What this site is, and what it is not yet
Gentleman Biker is a motorcycle tour company in its pre-launch period. No departure has opened, so nothing on this site is an offer to sell a tour, a reservation, or a quotation. Dates, prices, hotels, group numbers, and itineraries go up when they are real. Until then the pages describe the routes being built and the commitments every departure will carry.
The interest list
Joining the interest list costs nothing and holds nothing. It is not a purchase, it does not reserve a place on a tour, and no card details are taken anywhere on this site. The list exists so the company can tell you when a departure opens, before the dates appear on these pages. Ask to come off it whenever you like, by reply or by writing to interest@gentlemanbiker.com, and the name goes.
A tour booking is a separate written agreement
When departures open, a booking is governed by the written terms issued with that departure: deposit and balance dates, cancellation, insurance requirements, damage and deposit terms, licence and permit conditions, and what happens if a route or a hotel has to change. Those written terms are the agreement between you and the operator. This page is not, and where the two ever appear to differ, the terms issued with your departure are the ones that count.
The journal, the photographs, and what you may do with them
The posts on this site are written by T.E. Whitaker, and the photographs are the company’s own. Both are protected by copyright. Quote a paragraph with a link back and there is no argument. Republish a post or a photograph in full, or feed the corpus to a commercial service, and there is. Ask first at interest@gentlemanbiker.com — the answer is often yes.
Reviews and recommendations are one rider’s experience
Gear reviews, hotel write-ups, and restaurant posts describe one rider’s experience of one thing at one time. A hotel changes hands, a chef moves on, a jacket gets revised. Nothing in the journal is medical, legal, mechanical, or financial advice, and none of it replaces a manufacturer’s instructions or a qualified professional. Check anything that matters against the source before you rely on it.
Riding a motorcycle carries real risk
Riding a motorcycle is dangerous. Road surface, weather, traffic, other drivers, animals, and the machine itself can injure or kill a rider, in any country, at any speed, on any tour. No route, no tour leader, no support vehicle, and no piece of protective equipment removes that risk. Nothing published here should be read as suggesting otherwise. Ride within your own skill and judgement, wear what protects you, and treat an unfamiliar road as unfamiliar.
Links to other companies’ sites
This site links to hotels, restaurants, manufacturers, retailers, and other operators. Gentleman Biker does not control those sites and is not responsible for what they publish, what they sell, or what they do with information you give them. Their own terms and privacy policies apply the moment you leave this one.
Affiliate links in the journal
Some links in the journal earn the company a commission when a reader buys through them. The affiliate disclosure sets out how that works and which programs are involved. The price you pay is never higher for having followed one.
What the site warrants, and what it does not
This website is provided as it is. Gentleman Biker works to keep it accurate and available but does not warrant that every page is free of error or that the site is never offline. To the fullest extent the law allows, the company is not liable for loss arising from use of this website or from reliance on what it posts. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
Which law governs these terms
These terms are governed by the laws of the operator’s home jurisdiction, which is stated in the terms issued with each departure. Where a dispute concerns a booked tour, the law and the forum stated in that departure’s written terms govern it.
Changes to these terms
These terms change as the company does. The first departures will bring booking terms, a payment processor, and considerably more detail than a pre-launch site needs. The revision date at the top of this page moves whenever the text does. Read it again before you book.