The Tuscan Tripinar is a week long trip to grow your riding and travel skills in Italy. A week long trip to grow your riding and travel skills. Break into small groups of 3 to 4 riders according to desired speed. FREEDOM OF PACE. No being frustrated by following some slow tour guide or being pushed beyond your limits trying to keep up. Every rider gets a radio com unit and a GPS with an array a great local routes. Trip package includes access to Yamaha Champions Riding School Champ U online course to help you prepare. YCRS certified coaches join the trips to give you live feedback on the road. Your skills grow exponentially here as you take on challenges no parking lot drill can offer and no race track can replicate. You'll learn but more important...it's so f@cking fun!

Leod Escapes has partnered with our friends at Yamaha Champions Riding School and our friends at the Motorcycles and Misfits Podcast to give you a trip that is more than a vacation, at a price you can afford, in a time frame that's easier for working schedules. You learn how to travel by motorcycle. You grow your riding skills. You get to feel the road at a pace you enjoy. You will get faster and safer with experience. Leod doesn't cheat you by charging an exorbitant price if you want to bring a passenger. You get to ride, eat and experience Europe like a European on vacation not some ignorant tourist. So join us and "Ride the Dream".

We arrive in Rome. We encourage you to come a day or two early to let your luggage catch up. Explore the "Eternal City". We have loads of tips on what to do in Rome. From how to do the must see sites right but more importantly learn how this modern city integrates it's epic past with modern life. Then we are off to Tuscany. You'll be placed in a group of 3 or 4 riders according to your desired pace. Everyone has com units and a GPS. No one will get left behind. Your squadron supports each other. Your instructors will keep track of everyone on What'sApp and we are ready to lend of hand if you need it... but you'll learn, you can do this. Our coaches are standing by to work with you on your ride and give you real time feedback on your riding skills. Our hotel in Tuscany is in a small resort town, not a tourist trap. You'll navigate Italian life and find the tasty spots. Each day in Tuscany there will be an array of routes for you to choose from. Will you dodge the tourists around the famous towers of San Gimignano? Don't worry we know where the hidden motorcycle only parking is located. Maybe you are a MotoGP fan and always wanted to visit Valentino Rossi's home town of Tavulia? We know where you can look down on his ranch and the VR46 training ground. Chase the curves of the Chianti region and walk the circuit of the Palio in Sienna. Grab an ice cream in the little plaza in Vinci and sit at the feet of one of Leonardo's greatest sculptures. We encourage you to create your own routes before we go. You'll have instruction and homework before you go that will allow you to create your own dream day. The hill towns of Anghari, Pienza, Volterra and Montalcino call, which ones will you go to? Leod Escapes has been doing tours in Italy since 2015, so we have some favorite spots. Our hidden lunch stop in Radicofani where no tourist bus can go. The local rider gathering spots like Passo del Muraglione or Lo Scoiattolo (The Squirrel) bar and gelato spot high above lake Trasimeno. Whenever we do tours in Italy people often come to "see" but they return home with memories of places, people and experiences they didn't expect. What will be yours? At the end of the week we'll return to Rome on another fun route before you fly home. You'll return home with not only great memories of Italy but increased riding skills and probably some new traveling skills.

BMW F900R

Ducati Scrambler 800

BMW F800GS

Moto Guzzi V7

Ducati Monster 797

Lots of upgrades available but bike availability changes all the time so reserve early

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We always recommend you come a day or two early just to make sure your luggage catches up to you and to adapt to the time difference. Plus who can't use a few extra days in Rome. Grab a cab from the airport and we'll see you at the Hotel. Let us know if you want to come early and would like some extra night reserved for you. You'll get lots of local tips on Rome from us as well so don't worry. You'll have great ideas on how to walk off that jet lag... or maybe go Roma style and rent a scooter. Arrival day we'll meet for a riders meeting and get the com units sorted out. That night we'll head to one of our favorite local trattoria's that makes the best Cacio e Pepe.

Today we pick up our bikes and head out by squadron. Few people have heard of the Italian region of Lazio but it what connects Rome to Tuscany with dozens of great little back roads. Your route is loaded on your GPS and you're off. We'll escape the traffic of Rome relatively quickly (reverse commute). Now Italy will start to become real to you. Gone are the tourists and the velvet ropes, you are free. Adapt to your bikes handling and brakes because you've got some fun stuff coming already. Our lunch stop is the small hill town of Radiconfani. Yes that's where we are going right there in the picture. What you don't see is the incredible view of the valley below. Tonight we get to our home in Tuscan town of Chianciano Terme. It's been a spa town for centuries. Our idea of "rejuvenation" involves throttle twisting rather than hot water but it sure might feel good at the end of a long day of riding.

It's time! You've done your fresh Italian breakfast included with your hotel. It's time for your Squadron to pick a route and head out. Can't decide? We've got a good route that will take you through the hills and curves to a lunch stop in Greve in Chianti with a stop in Siena in the afternoon. Afterwards there is a fun ridge line run through the hills that will take you back home.  It's a good medium range route with plenty of time for, photos, coffee and gelato. Tonight we start sampling the local restaurants, let's compare our findings that evening at the hotel bar.

Yesterday you got used to your bike. Today you might be ready for something a bit more challenging. What route will you choose today? Tavulia? Volterra? How about a lonely curvy run to Passo Muraglione a favorite with local riders in Italy. The route is loaded in your GPS.  It will be a full day but will certainly take you far off the tourist trail to where only local riders go.  Be sure to grab a sticker. Loop around the Apennine Mountains and then head south again. You're never far away from a coffee stop. Italy runs on espresso. Just remember no Cappuccino's allowed after 11am. Share stories tonight at dinner.

OK! Where to today? Maybe it's time to try your own route that we had you build. By now you know how to recognize a good restaurant. You're starting to figure out Italian gas station machines. How about a run to the west over the tiny mountain towns all the way to the coast. No tourist bus ever goes here. Perhaps you'll hear about other routes that other squadrons have done on previous days. By now you've got this down, go explore and have fun.

It's time to pack everything back into your side cases. Today we are all on the same route but we'll leave at different times to space things out a bit. Our first stop is a special city on top of a giant rock, Orvieto. Grab your coffee and be sure to grab a photo of the Duomo, it's amazing. We continue south to see Civita di Bagnoregio, a lone village perched a top an isolated bluff, it's a little touristy but worth it. We've got some potential lunch stops in charming old villages in Lazio. We finally return to Rome, again reverse commute and get ready for our farewell dinner at a local butcher shop.

Hopefully you can arrange an afternoon flight as you'll probably want to sleep in. More important than all the fun you had is you've learned the lesson that riding in Europe isn't that hard and you can do it yourself... it's just more fun with friends.