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.
