Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25572 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-25
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Synopsis
This is a practical guide for motorcyclists taking their own bike abroad, tourists wanting to hire a bike or scooter while away, and people joining one of the growing number of all-in overseas riding tours. It covers everything from bike preparation and route planning to road safety, law, local regulations, extreme conditions, and emergencies. There is regional information about Europe, Scandinavia, America, Australasia, the Far East, and Africa.

Customer Reviews

Only consider this book if ' travelling abroad' means European Travel only
If you are travelling in europe this book is a reasonable source of information with a acceptable amount of detail regarding road laws and legal requirements, including the new EU members. However for the the rest of the world (the riding further afield section) this book is very very disappointing and big let down.

This book is 222 pages long, yet ridiculously the continents and countries that are non European only get 32 of these pages! For example the country of Canada (2nd largest country in the world with the longest transcontinental highway in the world) gets only three paragraphs and one small photo of a roadsign which barely amounts to two pages. The entire continents of Asia and Central\South America suffer the same fate with only two pages devoted to them, with only one of the pages having any 'useful' written information. Bearing in mind the quirks of the border crossings and natural hazards in Central and South America and varying currencies etc.. only having two pages for this part of the world is a joke.

I bought this book for two reasons. Firstly i bought it because i am considering travelling extensively around North America in the near future and 2. I trusted the Haynes brand to deliver a quality publication. To be honest i think i have wasted my money. I could have obtained more information about non european road laws by using google. Having read this book i feel no better prepared for non european travel then before i read it.