Forget Icelandic volcanoes and check out the adventure motorcycle opportunities on this island in the middle of the north Atlantic.

About 10 years ago I picked up my backpack and flew to Iceland with a couple of mates. We took a bus to the northern coast of the island disembarked and then started to hike through the interior to the southern coast.

Along the way we had to cross huge expanses of wilderness and swollen glacier melt rivers and at the time I thought 'I'd love to do this on my motorcycle'.

In the following video keep a look out for the river crossing with the camp site in the background, this is the start of the The Landmannalaugar Trail which heads over to Thorsmork and then up and over what is now an infamous volcano, Eyjafjallajokull. This is where we finished our walk and stood on top of the volcano which is now causing all the air travel chaos.

Last weeks video showed you what it was like to ride up Erg Chebbi, the biggest dunes in Morocco, on a motorcycle. All great fun but what happens when it works the other way, when those dunes decide it's pay back time and decide to ride all over you.

You'll not come across sandstorms that often, especially on a bimble through the Cotswolds, but there's always a possibility that you'll encounter one when riding through the Middle East and North African countries such as Morocco. Many years ago on a hike through the Sahara with three mates I got caught out in a sandstorm during the night, having viewed this video I'm glad it wasn't during the day. If I'd seen this monster coming my way, I'd have bricked it....

A few weeks back I spent 7 days bashing through the mountains and deserts of Morocco on a 1500kms off road tour with the motorcycle adventure company Motoaventure. One of the highlights of the trip was riding to the top of the highest dune in the Erg Chebbi - Erg Chebbi is what most people think of when they visualise the Sahara; mile after mile of huge sand dunes.

It would be fair to say that when you're sitting on your bike looking up at this huge pile of sand it's hard to think anything other than 'no way will a motorcycle make it up there'. Amazingly, it's a lot easier to ride to the top than you'd think. Power on, and on, and on and don't let those revs drop until you're safely on the top ridge.

If it's called Hell's Gate and it happens to be in the jungles of Borneo then I want to ride there. This weeks video shows a bunch of locals heading into the undergrowth on jungle trails and it sure looks like fun to me.

The Hells Gate trail is in the Malaysian sector of Borneo and finishes at Kota Kinabalu within sight of the highest mountain on the Island, Mt Kinabalu. You may recall the national media reporting a few years ago on a group of Brit soldiers who went missing on an expedition to descend the impenetrable Lows Gulley which leads off Mt Kinabalu. Lows Gully is just a couple of valleys over from where these guys are riding – but not somewhere you'd want to go with a bike.