A bit about us

Owned and run by John Griffiths and Su Downham, MOTO AVENTURES was set up in Andorra in 1996 as the result of an idea John had whilst spending two winters biking across Africa from London to Cape Town.  Born in Tanzania, John worked for the 16 years prior to Moto Aventures in the oil related diving business.  He has paramedic training and experience, and safety (a highly important issue in biking – one which is often not given sufficient attention) is one of his main concerns. His job is to plan the routes using GPS, maintain “the fleet” to very high standards; co-ordinate guides etc., and generally run all the operational side of the business.

Su has lived and worked in Andorra for over 20 years.  She speaks English, Spanish, Catalan and French fluently and has considerable experience in tourism and PR, as well as having run her own estate agency and building company in Andorra before Moto Aventures was started.  She is responsible for all the administration and legal side of the company, finding and booking tour accommodation and arrangements for meals etc., and generally making sure that all aspects of your holiday run smoothly and efficiently.

In 2005, they were joined by Adam, John’s eldest son, as a mechanic and guide, adding Danish and Swedish to their selection of languages. He is responsible for setting up our latest venture – The African safari – while still guiding the off-road tours in Morocco.

Since beginning offering our tours in Morocco we have had the assistance of our chief mechanic Houssein working on the bikes and accompanying us on all our tours. He is a native of Ouarzazarte. This year as our fleet size has increased, he has been joined by his brother Abdu. Both are very accomplished and experienced mechanics and a big asset to Moto Aventures.

In late 2006, MOTO AVENTURES AFRICA, was established in Morocco to enable us to offer more tours and spend more time there.  We have setup our main workshop base in Ouarzazarte as to date most of our tours start and finish here.  Next year we will have another workshop/base in Essaouira as we will be offering tours from Marrakech to the Atlantic, and also out of Essaouira during the summer months, to replace our European tours which we will be stopping after this year.