Norway Motorcycle Adventure Guide:
Routes, Planning & Daily Ride Stories
Norway by Motorcycle 🇳🇴
Norway is one of the greatest motorcycle adventures on earth. Endless fjords, towering waterfalls and some of the most spectacular roads a rider can experience. In 2025, we rode from the UK to the Arctic Circle. Then traveled up to Nordkapp. We explored the best roads Norway has to offer.
On this page you’ll find:
- Our full Norway motorcycle route
- Planning tips for riding Norway
- Day-by-day ride stories
- The best roads we discovered along the way
This guide brings together all of our Norway ride reports, planning tips and lessons from the road.
Norway’s diverse weather conditions will be a great test for our riding gear. This challenge will be valuable practice for our equipment as well.
Planning the Adventure
Things we considered at the start of our planning
- How long did we want to take off work
- What in the ideal world did we want to see
A fairly easy decision in that we agreed on taking 2 weeks holiday. On our bucket list was
- Lysebotn Road – With 27 Hairpins
- Atlantic Ocean Road
- Trollstigen (The Troll Ladder)
- Arctic Circle
- A great photo at Nordkapp
Next was to prepare a rough route to include our bucket list places, it was starting to look possible. The next job was to avoid Toll Roads and highways/Motorways. Then, we divided the distance by the days we had available. This gave us a daily mileage and approximate time for riding the bikes. Easy! or was it?
Total distance was 5400 miles (8690 km). We had 16 days available to us. This meant we needed to ride 337 miles a day, every day! We would ride over 8 hours daily. Then, we would add time for fuel stops, coffee stops, and comfort breaks. It would be 10-11 hours between campsites.
How could we reduce the distance & still see what we wanted to & still avoid Main roads? Well here is how we did it.
We left work Friday rode to get an overnight ferry from Harwich to Netherlands. This saved us 150 miles which didn’t eat into our holiday entitlement. Then with the overnight ferry Saturday morning we was in Europe ready to go.
Next we planned the trip around a bank holiday, we don’t work bank holidays. So now we have 17 days not 16. Plus on the Bank holiday Monday, there was an overnight ferry back to the UK. It docked at 0630. This gave us time to clear customs and get to work. Saving us another 150 miles off our trip days
So what did this look like?
- Mileage in Europe 5060 (8143 km)
- Full days in Europe 17
- Mileage per day 297
All of a sudden this is now looking manageable, an endurance challenge, but we can do this!
Norway Adventure: Planning a 2025 Motorcycle Tour
The Route
Our 17-day 5400 mile motorcycle adventure took us from Cambridgeshire to the northernmost point of Europe, Nordkapp. The route covered fjords, mountains, Arctic tundra and some of the most famous motorcycle roads in the world.
From the UK we took the overnight ferry from Harwich in Essex to Hook of Holland. This service is run by Stena Line. I doesn’t sail until 2300 which was perfect for us to catch after work. Sleeping while crossing the North Sea is a fantastic way to start an adventure. You wake up fresh and ready to attack Europe.
From here it’s a natural progression to Denmark through Germany.
Harwich → Holland → Denmark → Norway
The Adventure Begins – Norway 2025
Norway Ride Diary
“Norway Through Our Visor”
Day 1 – Hook of Holland to Germany
Day 3 – Kristiansand to Forsand
Day 7 – Malvik to Sandnessjøen
Day 8 – Sandnessjøen to Lødingen
Best Motorcycle Roads in Norway
- Trollstigen (The Troll Ladder)
- Atlantic Ocean Road
- Lysebotn Road – With 27 Hairpins
- Geiranger to Dalsnibba
- The Arctic Route to Nordkapp
These roads are famous worldwide for riders. Norway’s fjords, waterfalls and winding mountain passes create some of Europe’s most spectacular riding landscapes.
Tips for Riding a Motorcycle in Norway
- Watch your speed – Speed limits are low and heavily enforced
- Ferries are part of most routes – Sign up to FerryPay for automatic payments
- Tunnels are everywhere – check out Lærdal Tunnel 24.51 km long
- Fuel stops can be far apart in the north. Don’t panic. Just fill up, even if you don’t think you need to.
Norway actually has hundreds of road tunnels and many ferry crossings, which are part of normal travel around the fjords.
This trip was featured in Motorcycle News
