A transplanted Frenchman's vintage tandem sidecars through Sonoma's wine country backroads.
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Visit WebsiteThe 5.5-hour Wine Country sidecar caravan — vintage Vespa-style tandem sidecars, French-packed picnic lunch by chef-turned-tour-guide Jérôme Ribeiro, three Sonoma Valley winery stops on backroads no other tour operator visits.
Rides By Me Classic Sidecar Tours is a category-of-one operation — Jérôme Ribeiro, a French chef and tour guide transplanted to Sonoma, runs vintage Vespa-inspired tandem sidecars through Sonoma Valley wine country backroads. Each sidecar carries two passengers in a custom-built tandem configuration with vintage helmets and two-way radios for guide commentary. The fleet is small — eight passengers maximum across multiple sidecars in convoy — and the experience is theatrical from arrival: pulling into a winery's tasting room courtyard in a 1960s-style sidecar caravan.
The standard tour is five and a half hours — Sonoma Plaza or El Pueblo Inn pickup, three winery stops on Sonoma Valley backroads chosen for small-production character and family ownership, French-style picnic lunch packed by Jérôme himself (he's a chef — the picnic is real food, not a hotel sandwich), and return to pickup point. Tasting fees are separate. The vintage Vespa aesthetic is the unique selling proposition: no other Sonoma operator offers a sidecar tour of the wine country, and the Instagram visibility of the format has built an audience among bachelorette parties, milestone birthdays, and engagement-trip travelers looking for a single most-decisive memory of the trip. Jérôme's French background — the chef training, the picnic discipline, the personal touch of running every tour himself — is the editorial signature.
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Rides By Me Classic Sidecar Tours is a category-of-one operation — Jérôme Ribeiro, a French chef and tour guide transplanted to Sonoma, runs vintage Vespa-inspired tandem sidecars through Sonoma Valley wine country backroads. Each sidecar carries two passengers in a custom-built tandem configuration with vintage helmets and two-way radios for guide commentary. The fleet is small — eight passengers maximum across multiple sidecars in convoy — and the experience is theatrical from arrival: pulling into a winery's tasting room courtyard in a 1960s-style sidecar caravan.
The standard tour is five and a half hours — Sonoma Plaza or El Pueblo Inn pickup, three winery stops on Sonoma Valley backroads chosen for small-production character and family ownership, French-style picnic lunch packed by Jérôme himself (he's a chef — the picnic is real food, not a hotel sandwich), and return to pickup point. Tasting fees are separate. The vintage Vespa aesthetic is the unique selling proposition: no other Sonoma operator offers a sidecar tour of the wine country, and the Instagram visibility of the format has built an audience among bachelorette parties, milestone birthdays, and engagement-trip travelers looking for a single most-decisive memory of the trip. Jérôme's French background — the chef training, the picnic discipline, the personal touch of running every tour himself — is the editorial signature.
The 5.5-hour Wine Country sidecar caravan — vintage Vespa-style tandem sidecars, French-packed picnic lunch by chef-turned-tour-guide Jérôme Ribeiro, three Sonoma Valley winery stops on backroads no other tour operator visits.
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