50 Best Rock Songs About Riding a Motorcycle
Best Motorcycle Rock Tracks for Open Road Escapes
There’s a very specific kind of headspace that kicks in when the engine starts rumbling under you. The road stretches out in that unending way that feels both freeing and slightly off-balance. Wind cuts through the noise in your helmet, and for a second, you’re not thinking about the next exit or the next day. The right song hits, and suddenly the whole thing syncs. It might be something loud enough to drown out the traffic or steady enough to match the pulse in your hands. The best tracks don’t hype the ride—they fall into its rhythm.
It’s not always clean or cinematic. Sometimes you’re idling at a light, sweat collecting under your jacket, the city swallowing your reflection in glass. Sometimes it’s night, no GPS, the road hums like static, and the track playing feels too heavy for the moment but you let it roll anyway. A few of these songs aren’t even tied to motorcycles at all, but they carry that motion, that restlessness, the weight of speed and pause all tangled together. They belong on playlists that mix pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, where the mood shifts without warning and every chord feels like a different kind of road.
Not every ride means freedom. Some feel like running away, others like finding a new version of stillness that only happens at sixty miles an hour. These songs stretch across all that space and noise, fitting into the strange in-betweens of every trip. Here are the best rock songs for riding a motorcycle.
Top 10 Motorcycle Riding Rock Songs
1. 'Born to Be Wild' by Steppenwolf
2. 'Bad to the Bone' by George Thorogood & The Destroyers
3. 'Bat Out of Hell' by Meat Loaf
4. 'Highway Star' by Deep Purple
5. 'Motorcycle Man' by Saxon
6. 'Hell Bent for Leather' by Judas Priest
7. 'Ride to Live, Live to Ride' by Twisted Sister
8. 'Bad Motor Scooter' by Montrose
9. 'Motorcycle Emptiness' by Manic Street Preachers
10. 'Ezy Ryder' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Hard Driving Freedom Rock Songs #11 to 20
11. 'Iron Horse / Born to Lose' by Motörhead
12. 'Wanted Dead or Alive' by Bon Jovi
13. 'Ride the Wind' by Poison
14. 'Radar Love' by Golden Earring
15. 'Runnin’ Down a Dream' by Tom Petty
16. 'Roll Me Away' by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
17. 'Free Bird' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
18. 'Highway to Hell' by AC/DC
19. 'Girls Girls Girls' by Mötley Crüe
20. 'Ride Like the Wind' by Christopher Cross
Classic Highway Rock Songs for Biking #21 to 30
21. 'Slow Ride' by Foghat
22. 'Back in Black' by AC/DC
23. 'Motorcycle Mama' by Neil Young
24. 'Midnight Rider' by The Allman Brothers Band
25. 'Silver Dream Machine' by David Essex
26. 'Motorbikin'' by Chris Spedding
27. 'Magic Carpet Ride' by Steppenwolf
28. 'Riders On The Storm' by The Doors
29. 'Motorcycle Drive By' by Third Eye Blind
30. 'La Grange' by ZZ Top
Open Road Rock Songs for Motorcyclists #31 to 40
31. 'I Can't Drive 55' by Sammy Hagar
32. 'Motorcycle' by Love and Rockets
33. 'Ace of Spades' by Motörhead
34. 'Little Honda' by The Hondells
35. 'The Devil's Chasing Me' by Reverend Horton Heat
36. 'Thunder Road' by Bruce Springsteen
37. 'Rollin' and Tumblin'' by Canned Heat
38. 'King of the Road' by Roger Miller
39. 'Panama' by Van Halen
40. 'On the Road Again' by Willie Nelson
Road Trip and Biker Rock Songs #41 to 50
41. 'Livin' On A Prayer' by Bon Jovi
42. 'The Passenger' by Iggy Pop
43. 'Going Up The Country' by Canned Heat
44. 'Turn the Page' by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
45. 'Life in the Fast Lane' by Eagles
46. 'Fire Your Guns' by AC/DC
47. 'Gimme All Your Lovin'' by ZZ Top
48. 'Wheels of Steel' by Saxon
49. 'Painkiller' by Judas Priest
50. 'I've Been Everywhere' by Johnny Cash
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