Guided motorcycle expeditions across Xizang (Tibet), western Sichuan, Yunnan, Xinjiang, and the ancient Silk Road - on your own bike, or one of ours.
Our travel philosophy and decades of experience take us into the most spectacular, most moving regions of China. Come and ride with us - through legendary landscapes, to places most travellers never reach. Along the way, immerse yourself in China’s many-colored cultures and meet the different peoples who call these roads home.
Greatway 提供中国最深入的摩托车骑行体验。欢迎来中国，一起骑遇美景，探索传奇之地，沉浸多彩多姿的文化，遇见不同民族的人们。
Bucket 01 · Rent here & ride
Land, collect a bike with plates, insurance and altitude tuning already sorted, and ride. Our main product - guided, on-road tours on the great paved roads, with a support 4×4 the whole way.
Bucket 02 · Bring your own
Ship your motorcycle in and cross China on your own wheels. We handle temporary import and export, Chinese plates, licence conversion, permits, and customs - the paperwork that makes a foreign-plated bike legal on Chinese roads.
Before the scenery, the paperwork
Every rider asks the same questions before they ask about the view. Here are the honest answers - and the work we do so you don't have to.
Ask us your questionRide China · 骑遇中国
Each route below is private - your group, a local travel guide, a road captain, a mechanic, and a support 4×4 carrying luggage, fuel, spares, and oxygen.
Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Permit, altitude from day one, and a Tibetan guide along the whole way. Mount Qomolangma (Everest) and Kailash are the iconic destinations.
Tibetan cultural areas Kham and southern Amdo in western Sichuan. Five schools of Tibetan Buddhism and a Bön seat, the great sutra printing house at Dege, and twenty thousand nuns at Yarchen Gar. Tagong - "the Buddha's favorite place". Danba - the most beautiful village of China. Western Sichuan sits on the great step between the Tibetan Plateau and the Sichuan Basin - a land of plunging relief and a thousand landscapes, where the elevation swings by several thousand meters. The roads coil up the mountainsides through layer after layer of vegetation, and riders call it "the motorcycle paradise you must ride once in this life." No Tibet permit needed.
Ride on the long highways. One-way rides between Chengdu (Sichuan), Kunming (Yunnan), and Lhasa (Xizang, Tibet).
Yunnan - the land "south of the colorful clouds." Start beside Erhai Lake in Dali, ride through the mists of the Nujiang gorge, cross the snow passes of Shangri-La, follow the old Tea Horse Road, and taste the essence of many cultures along the way. No Tibet permit needed.
Four seasons in a single day on the Duku highway, and the lone smoke rising over the Taklamakan. Chase the wind at the foot of the Tianshan, look up at the stars from the Pamir plateau, and let the Karakoram Highway set your pulse going. From the north to the south, grassland, gobi, desert and snow peak turn beneath your wheels - Xinjiang carves its vastness into every rider who comes. Routes in preparation from our Urumqi base - tell us your dates and we will build the ride.
Not just riding
We love riding - going far by motorcycle is the most exciting way to travel. But the point is always to explore. Our routes are designed to lead into real cultural encounters: not tourist set-pieces, but the living heritage of a five-thousand-year civilisation.
From the Potala Palace, to the seven-generation lineage of Lima bronze casting at the remote village of Maisu in western Sichuan, to the tie-dye of the Bai people in Yunnan, and to a traditional instrument workshop of the Uyghur people in Kashgar, southern Xinjiang - you ride in, and you meet it.
Passion & focus take us further
Multilingual guides - English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian. Our senior road captains have led BMW, Ducati, Honda, KTM, CFMOTO, and KOVE MOTO expeditions, and some of them are round-the-world riders. Professional field logistics, including high-altitude repair and rescue experience. With a team like this, we can go anywhere.
Road Captain
Veteran of multiple BMW & Ducati international expeditions. Bilingual.
Road Captain
Round-the-world rider. Shares the road and the stories.
Guide · Mechanic
Multi-brand, multi-model repair experience across every route.
Road Captain
Leads safely, rides hard, keeps the group together at altitude.
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From the roof of the world, to the edge of the sea
Our sister brand Nova Earth rides tropical Hainan - island roads, coastline and rainforest, warm all year round, seafood pulled from the water that morning, and the living traditions of the island’s ethnic communities. Same operator, same standards, the opposite climate. With us, you can connect anywhere to anywhere.
Discover Nova Earth · Hainan →The machines · rent here & ride
Every bike in the fleet is registered, insured, serviced by our own mechanics and altitude-tuned before you land. Pick your machine the way you'd pick your route - by what kind of ride you want it to be.
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In their words
Travellers from 10+ countries · since 1994
Filmed on tour, June 2026 - coming soon.
"Everything simply worked, without a hitch. Our guide was lovely, and our contact in Europe was always reachable and competent. We can wholeheartedly recommend this team." Translated from German
"I will recommend your agency to anyone who wants to travel to Tibet. Our guide made the trip go so well."
One ride · friends for life
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