Andrés Sile: the Andalusian riding around the world on his motorcycle

28 de August de 2026

Almost everyone who rides a motorcycle has dreamed, at some point, of dropping everything and riding around the world on two wheels. Andrés Sile, a rider from Sanlúcar in his early thirties, is one of the few who’s actually dared to do it. Since June 2024 he’s been crossing the planet on his Aprilia Tuareg 660, and his journey already adds up to more than two years and dozens of countries. If you don’t know him yet, let us introduce him — and tell you why at Gas&Fun we feel his adventure is a little bit our own too.

Andrés Sile with his motorcycle at sunset during his round-the-world motorcycle trip

Photo: Instagram @andres_sile

Who is Andrés Sile?

His name is Andrés Jiménez, though everyone knows him by his traveler name, Andrés Sile. He’s a photographer, born and raised in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz). Before getting on the bike he had an office job that, as he’s said himself, ended up boring him: tired of dreaming about adventure without actually living it, he decided to leave everything behind and make his hometown the starting point of a one-of-a-kind journey.

A starting point steeped in history

On June 16, 2024, he set off from Sanlúcar de Barrameda on an Aprilia Tuareg 660 loaded up to 300 kilos (with reinforced suspension to handle the weight) and a tent as his only roof. It’s not a starting point chosen at random: Sanlúcar was the port from which the Magellan-Elcano expedition sailed and to which it returned more than 500 years ago, the first circumnavigation of the globe in history. Andrés wants to complete his own version of that feat — this time on a motorcycle.

A route that’s already close to two laps around the planet

Since leaving Andalusia, Andrés has crossed Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and China, continued through Southeast Asia (Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand), and from there shipped the bike to North America: Alaska, Canada, the United States and Mexico, including a stretch through Baja California. Last week he was already in El Salvador, making his way into Central America.

Andrés Sile riding on a dirt track during his round-the-world motorcycle trip

Photo: Instagram @andres_sile

The road hasn’t exactly been comfortable. In interviews and podcasts, Andrés has described moments as extreme as being questioned by Russian security services while crossing the country, air-raid sirens, encounters with forced-labor camps, or having to navigate bribes in Laos — the kind of stories you only get when the journey is real, not a postcard version of one.

Bound for Route 66… with his father

And there’s a special stop coming up: in his latest video, published this very week on his YouTube channel, Andrés announced that he’s going to ride the legendary Route 66 in the United States… together with his father. A short stretch of company, after more than two years riding almost entirely alone, that promises to be one of the most emotional chapters of the whole trip.

Andrés Sile with his father on Route 66, United States

Photo: Instagram @andres_sile

More than two years on the road, hundreds of thousands following along

Andrés documents every stretch of the trip on YouTube, where he uploads a new video every Sunday, and on Instagram (@andres_sile), where he’s already gathered more than 240,000 followers. Several brands in the industry have signed on as sponsors to help him sustain an adventure that, in his own words, runs mostly on about 30 euros a day, a lot of camping, and a fair amount of common sense.

Why we feel a connection with him at Gas&Fun

Andrés is Andalusian, like us, and his journey sums up exactly the spirit we try to convey at Gas&Fun: the motorcycle as a tool for freedom, not just a means of transport. And there’s one detail we especially like: just like at Gas&Fun, whenever he can, Andrés chooses the off-road or dirt option over asphalt — the same philosophy we bring to riding.

You don’t need to ride around the world to understand that feeling — a morning ride through the Sierra de Grazalema or the Los Alcornocales Natural Park is enough to recognize it. That’s why we wanted to introduce him, in case you didn’t know him yet, and encourage you to follow his adventure from here, with the pride of knowing he’s one of us too.

Andrés Sile crossing a river on his motorcycle during an off-road stretch of his round-the-world trip