About Us

Everything started in 2015, when Bill hired Claudio to lead his motorcycle tours in Italy.

In 2018, Bill had the idea to offer also Miata tours in Italy, and Claudio was his natural choice to lead them. The first Miata Tour was held in Tuscany and Umbria in 2019, and many others followed.

In 2023 Claudio established his own fleet of MX-5s. This allowed to offer new tours in Italy and Europe.

In 2025 Bill, who is vaguely planning to retire in a distant future, sold Blue Strada to Claudio, while remaining as Founder and Marketing Manager.

In the meantime, Wayne entered Blue Strada as IT and E-Marketing Manager and quickly became a fundamental part of it. 

Theese guys have a lot of fun together, and their hard work and enthusiasm make each Blue Strada Tour an unforgettable experience.

Founder & Marketing Manager

Start with someone who has been enamored with motorcycles since the age of 12, add in an extensive professional background in the motorcycle and hospitality industry, finish it off with a love of exploring places somewhat off the beaten path, and you have the recipe for a person destined to start a company like Blue Strada Tours.

Riding motorcycles has been a part of Bill’s life as early as an adventurous young boy back in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa. His first motorcycle was not a motorcycle at all, but a Whizzer Sportsman with a belt drive and no gearbox. The Whizzer lit up Bill’s life and as a result, motorcycles, racing, and riding have been his passion for the last 50+ years.

Throughout his life, the motorcycle industry presented Bill with exciting career opportunities. Executive marketing positions with Husqvarna Motorcycles, Bell Helmets, and ATK Motorcycles allowed him to do something he loved while earning a living. Like any successful person who enjoys a challenge, Bill eventually wanted to branch out and try something on his own. Along with two other partners, Bill launched two new companies—MCM Engine Technologies and Moto Sport Panniers. Both businesses were very specialized and gave him the chance to develop a market for new high performance, environmentally friendly engine technology and exceptional quality touring luggage.

It was while he lived in Southern California that Bill became known for organizing fun and exciting tours. The tours were to such places as Laguna Seca in Monterey, California to see the best road races in the USA and Indianapolis, Indiana to take in the only F1 race held in the United States. After he and his wife, Debbie, moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, exploring the Southeast and once again organizing rides seemed like the natural thing for this motorcycle enthusiast to do; the fantastic roads, scenery, and Southern hospitality were too good not to share.

Owner

Claudio was born in 1966 in Tuscany, has spent his life in Italy, France and the US and now lives with his wife Joyce between Rome and San Diego, CA.

After earning a master’s degree in Economics, he has been for a long time a business process engineer and manager. But his real passion were engines. Proud biker since 1980, over the years he came to understand that getting the most out of cars and motorcycles and sharing this passion with people from all over the World was his real mission. In 2009 he started leading car and motorcycle groups and never stopped since.

Besides, in 2011 he founded and started leading Safe Riders, a renown motorcycle safe riding school based in Rome, Italy, where he leads a team of instructors and has personally trained over 1000 bikers.

He is also the author of several successful books on motorcycle and car safe driving and an expert of road safety.

Claudio believes that safety and spirited driving can live together, and professional training is exactly what is required to achieve this. That is why a tour under his lead and care is always a rewarding and unforgettable experience.

Happily married to Joyce, he spends his leisure time writing classical music and doing track days in a Miata.

IT & E-Marketing Manager

Wayne has been riding motorcycles since he was 17, and is a Miata/Roadster owner and enthusiast. He and his wife were on the inaugural Miata tour of Tuscany and he has been a Blue Strada fan ever since. He has been working in IT for 34 years and since 2025 took on the IT/web development duties at Blue Strada. Besides motorcycling and driving, Wayne is an avid sailor.

Guest Liaison

Joyce always aspired to travel and enjoyed being the executive assistant to the Director of Meetings & Events at Traveltrust in San Diego. When she retired, she toured Southern Italy on her first ever motorcycle tour—a life changer! She now lives mostly in Rome, and zoom-zooms in a red MazdaSpeed when visiting California family for the holidays.

Tour Leader, Fleet Manager

Mario is a qualified on- and off-road  motorbike riding instructor who has led groups on motorbikes all his life. Mario also hosts our Miatas garage under his house.

Tour Leader

Francesco, with his profound knowledge of motorcycles and cars, is an excellent tour leader and a great photographer as well.