Your route isn’t drawn yet.

Most motorbike tours start with a fixed itinerary. Ours start with a blank map south of the equator and one question: what do you want to see?

What do you want to ride to? Pick a few.

Your ride so far

A ride through Namibia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, chasing desert, waterfalls and birdlife.

Plan this ride with us
Equator 10°S20°S30°S 20°E30°E40°E Namibia South Africa Zimbabwe Zambia Botswana Eswatini Mozambique Tanzania Sossusvlei dunes Lesotho highlands Victoria Falls Lower Zambezi Lake Malawi Zanzibar
Example stops only. Your real route is planned around you.

We don’t sell tours. We plan one ride, for one rider or group, and nobody else rides it.

From a blank map to a full tank

  1. 1

    Tell us what you want

    What you want to see, how long you’ve got, your riding experience and who’s coming.

  2. 2

    We draw your route

    A ride designed from scratch, using roads and tracks we’ve ridden ourselves.

  3. 3

    We source everything

    Bikes, places to stay and whatever else the ride needs, sorted before you land.

  4. 4

    You ride

    Turn the key and go. Your pace, your stops, your Africa.

Eleven countries, all ridden by us first

We plan from experience, not brochures. Your route can cross one of these or as many as you like.

  • South Africa
  • Namibia
  • Botswana
  • Lesotho
  • Eswatini
  • Zimbabwe
  • Zambia
  • Malawi
  • Mozambique
  • Tanzania
  • Zanzibar
The founder of Tailored Tracks Africa standing by his motorbike on a red-dirt road, with Kilimanjaro behind him
On the road below Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Planned by a rider who’s been there

I’m [YOUR NAME]. My love of bikes started when I was five, standing on my dad’s Vespa with my hands on the handlebars as we rode.

In my twenties I raced off-road in South Africa: the Toyota Desert Race, the Roof of Africa and enduros. Between races I explored southern Africa by bike, and in the 1990s I rode into the Okavango swamps.

Most recently I rode from Johannesburg to Mount Kilimanjaro, where this photo was taken, then on to Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam.

Now I plan rides for other people the way I’d want one planned for me: around what you want to see, on roads I know.

Start drawing your route

Tell us a little about the ride you have in mind. We’ll come back with ideas for a route that’s yours alone.

We’ll only use your details to reply to your enquiry.