Gone Riden

November 2001 — June 2002

The long way
south.

Three riders, three motorcycles, and 29,211 kilometres through North, Central and South America.

Start the journey

A recovered travel archive, restored in 2026

29,211kilometres
32recovered weeks
3riders at the start
2001the ride begins
01 / The story

An early web travelogue

Before social feeds.
Before smartphones.
Goneriden

Gone Riden documented a motorcycle journey across North, Central and South America as it happened in 2001 and 2002. Weekly dispatches captured border crossings, breakdowns, mountain roads, small victories and the people met along the way.

The original HTML site survives here in full. This new edition gives the photographs and 32 recovered weekly entries room to breathe while keeping every original page one click away.

Read Week 1 in the original archive →
Three motorcycles stopped on a misty mountain road
Week 7 Three bikes in the rain
Two motorcycles below a steep volcanic slope
Week 24 Peru
Loaded motorcycles high in the Andes
Week 21 Into the mountains
02 / The riders

The Gone Riden crew

Martin.
Boxy.
Jamie.

Martin

Martin

Completed the full journey

Boxy

Boxy

Departed the tour on 15 April 2002

Jamie

Jamie

Departed on 31 December 2001
Rejoined on 14 April 2002

03 / The archive

Every dispatch

32 weeks
on the road.

Each entry opens in the restored original website. Weeks 30, 31 and 32 are recovered 2002 drafts whose text, featured photographs and photo-diary order were reviewed in 2026. Their photographs were recovered from a later hard-drive archive.

Preserved, not replaced

See the web
as it was.

The tables, rollovers, colours, spelling and early-2000s personality are all still there.

Enter the original site