebie Olivier of PikiPiki Overland have crisscrossed Africa, Europe, and the Americas on their adventure bikes. Dodging the kind of breakdowns, border chaos, […]

The post How to Avoid Trouble When Traveling by Motorcycle first appeared on PikiPiki Overland.]]> https://www.pikipikioverland.com/science-says-riding-with-music-triggers-a-dopamine-high/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-says-riding-with-music-triggers-a-dopamine-high Thu, 19 Jun 2025 20:22:31 +0000 https://www.pikipikioverland.com/?p=25317 There’s a certain kind of grin that only riders know. The one that spreads across your face when you’re carving through a mountain pass, the bike just floating with you, your favourite song playing through your motorcycle helmet speakers. It’s not forced; it’s not planned. It just happens. If you […]

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