About Us

Founded on adventure, driven by passion.

The Founders

Driven by a passion for biking, Bike Turkey was founded by two partners who shared a vision – to share one of the best adventure ‘biking playgrounds’ of the world with other bikers.

Riding together over the years, they have built up knowledge of the some of the least known and yet, best biking roads of Turkey. With an appreciation of quality hotels, fine cuisine and quality bikes, their combined passion and philosophy offers bikers an unparalleled experience in a land visited by many and yet, explored by relatively few.
Armağan Ak
Co-founder and biking fanatic. Armağan has been riding ‘obsessively’ for more than 30 years. He has personally owned more than 34 bikes to date. Trained to an advanced level of road and track riding, he is a regular at the California Superbikes School and holds a racing licence. Languages: Turkish, English. Current personal bikes: BMW R 1200 GS, Kawasaki KLX 250, Triumph 800XC.
Robert Khodadad
Native Englishman and co-founder, Robert got his first bike when he was 17. Today he is a British Institute Of Advanced Motorists (IAM) qualified observer, ADAC, CVT Advanced Instructor and Advanced Riding Academy advisor/trainer. When not riding on the road, he heads into the mountains on his KTM for a little fun! Robert a photographer and former Television Director, spends much of his spare time on his other passion, photography. Personal bikes BMW R 1200 GS and KTM 450 EXC.

Our Team

Within Bike Turkey we believe we have an outstanding team and one of the most highly qualified groups of guides of any touring company in the world today. All of us are highly experienced riders, most holding the coveted British Institute Of Advanced Motorists (IAM) riders certificate and most having an instructor’s qualification in advanced road, track or control riding and all are trained in first aid. All are multilingual and between us we speak seven languages – we all speak fluent English. We are all very ‘user friendly’ and we are all dedicated to a high level of customer service, safety and enjoyment.

Which guide leads which tour is dependent on a number of factors including, the nationalities of the guests, which languages they speak and the specific requirements of each guest and each tour. It is for this reason we like to learn as much about each guest at the time of booking so we can plan accordingly. If you are a returning guest and you request a particular guide, we will do our best to accommodate you.
Burak Ercan
Riding since he was 14, Burak trained with the American Midwest Police Motorcycle Training Group and then gained the coveted Japanese police motorcycle certificate. He then worked at the BMW Motorcycle Academy as an advanced instructor for 6 years. Burak has guided groups to many parts of the world and appears on national TV as a motorcycle test editor. Hobbies – anything with adrenalin. Languages: English, French, Turkish and Japanese! Personal bikes: BMW R 1200 GS, Husaberg FE550E.
Andrew Longshaw
Englishman, Andrew has been a regular visitor to Turkey since 2004 as a guide and instructor. No stranger to travel, Andrew has lived in six different countries and ridden in many more. He has instructed for the Motorcycle Safety Foundation USA, and The British Motorcyclist Federation. He has been British IAM senior observer for more than 12 years. Hobbies riding! Personal bike: BMW R 1200 GS.
Jon Taylor
Native Englishman and ex-British police motorcyclis, Jon has ridden extensively around the world and has been a regular visitor to Turkey for more than 10 years. A highly qualified instructor, Jon has been teaching advanced rider training in Turkey for more than 10 years. In the UK he is staff examiner with the Institute Of Advanced Motorists and examiner for RoSPA. Jon has also been an instructor at the legendary Nürburgring racetrack in Germany. Personal bikes BMW R 1200 GS, BMW S1000RR and Honda ST 1300 Pan European.
Kazim Uzunoglu
Biking since he was in shorts Kazim gave up his career in number crunching to pursue a life of freedom on two wheels. One of our most experienced guides, Kazim has lead tours throughout Turkey and more than 22 other countries. Languages: English, German, Turkish and a bit of anywhere he tours. Personal Bikes: He has 5 including a 1952 BMW R51/3 and no car!
Levent Vardar
Levent works as a specialist tour consulatant together with our travel handling agents Peninsula Tours – one of Turkey’s largest tour operators. An avid biker, his specialist knowledge of bike touring in Turkey is invaluable. Biking since 1995, he uses all his spare time to promote training and touring on behalf of several motorcycle groups and his current personal biking project “Two Wheels and Wagon Wheels” follows the Turkish industrial heritage via all the railroads and stations of Turkey. Personal bike BMW R1200 GS.